Erik K Pelton

APRIL 7, 2021

More and more businesses are using Amazon to sell their products. In this segment, Erik discusses some of these recent changes made by Amazon, and the impact for trademark applicants and registrants seeking to use the Brand Registry to promote their products. The post Amazon Brand Registry Update for Trademark Owners appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 7, 2021

By: Tyler Dysart. While this year’s Super Bowl held in Tampa, Florida looked quite different in many aspects from previous Super Bowls due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some things remained the same: Tom Brady hoisting a Lombardi trophy and counterfeit sports merchandise flooding the largest sporting event of the year. [i] At this year’s Super Bowl alone, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that they had seized 169,000 items of counterfeit, unlicensed sports merchandise worth approxi

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IP Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Though we may not all admit it, few among us can resist the appeal of a candy bar. But did you know the history of these confections and their value as Intellectual Property assets?

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JIPL Online

APRIL 7, 2021

By: Tyler Dysart The sports apparel market is plagued by counterfeit products that reproduce athletic teams’ trademarks at a fraction of the cost. This problem is catalyzed by exclusive licensing deals granted to manufacturers by sports teams, which drive up costs of these officially licensed goods and in turn forcing many consumers to go to black market websites to purchase apparel.

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2021

Fish is proud to announce that thirty attorneys from its Washington D.C. office have been honored with recognition on the 2020 Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll, for contributing 50 hours or more of pro bono work to those who cannot afford counsel. The 2020 Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll is an initiative of the D.C. Courts, in partnership with the D.C. Access to Justice Commission and the D.C.

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43(B)log

APRIL 7, 2021

A couple of small Google v. Oracle thoughts: The majority clearly says that, as with other categories of protected works, distinctions can be made within the categories, drawing lines “among” computer programs, books, and films. Not all literary works are the same; Infinite Jest gets a different kind of copyright protection than my emails do. Likewise, while the recent Warhol case at times seems to imply that the derivative works right overrides fair use, the same GvO passage says that copyright

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