Way more than an everyday interest in IP
On 30 June 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States (Supreme Court) handed down its decision in United States Patent And Trademark Office, Et. Al, Petitioners v. Booking.Com B.V. This decision considers whether booking.com is protectable as a trade mark in the United States. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), who had read more…
The interference action between the University of California (UC) and Broad Institute (Broad) has seemingly come to an end, with the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Court (CAFC) affirming that the patent claims that had been granted to Broad in relation to its CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing patents are separately patentable from the claims of a patent application made by UC. read more…
The United States Government, acting through the United States Postal Service (USPS) has been ordered to pay US $3.5 million for copyright infringement after accidentally using a replica Statue of Liberty on its 2011 Forever Stamp. The creator of the replica sculpture, Robert S. Davidson, brought a claim against the United States for infringing his read more…
We all love a good post about the Kardashians (see here). Last time we blogged about the Jenner sisters (Kendall and Kylie) applying for trade mark applications in the US for their first names, as well as the phrase “Kendall and Kylie”. Well, since our last post, the USPTO accepted the application and hot-pants-Kylie (Minogue) has read more…
That selfie stick might actually be a wise investment – after all, your next Instagram post could be worth thousands. US artist Richard Prince’s latest exhibition, ‘New Portraits’, is a series of printed screenshots of other people’s Instagram photos. The going price for each piece? A cool US$90,000 (roughly A$115,000). The amount the original Instagram read more…
Question: What do these things have in common? a snowman loses his carrot nose, and it slides out to the middle of a frozen pond; the snowman is on one side of the pond and an animal who covets the nose is on the other; the characters engage in a contest to get to the read more…