The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has reissued its warning about fraudulent trademarking solicitations purporting to be official communications from the agency. The USPTO website now provides direct links to 13 examples of the non-USPTO solicitations about which the agency has received complaints within the past several months. As I previously highlighted on this blog, … Continue reading
Well, for some unknown reason, WordPress decided to mess up my great blog post on sand. Litterally, nothing is left. No words, no pictures, no pithy remarks. Nada. I am in meetings all day today, so I will try and fix it and post it again. Sorry for the messup. Damn you WordPress blog eating … Continue reading
As an attorney when you say family law to me I almost always think divorce. There are many other facets to family law, so my apologies to all the family law practitioners out there. But when family law meets patent law, it is usually because of a divorce, death or dissolution of some sort. In … Continue reading
By now you have heard the Kepler space telescope is in trouble. It may have to cease operations soon. There won’t be any repair mission because a) we no longer have any operational shuttles and b) and even if we did, Kepler is about 40 million miles (64 million kilometers) from Earth in a … Continue reading
General Motors has successfully defended a right of publicity lawsuit over its use of the image of Albert Einstein in a 2009 advertisement. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which controls Einstein’s rights of publicity, had alleged that GM was not authorized to use his likeness. It sued General Motors for trademark infringement, unfair competition, and … Continue reading
