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Have you ever uploaded an image from the internet and used it in your promotional brochure or found a perfect blog post and incorporated it into your own blog theme? If the answer is yes, you may have inadvertently violated copyright law. Copyright law, in a nutshell, protects any original creation, such as pictures, writings, creative efforts (dramatic, musical or…
Mistakes Inventors Make When Dealing with Patent Lawyers Download a PDF of the article here By Gary S. Shuster As an inventor with well over 150 issued U.S. Patents and a Harvard Law degree, I have a unique perspective on the inventor/lawyer relationship. I understand the frustration that patent lawyers feel when the inventor doesn’t understand that patent lawyers aren’t…
Coleman & Horowitt is a proud sponsor of Valley Innovators, a company dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, mentorship and development of capital for startups. As part of our sponsorship, attorneys from Coleman & Horowitt participate in podcasts, in an effort to provide useful information to entrepreneurs and start up companies. Recently, Sherrie Flynn, a patent attorney specializing in all aspects…
Pinkette Clothing v. Cosmetic Warriors In Pinkette Clothing, Inc. v. Cosmetic Warriors Limited, dba Lush Handmade Cosmetics (“CWL”), CWL filed a trademark infringement suit against Pinkette, seeking cancellation of its trademark registration because of the likelihood of confusion as to the use of the label “LUSH” on clothing. The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal affirmed the district court’s judgment in favor of Pinkette,…
U.S. Courts of Appeal are split as to whether copyright registration occurs once the copyright holder delivers the required application, deposit and fee to the Copyright Office, or whether registration occurs after the Copyright Office acts on an application by either registering or denying a copyright. As such, the Supreme Court will consider this issue in its current term through Fourth Estate Public…
It was 2006. RIM/Blackberry just settled a patent infringement case for $612.5 million. US patent law had been largely stable for decades. The Chinese government was not all in on IP. The US government ran the world’s best patent system, and “Designed in California, Manufactured in China” was the tagline on almost every Apple device. The RIM settlement was…
President Trump’s new head of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Andrei Iancu, recently noted that uncertainty about what kinds of innovation are patent-eligible is weakening investment, growth, and jobs in high tech industries: I do worry that the current state of Section 101 in patentable subject matter weakens the robustness of our IP system in the affected…
The Central Valley is not just the agricultural center of California (and the country), and a great place to live and raise a family. It is starting to become a center for tech. It was recently highlighted as a place for VCs to consider investing in “Why You Should Invest in Fresno and the Central Valley” in Venture Beat. Check…
A Crested Macaque named Naruto was just doing his thing on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia in 2011 when he came across an unattended camera. Though he was only six or seven years old at the time, he decided to do his best Millenial impression and takes some selfies. Shortly thereafter, the wildlife photographer who left the camera unattended,…
Today the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Oil States Energy Services, Inc. v. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC. The Court determined that patents are “public rights” subject to evisceration by political appointees. The importance of the decision to innovators is described in the first paragraph of Justice Gorsuch’s dissent (joined by Chief Justice Roberts): As readers of this blog…