Creative Law Center

JANUARY 10, 2019

The public domain freeze is over. More creative work is free for use than ever before. Here's how to tell if a work is in the public domain. The post What is in the Public Domain? appeared first on Creative Law Center.

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McBayer IP Blog

JANUARY 16, 2019

Posted In Trademark A well-known truism of trademark law is that if the owner of a trademark is not making adequate ongoing use of that trademark, the owner of the mark is at risk of jeopardizing the continued right to enforce the trademark to prevent others from using the same or a similar mark in a related line of business. Apparently the McDonald’s restaurant chain just this week felt the pain of this rule, possibly losing the right to enforce the BIG MAC trademark anywhere throughout t

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Greenspoon Marder LLP

JANUARY 15, 2019

By: Sharon Urias, Esq. The proliferation of three-dimensional (3D) printing has led to unique challenges and novel issues in the context of intellectual property law and, in particular, patent law. Due to the protracted nature of the legal system, modern innovation and technological advancements always seem to outpace the law. 3D printing is no exception.

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Art Law Journal

JANUARY 15, 2019

Steve Schlackman. On Jan 1, 2019, we not only ushered in a new year but also an unprecedented amount of creative works entering the public domain.

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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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Greenspoon Marder LLP

JANUARY 11, 2019

By: Justin McNaughton In the last few years the U.S. Trademark Office has been amassing a collection of rejected and abandoned trademark applications listing Cannabidiol in the description of goods; hundreds of these dead applications are now strewn across the records of the U.S. Trademark Office. Until December 2018, the U.S. Trademark Office had been refusing Cannabis-derived products from registration because the DEA had proclaimed that most CBD products were illegal in interstate commerce.

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Greenspoon Marder LLP

JANUARY 25, 2019

By: Sharon Urias, Esq. Blockchain is a technology that allows transactions to be digitally recorded in a “decentralized ledger.” The ledger, which is a public database accessible by all participants, cannot be controlled by a single entity and has no single point of failure. In essence, it is a technology that offers a safe, accurate trail of digital information.

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