by Kaitlin Corey | May 29, 2019 | Blog
On May 20, 2019, the Supreme Court answered the longstanding question of what happens to a licensee’s right to use a trademark under a license agreement if a bankrupt licensor rejects the license agreement. The Court held that a licensor’s ability to reject a license...
by Kaitlin Corey | Mar 11, 2019 | Blog
The United States Supreme Court held in Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp v. Wallstreet.com, LLC, that the Copyright Office must either issue a (1) copyright registration certificate or (2) refuse to register a copyright before a copyright owner can sue for copyright...
by Kaitlin Corey | Sep 11, 2018 | Blog
Before making health and wellness claims about products, companies should make sure the claims they are asserting are accurate. Accurate does not mean that customers stand by the product and agree with the claims — the asserted claims must be backed by science....
by Kaitlin Corey | Jul 17, 2018 | Blog
A copyright infringement action cannot “be instituted until preregistration or registration of the copyright has been made in accordance with the [Copyright Act].” 17 U.S.C. Section 411(a). The Copyright Act does not provide guidance on how “registration of the...
by Kaitlin Corey | May 23, 2018 | Blog
The Ninth Circuit recently ruled in its case concerning monkey selfie photographs. As many remember, in 2011, while visiting an Indonesian rainforest, nature photographer David Slater left his camera unattended. According to Slater, a monkey known as Naruto, picked up...
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