Typically, when a trademark owner lets its trademark become freely used, the mark becomes generic. Apparently broccolini 🥦 is a trademarked term and the owner is now trying to pull it back from its generic status.

FTC announces nationwide rule banning noncompetes - will become effective 120 days after the rule is published - eliminates existing noncompete provisions

RT @markgurman: In an unprecedented development, Apple will halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 sales in the US after an ITC….

RT @AngelaZhangHK: 🚨Breaking: The Beijing Internet Court made a landmark ruling yesterday, endorsing copyrights for AI-generated artwork. T….

RT @ArizonaFBall: CU later 👋

RT @ArizonaMBB: LETS GOOOO 🐻⬇️

USC waited until after the Grinch stole their Christmas plans to fire him.

An Idaho federal judge required a plaintiff to post an $8 million bond before being permitted to litigate a patent infringement claim, based on the state's Bad Faith Assertions of Patent Infringement Act. Assuming this is appealed, is the Idaho act preem…

RT @fasc1nate: After Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin invented the three-point seatbelt, the company opened up the patent because "it had more va….

RT @patentlyo: Benjamin Robbins Curtis -- The only patent attorney to serve on the US Supreme Court. He dissent in Dred Scott and resigned….

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The Copyright Office released its study and report on the Digital Millenium Copyright Act #DMCA. It can be found at The office found that the safe harbor system is unbalanced and out of sync with Congressional intent. #copyright #safeharbor

In a 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court ruled against the Patent Office's unusual practice of demanding attorneys' fees in court cases where the Patent Office was the losing party. Peter v. Nantkwest, no. 18-801 (Sup. Ct. Dec. 11, 2019).#scotus #uspto #patent.

Resolving a Circuit split, the Supreme Court ruled that #copyright owners can't file an infringement suit until the copyright office issues the registration. In the past, some circuits allowed filing after applying for registratio…

U.S. Patent Number 10,000,000 issued on Tuesday, only three years after U.S. Patent Number 9,000,000.

#Patentlyo has a synopsis of today's #Oracle v. #Google opinion that found that Google's use of Oracle's #API packages for #Java was not fair use under copyright law; or you could read the 56 page Federal Circuit opinion. …

Some criticism of the SAFT mechanism for tokenized asset offerings is found in this paper out of Cardozo Law.Project - Not So Fast - SAFT Response_final.pdf #saft #ico #tao #cryptocurrency

The SAFT ("Simple Agreement for Future Tokens") project proposes a way to legally conduct a tokenized asset offering (provided other SEC requirements are complied with). #ico #tao #saft #cryptocurrency 

SEC Chairman's statement on cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings (or tokenized asset offerings). #ico #tao #cryptocurrency 

The Supreme Court will decide whether inter partes review of patents is Constitutional. #scotus #patent…