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How to Trademark Your Business
- How to Trademark Your Business: The Complete 2026 Guide
- How Much Does It Cost to Trademark a Name in 2026?
- Do You Need a Trademark Attorney, or Can You File Yourself?
- What Happens After You File a Trademark: Step by Step
- How to Respond to a USPTO Trademark Office Action
- Someone Is Using My Business Name — What Are My Options?
- You Got a Trademark Cease-and-Desist Letter — What to Do
- Should You Trademark Your Name or Your Logo First?
- How to Trademark a Clothing Brand (Step by Step)
Which IP Protection Do You Need?
- Which IP Protection Do You Need? A Founder's Guide
- Trademark vs. Copyright vs. Patent: Which Do You Need?
- Patent vs. Trade Secret: Which Protects Your Invention?
- Do You Own the Logo You Paid a Freelancer to Make?
- Does a 'Poor Man's Patent' Actually Work?
- Provisional vs. Non-Provisional Patent: Which Should You File?
- How Long Does a Patent Take? The Real Timeline
- Can You Legally Use That Song, Font, or Image on Your Product?
Intellectual Property in California
- Intellectual Property in California: A 2026 Guide for Founders & Creators
- Are Non-Competes Enforceable in California? (2026)
- NDA vs. Non-Compete in California: What's Actually Enforceable
- Can a Company Use Your Face or Voice in an Ad Without Asking? (California Law)
- NIL Rights for Athletes and Creators in California, Explained
- How to Protect a Trade Secret in California (CUTSA Basics)
- Someone Copied Your Content: DMCA Takedown, Explained
AI and Intellectual Property
- AI and Intellectual Property: A 2026 Guide
- Can You Copyright AI-Generated Art or Content?
- Who Owns the Output of an AI Tool?
- Is It Legal to Train AI on Your Work? (And Can You Stop It?)
- Using AI-Generated Images & Music Commercially: What's Safe?
- AI Voice Cloning & Deepfakes: What Are Your Rights?
- The NO FAKES Act & State Digital-Replica Laws, Explained
- AI Clauses Every Business Contract Should Address
The Creator’s Guide to Copyright
- The Creator's Guide to Copyright (2026)
- How to Copyright Your Work (Do You Need to Register?)
- Copyright vs. Trademark for Creators
- Fair Use, Explained (With Real Examples)
- Music Sampling & Clearance: What You Actually Need
- How to License Your Creative Work
- Public Domain & Creative Commons, Explained
- How to Protect Your Content From Theft Online
The Startup IP Playbook
- The Startup IP Playbook (2026)
- The Pre-Launch IP Checklist for Startups
- Who Owns Your Startup's IP? (Founders, Employees, Contractors)
- NDAs That Actually Hold Up
- Locking Your Brand: Trademark, Domain & Handle
- IP in Fundraising & Due Diligence
- An IP Checklist for Amazon & E-Commerce Sellers
- Open-Source Licensing for Software Startups
The Inventor’s Guide to Patents
Domain Names & Cybersquatting
- Domain Names & Cybersquatting: A 2026 Guide
- UDRP vs. URS vs. ACPA: Which Domain Remedy?
- How to Recover a Stolen or Infringing Domain Name
- What Is Cybersquatting? (And Is It Illegal?)
- Trademark vs. Domain Name: What You Actually Own
- Can You Trademark a Generic.com Domain?
- Typosquatting & Defensive Domain Registration
TTAB Proceedings & Trademark Maintenance
- TTAB Proceedings & Trademark Maintenance
- Trademark Oppositions: How to Fight (or Survive) One
- Trademark Cancellation Proceedings, Explained
- Keeping Your Trademark: Section 8 & 9 Renewals
- Section 15 Incontestability: What It Gives You
- Principal vs. Supplemental Register, Explained
- What to Do If You Get a TTAB Notice
International IP Protection
- International IP Protection: A Founder's 2026 Guide
- The Madrid Protocol: Trademarks Abroad, Explained
- The PCT: How to Patent Your Invention Internationally
- Foreign Filing Basis for U.S. Trademarks
- The Doctrine of Foreign Equivalents in Trademark Law
- How to Register a Trademark in the EU (EUIPO)
- Protecting Your IP When Manufacturing Overseas
Entertainment & Media IP
- Entertainment & Media IP: A Creator's Guide
- Film & TV Rights and Chain of Title, Explained
- Option & Rights Agreements for Books, Scripts & Stories
- Music Licensing: Sync, Master & Mechanical Rights
- Influencer Brand Deals & FTC Disclosure Rules
- Idea Theft in Hollywood: Submission & Desny Claims
- How to Protect a Screenplay, Script or Story Idea
Copyrightability & OriginalityIdea–Expression & MergerAuthorship & OwnershipThe Exclusive RightsFair UseLicensing & RoyaltiesMusic & Sound RecordingsSoftware & CodeVisual Art, Photography & DesignFilm, TV & StreamingDMCA Safe HarborsAnti-Circumvention & CMIRegistration & FormalitiesTermination & ReversionInfringement & RemediesAI & CopyrightInternational Copyright
- "Get a License or Do Not Sample": Bridgeport's Bright Line for Sound Recordings
- A Menu Is a Method: How Lotus v. Borland Put Command Hierarchies Beyond Copyright
- A Performance Is Not a Work: Garcia v. Google and the Author Behind the Camera
- A Precondition, Not a Jurisdictional Bar: Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick Untangles § 411(a)
- A Series of Abstractions: Learned Hand and the Line No One Can Fix in Nichols v. Universal
- ABC v. Aereo: When 'Looks Like Cable' Beat the Engineering
- After Cox v. Sony: The Supreme Court Rebuilds the Wall Around ISP Safe Harbors
- All In or Not at All: Pandora v. ASCAP and the Limits of Partial Withdrawal
- Andersen v. Stability AI: The Theory That Diffusion Models Can 'Contain' the Works They Trained On
- Authorship Without an Author: Thaler v. Perlmutter and the Human Floor of Copyright
- Bartz v. Anthropic: Transformative Training, Unforgivable Acquisition
- Bots, Warden, and the Two Halves of § 1201: MDY Industries v. Blizzard
- Can a TV Buyer Enforce the GPL? SFC v. Vizio Heads Toward a Landmark Trial
- Capitol Records v. ReDigi: Why You Cannot Resell a Song the Way You Resell a Record
- Climbing Down: Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin and the End of the Inverse Ratio Rule
- Concord Music v. Anthropic: Why the Music Publishers Lost Their Bid to Halt AI Training
- Conduct, Not Speech: The D.C. Circuit Upholds DMCA § 1201 in Green v. DOJ
- Control, Intent, and the Limits of Collaboration: Aalmuhammed v. Lee
- Designs on a Uniform: Star Athletica and the New Test for Separability
- Disassembly as Fair Use: Why Sega v. Accolade Still Governs Reverse Engineering
- Elementary, After All: Klinger v. Conan Doyle Estate and the Public-Domain Character
- Feltner v. Columbia Pictures: The Jury's Role in Setting Statutory Damages
- Filtering the Code: How Computer Associates v. Altai Brought the Idea-Expression Line to Software
- Four Authors, One Vote Short: The Eleventh Circuit, 2 Live Crew, and the Fragility of the Termination Right
- Golan v. Holder: When Congress Pulled Foreign Works Back Out of the Public Domain
- Hachette v. Internet Archive: The End of 'Controlled Digital Lending' as a Fair-Use Theory
- Honest Mistakes of Law Survive: Unicolors v. H&M and the Scienter Floor of § 411(b)
- How Red Must the Flag Be? Viacom v. YouTube and the Specificity of § 512(c) Knowledge
- Infringement Without a Remedy: Eight Mile Style v. Spotify and the Estoppel Trap
- Infringing a Feeling? Williams v. Gaye and the "Blurred Lines" Verdict
- Ink on Screen: Solid Oak Sketches v. 2K Games and the Copyright Status of Tattoos in Video Games
- Instance, Expense, and the Heirs' Lost Recapture: Marvel Characters v. Kirby
- Interoperability Is Not Infringement: The Ninth Circuit Rewires Derivative-Works Law in Oracle v. Rimini Street
- Itar-Tass v. Russian Kurier: Splitting Ownership and Infringement Across Borders
- Kadrey v. Meta: A Fair-Use Win That Reads Like a Plaintiffs' Brief
- Kirtsaeng v. Wiley: First Sale Goes Global and the Gray Market Comes Home
- Kirtsaeng v. Wiley: How 'Objective Reasonableness' Anchors Copyright Fee-Shifting
- Lightly Sketched: Why The Moodsters Lost to Inside Out in Daniels v. Disney
- No Certificate, No Courthouse: Fourth Estate v. Wall-Street.com and the Registration Precondition to Suit
- Not a Place You'll Go: Dr. Seuss v. ComicMix and the Limits of the Mashup
- One Application, Thousands of Photographs: Alaska Stock v. Houghton Mifflin and Group Registration
- One Voice Is Enough: Scorpio Music v. Willis and the Joint Author's Solo Termination
- Originality Over Effort: Feist v. Rural and the Constitutional Floor for Copyright
- Parody Earns Its Keep: Campbell v. Acuff-Rose and the Birth of Transformative Fair Use
- Petrella v. MGM: Why Laches Cannot Shorten the Copyright Damages Window
- Recording Artists at the Termination Gate: Waite v. UMG Recordings
- Spanski v. Telewizja Polska: A Foreign Broadcaster's Stream Lands Inside U.S. Copyright
- Storage With Access: UMG v. Shelter Capital and the Reach of the § 512(c) Safe Harbor
- Stripping the Byline: The § 1202(b) Ruling in The Intercept Media v. OpenAI and the SDNY CMI Split
- Structured Asset Sales v. Sheeran: The Deposit Copy and the Limits of Owning a Groove
- The 44% Raise the D.C. Circuit Sent Back: Johnson v. Copyright Royalty Board
- The Dancing Baby's Rule: Lenz v. Universal and the § 512(f) Duty to Consider Fair Use
- The Garage-Door Case That Tethered the DMCA to Infringement: Chamberlain v. Skylink
- The Law Belongs to Everyone: Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org and the Government Edicts Doctrine
- The Method Belongs to the World: How Baker v. Selden Drew Copyright's First Boundary
- The New York Times v. OpenAI: Why a Manhattan Judge Let the Output-Infringement Claims Stand
- The Pose Belongs to No One: Rentmeester v. Nike and the Thin Copyright in a Photograph
- The Predicate-Act Doctrine Meets Mirrored Servers: Motorola Solutions v. Hytera and the Limits of U.S. Copyright Abroad
- The Server Test Survives: Hunley v. Instagram and the Public Display Right for Embedded Images
- Thomson Reuters v. Ross: The First Refusal of Fair Use in the AI Era
- To the Batmobile: How DC Comics v. Towle Made a Car a Copyrightable Character
- Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy: The Supreme Court Unshackles Copyright Damages From the Three-Year Window
- What Survives the Filter: The Ninth Circuit's 'Top Gun: Maverick' Decision and the Limits of Substantial Similarity
- When a Bundle Beats the Blanket: The MLC's Section 115 Royalty Fight With Spotify
- When Purpose Eclipses Meaning: Warhol v. Goldsmith and the Narrowing of Transformative Fair Use
- When the Author Comes Back: Horror Inc. v. Miller and the Limits of Work-for-Hire
- When the Eye Decides: Cariou v. Prince and Fair Use for Appropriation Art
- Where Ideas End and Expression Begins: The Ninth Circuit Revives Tangle's Sculpture Suit Against Aritzia
- Whitewashed Overnight: Castillo v. G&M Realty and VARA's Protection for Art of 'Recognized Stature'
- Who Owns the Statue? CCNV v. Reid and the Birth of the Agency Test
Distinctiveness & the SpectrumClearance & SearchesRegistration & ProsecutionThe TTABUse in Commerce & SpecimensLikelihood of ConfusionDilutionTrade DressTrademarks & the First AmendmentDomain Names & CybersquattingCounterfeiting & Gray MarketRemediesLicensing & FranchisingExtraterritorial ReachInternational (Madrid)Unfair Competition & False Advertising
- A Blocked Application Is a Real Interest: Empresa Cubana v. General Cigar and Standing Through the Embargo
- A Dish Is Not a Brand: In re Cordua Restaurants and Genericness for a Restaurant Specialty
- A Mark Is Nothing Without Its Goodwill: Sugar Busters v. Brennan and the Assignment-in-Gross Trap
- A Shade of Green-Gold: Qualitex v. Jacobson and the Trademarking of Color Alone
- A Single Naked License Sinks a Mark: Barcamerica v. Tyfield Importers and the Duty to Police Quality
- A Website Is Not a Service: Couture v. Playdom and the Rendering Requirement
- Abercrombie & Fitch v. Hunting World: Judge Friendly's Spectrum and the Architecture of Distinctiveness
- Abitron v. Hetronic: Drawing the Line at Domestic 'Use in Commerce'
- At the Border of Genuine: K Mart v. Cartier and the Gray-Market Compromise
- Belmora v. Bayer: A Foreign Mark Owner With No U.S. Use Can Still Sue Under §43(a)
- Big O Tire v. Goodyear: The Birth of Corrective Advertising Damages
- Chewy Vuiton and the Limits of Dilution: Louis Vuitton v. Haute Diggity Dog
- Control, Not Quality: Eva's Bridal v. Halanick and the Naked License Inside the Family Business
- Counterfeit Without a Fake: Chanel v. What Goes Around Comes Around and the Genuine-Goods Trap
- Crocs v. Effervescent: When Calling Your Product 'Patented' Becomes False Advertising
- Dastar v. Twentieth Century Fox: Who Counts as the 'Origin' of Goods Under Section 43(a)
- Dawn Donut v. Hart's Food: The Registrant Who Won the Mark but Lost the Injunction
- Dewberry Group v. Dewberry Engineers: Corporate Separateness Survives the Lanham Act
- Grupo Gigante v. Dallo: The Ninth Circuit Carves a Famous-Marks Exception
- Herb Reed v. Florida Entertainment: eBay Comes for the Trademark Injunction
- Hermès v. Rothschild: The MetaBirkins Verdict and Trademark Dilution in the NFT Market
- Hosting Counterfeit: Louis Vuitton v. Akanoc and the Liability of the Server Beneath the Storefront
- In re Chestek: When a Trademark Refusal Turns on Administrative Law, Not Trademark Law
- ITC v. Punchgini: The Second Circuit Refuses to Find a Famous-Marks Doctrine in Federal Law
- Lamparello v. Falwell: A Misspelled Domain, a Gripe Site, and the Limits of Cybersquatting Law
- Lexmark v. Static Control: The Two-Part Test for Who May Sue for False Advertising
- Matal v. Tam: Why the Lanham Act Cannot Punish a Band Called The Slants
- Mattel v. MCA Records: 'Barbie Girl,' Parody, and the Limits of a Famous Mark
- McBee v. Delica Co.: A Jazz Bassist, a Japanese Label, and the Substantial-Effects Line
- Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue: When Dilution Demanded Proof of Actual Harm
- Person's Co. v. Christman: Foreign Use, U.S. Priority, and the Limits of Bad Faith
- PETA v. Doughney: When a Domain Name Is the Punchline, the Parody Defense Fails
- Preparation Is Not Performance: Aycock Engineering v. Airflite
- Re-Registration as Cybersquatting: Prudential v. Shenzhen Stone and the Reach of the ACPA
- Red, But Only in Contrast: Louboutin v. YSL and the Limits of a Single-Color Mark
- Rejection Is Breach, Not Rescission: Mission Product Holdings v. Tempnology and the Survival of Trademark Licenses in Bankruptcy
- Rogers v. Grimaldi: The Two-Part Test That Made Room for Art in Trademark Law
- Romag Fasteners v. Fossil: Willfulness Is a Factor, Not a Gate, for Disgorgement
- Sporty's Farm v. Sportsman's Market: The First Appellate Word on the Anticybersquatting Act
- Steele v. Bulova Watch Co.: The Lanham Act Follows the Citizen Across the Border
- T.A.B. Systems v. PacTel Teletrac: Pre-Sales Publicity Counts Only If the Public Was Actually Reached
- The Boot That Could Not Become a Brand: TBL Licensing v. Vidal and the Limits of Product-Configuration Trade Dress
- The Charbucks Saga: How Starbucks Lost Its Dilution-by-Blurring Claim
- The Death of the 'Should Have Known' Standard: In re Bose and Fraud on the PTO
- The Eight-Factor Engine: How AMF v. Sleekcraft Built the West Coast Confusion Test
- The Knowledge Line: Tiffany v. eBay and the Limits of Marketplace Liability
- The Sliding Scale of Secondary Meaning: In re Steelbuilding.com and the Burden of Section 2(f)
- The Spring That Could Not Be Owned: TrafFix Devices v. Marketing Displays and the Functionality Bar
- The Test That Outlived the Verdict: Polaroid v. Polarad and the Birth of the Confusion Factors
- Token Use Won't Save a Registration: Social Technologies v. Apple and the 'Memoji' Mark
- Trader Joe's v. Hallatt: 'Pirate Joe's,' Cross-Border Resale, and a Merits Question in Disguise
- Two Elements and a Single Factor: Cunningham v. Laser Golf and the Architecture of Cancellation
- Two Hats, One Commerce Clause: Christian Faith Fellowship Church v. adidas
- Two Pesos v. Taco Cabana: When Trade Dress Is Inherently Distinctive, No Secondary Meaning Required
- Vidal v. Elster: A Unanimous Judgment, a Divided Court, and the Limits of History
- Waits v. Frito-Lay: A Distinctive Voice and the Birth of False Endorsement
- Wal-Mart v. Samara Brothers: Product Design Is Never Inherently Distinctive
- When a Generic Word Buys a Domain: USPTO v. Booking.com and the Limits of Per Se Genericness
- When a Mark Is Used 'As a Mark': Punchbowl v. AJ Press and the Shrinking Reach of Rogers
- When Fraud Doesn't Cancel: Great Concepts v. Chutter and the Limits of Section 14
- When Search Results Aren't Confusing: Multi Time Machine v. Amazon and the Limits of Initial-Interest Confusion
- When the Board Speaks First: B&B Hardware and the Preclusive Reach of TTAB Decisions
- Who Decides Priority: Hana Financial v. Hana Bank and the Jury's Role in Trademark Tacking
- Zazu Designs v. L'Oréal: Why a Few Bottles and a Registration Plan Do Not Win the Mark
Patent-Eligible Subject MatterNovelty & Prior ArtNon-ObviousnessEnablement & Written DescriptionDefiniteness & Claim DraftingUtility PatentsDesign PatentsPlant PatentsProsecution & the USPTOPTAB (IPR / PGR)Claim ConstructionInfringementDamagesInjunctionsStandard-Essential Patents & FRANDITC §337 / Import BansInventorship & OwnershipLife Sciences & BiotechInternational (PCT)
- Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank: The Two-Step Test That Reshaped Software Patents
- Amgen v. Sanofi: The Enablement Tax on Functional Genus Claims
- Apple v. Motorola: No Per Se Bar to SEP Injunctions, but a Steep Climb Under eBay
- Apple's Watch Stays Banned: The Federal Circuit Affirms the Masimo Section 337 Exclusion Order
- Believing a Patent Is Invalid Is No Defense: Commil USA v. Cisco Systems
- Bilski v. Kappos: When the Machine-or-Transformation Test Became a Clue, Not a Rule
- Brenner v. Manson: Why a Patent Is Not a Hunting License
- Caraco v. Novo Nordisk: A Counterclaim to Police the Orange Book
- Celanese v. ITC: The On-Sale Bar Survives the AIA for Secret Processes
- ClearCorrect v. ITC: Why a Data Stream Is Not an 'Article'
- Comcast v. ITC: Domestic Conduct, Imported Boxes, and Section 337's Long Reach
- Corn in the Mainstream Patent System: J.E.M. Ag Supply v. Pioneer Hi-Bred and the Utility Patent for Plants
- Deepsouth v. Laitram: The Loophole That Built §271(f)
- DuPont v. Synvina: Overlapping Ranges and the Burden That Shifts
- eBay v. MercExchange: The Decision That Ended the Automatic Patent Injunction
- EcoFactor v. Google: The Federal Circuit Sharpens the Gatekeeper's Knife on Damages
- Egyptian Goddess v. Swisa: How the Federal Circuit Killed the Point-of-Novelty Test
- Ericsson v. Lenovo: The Federal Circuit Reopens the Door to Anti-Suit Injunctions in Global FRAND Wars
- Ethicon v. U.S. Surgical: One Omitted Co-Inventor Can Sink an Infringement Suit
- Expiration, Not Issuance: Gilead v. Natco Rewrites Obviousness-Type Double Patenting
- Gorham v. White: The 1871 Decision That Still Decides Design-Patent Infringement
- Grace Instrument v. Chandler: When the Specification, Not the Dictionary, Decides Definiteness
- Helsinn v. Teva: A Secret Sale Still Counts Under the America Invents Act
- How Far Does a U.S. Patent Reach? WesternGeco v. ION and Foreign Lost Profits
- How Much Seed Can a Farmer Save? Asgrow Seed v. Winterboer and the Limits of the PVPA Crop Exemption
- i4i v. Microsoft: How a Tailored Injunction Survived eBay and Forced Word to Change
- Idenix v. Gilead: How a $2.54 Billion Verdict Collapsed on Enablement
- In re Cellect: When Patent Term Adjustment Meets Double Patenting
- In re Cyclobenzaprine: Secondary Considerations Are Not an Afterthought
- In re Fisher: Gene Fragments and the Limits of 'Useful'
- In re Klopfenstein: When a Conference Poster Becomes a 'Printed Publication'
- Interval Licensing v. AOL: When a Term of Degree Has No Anchor
- Juicy Whip v. Orange Bang: The Quiet Death of Moral Utility
- Juno v. Kite: Written Description and the Genus the Patent Could Not Possess
- K-fee v. Nespresso: How an Ambiguous Foreign File Wrapper Failed to Shrink a Claim
- KSR v. Teleflex: The Day the Rigid Obviousness Test Died
- LaserDynamics v. Quanta: How the Entire Market Value Rule Became a Narrow Exception
- Life Technologies v. Promega: One Component Is Not a 'Substantial Portion' Abroad
- LKQ v. GM: The Federal Circuit Dismantles the Design-Patent Obviousness Test
- Mayo v. Prometheus: How a Diagnostic Method Became a Law of Nature
- Merck v. Integra: How Wide Is the Research Safe Harbor?
- Microsoft v. AT&T: When Software Crosses the Border but the Patent Statute Does Not
- Microsoft v. Motorola: The Ninth Circuit Builds the First Judicial Blueprint for a RAND Royalty
- Natera v. NeoGenomics: Causal Nexus and the Equity of a Two-Player Market
- Nautilus v. Biosig: The Birth of 'Reasonable Certainty' in Patent Definiteness
- No Inducement Without a Direct Infringer: Limelight Networks v. Akamai
- Oil States v. Greene's Energy: Why the Supreme Court Let the PTAB Cancel Patents
- Pannu v. Iolab: The Three-Part Test for Who Counts as a Joint Inventor
- Pfaff v. Wells Electronics: When an Idea Becomes 'Ready for Patenting'
- Planting Is Making: Bowman v. Monsanto and Patent Exhaustion for Self-Replicating Seeds
- Raising the Bar: Therasense v. Becton, Dickinson and the New Inequitable-Conduct Standard
- Recentive Analytics v. Fox: Generic Machine Learning Meets the Abstract-Idea Bar
- Robert Bosch v. Pylon: Burying the Presumption of Irreparable Harm — Then Granting the Injunction Anyway
- Roses Are Patented: David Austin Roses v. GCM Ranch and the Asexual-Reproduction Pleading Burden
- Samsung v. Apple: When Is 'Total Profit' the Profit on the Whole Phone?
- Sandoz v. Amgen: The Patent Dance Is a Choice, Not a Command
- SAS Institute v. Iancu: The End of Partial Institution at the PTAB
- Sonix v. Publications International: How a Term of Degree Survives
- Sonos v. Google: When a Long-Pending Utility Patent Becomes Unenforceable
- Stanford v. Roche: Bayh-Dole Did Not Move Title Away From the Inventor
- Suprema v. ITC: How Induced Infringement Became an Import Violation
- TCL v. Ericsson: The Seventh Amendment Collides With Judge-Set FRAND Rates
- Thaler v. Vidal: Why a Machine Cannot Be a Named Inventor — Yet
- The Flexible Bar Survives: Festo v. Shoketsu Kinzoku and the Limits of Estoppel
- The Specification Comes First: Phillips v. AWH Corp. and the Hierarchy of Claim-Construction Evidence
- The Submarine Surfaces: Symbol Technologies v. Lemelson and the Revival of Prosecution Laches
- Uniloc v. Microsoft: The Death of the 25 Percent Rule of Thumb
- United States v. Arthrex: The Director's Last Word Over the PTAB
- VirnetX v. Cisco: Apportionment Does Not Stop at the Smallest Salable Unit
- Virtek Vision v. Assembly Guidance: A Reason to Combine, Not Just the Parts
- When a 'Skinny Label' Is Not Skinny Enough: GSK v. Teva and the Limits of the Section viii Carve-Out
- When Canceling a Claim Forfeits Equivalents: Colibri Heart Valve v. Medtronic
- When Claim Construction Is a Fact: Teva Pharmaceuticals v. Sandoz and the Clear-Error Standard
- Who Proves the Diligent Search? Ironburg v. Valve and the Burden of IPR Estoppel
- Who Reads the Claim: Markman v. Westview Instruments and the Birth of the Markman Hearing
- Wyeth v. Abbott: One Species, Tens of Thousands of Claims, and Undue Experimentation
What Qualifies as a Trade SecretReasonable Secrecy MeasuresMisappropriationThe DTSAState Law / UTSANDAs & ConfidentialityEmployee MobilityNon-CompetesInevitable DisclosureDamages & Injunctive ReliefEx Parte SeizureCriminal Theft (EEA)Trade Secret vs. Patent StrategyInternational / Cross-Border
- AMD v. Feldstein: A Million Copied Files and the Limits of an Innocent Explanation
- AMN Healthcare v. Aya Healthcare: California's Ban Reaches the Employee Non-Solicit
- Appian v. Pegasystems: How a $2 Billion Trade-Secret Verdict Came Undone
- Aronson v. Quick Point Pencil: Collecting Royalties on a Patent That Never Issued
- Attia v. Google: The DTSA Reaches Pre-Enactment Secrets, But Only If They Survive
- AvidAir v. Rolls-Royce: Legends, NDAs, and the Modest Bar for Reasonable Secrecy
- Axis Steel Detailing v. Prilex: When 'Extraordinary Circumstances' Are Actually Met
- BDO Seidman v. Hirshberg: New York's Blueprint for Partially Enforcing an Overbroad Covenant
- Bimbo Bakeries v. Botticella: How the Third Circuit Enjoined an Executive Without Demanding Inevitability
- BladeRoom v. Emerson: The Two-Year NDA That Ate a $60 Million Verdict
- Bonito Boats v. Thunder Craft: When a State Cannot Re-Create the Patent Monopoly
- Brown v. TGS Management: When a Confidentiality Clause Becomes an Illegal Noncompete
- Brunswick Rail v. Sultanov: Why Courts Keep Saying No to DTSA Seizure
- Buffets v. Klinke: Why a Recipe for Macaroni and Cheese Is Not a Trade Secret
- Caudill Seed v. Jarrow Formulas: When a Researcher Carries the Library Out the Door
- Cellular Accessories v. Trinitas: Are a Salesman's LinkedIn Connections His, or the Company's?
- ConFold v. Polaris: When a Design Is Neither a Trade Secret Nor Covered by the NDA
- Convolve v. Compaq: When the NDA's Own Marking Rules Defeat the Secret
- Du Pont v. Christopher: Spying From the Sky as 'Improper Means'
- DuPont v. Kolon: A $919.9 Million Kevlar Verdict and the Fragile Foundations of Trade-Secret Damages
- EarthWeb v. Schlack: The Decision That Tried to Cage Inevitable Disclosure
- Edwards v. Arthur Andersen: California Closes the Door on the 'Narrow-Restraint' Exception
- IBM v. Visentin: When New York Recognized Inevitable Disclosure and Still Said No
- IDX v. Epic: A Trade Secret You Cannot Describe Is a Trade Secret You Cannot Protect
- Insulet v. EOFlow: A $452 Million Verdict, an Avoided-Cost Theory, and the Limits of Trade-Secret Recovery
- Inventus Power v. Shenzhen Ace: The DTSA Follows Trade Secrets to China
- Kadant v. Seeley: Reverse Engineering as a Complete Answer
- Magnesita Refractories v. Mishra: Seizing a Laptop Without the DTSA Seizure Statute
- Mallet v. Lacayo: Why a Trade-Secret Injunction Collapsed for Lack of Specificity
- Metron Nutraceuticals v. Cook: The Contract Carve-Out That Survives UTSA Displacement
- MicroStrategy v. Business Objects: A Field Manual for Reasonable Secrecy Measures
- Mission Capital Advisors v. Romaka: The First DTSA Seizure, and Why It Took a TRO to Fail First
- Oakwood Laboratories v. Thanoo: What It Takes to Plead 'Use' Under the DTSA
- Object Code, Source Code, and the Outer Edge of Supersession: Silvaco v. Intel
- PepsiCo v. Redmond: The Case That Built the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine
- Rockwell v. DEV Industries: Posner Makes Secrecy a Cost-Benefit Problem
- Sabre GLBL v. Shan: Building a Competitor on the Clock, and Paying for the Head Start
- Sears v. Stiffel: The Pole Lamp That Made Copying a Federal Right
- Secrecy or Monopoly: What Kewanee Oil v. Bicron Still Teaches About the Patent–Trade-Secret Choice
- Sino Legend v. ITC: A 10-Year Import Ban and the Limits of Comity
- Smith v. Dravo: When Sale Talks Create a Duty of Confidence
- StorageCraft v. Kirby: A Reasonable Royalty Even When the Thief Never Profited
- Syntel v. TriZetto: The Limits of 'Avoided Costs' as DTSA Damages
- TAOS v. Renesas: Disgorgement, Apportionment, and the Head-Start Clock
- The 'Same Nucleus of Facts': K.C. Multimedia v. Bank of America and the Birth of CUTSA Supersession
- TianRui v. ITC: How Section 337 Reached a Theft That Happened in China
- Turret Labs v. CargoSprint: When Locking the Windows Isn't Enough
- United States v. Aleynikov: When Stolen Source Code Fell Outside the EEA
- United States v. Hanjuan Jin: The Proof Gap Between Theft and Espionage
- United States v. Liew: The First Jury Conviction for Economic Espionage
- United States v. Xiaorong You: A 168-Month Sentence and the Anatomy of Economic Espionage
- vPersonalize v. Magnetize: How a U.S. Court Reached a U.K. Defendant Under the DTSA
- When 'Everything Is a Trade Secret' Is Nothing: Sysco Machinery v. DCS USA
- When a Confidentiality Clause Becomes a Federal Violation: The SEC's $18 Million J.P. Morgan Whistleblower Order
- When the National Non-Compete Ban Fell: Ryan, LLC v. FTC and the Return to Trade-Secret Protection
- When the Secret Isn't the Wrong: Angelica Textile Services v. Park and the Limits of CUTSA Displacement
Name, Image & LikenessVoice & Sound-AlikesAI, Deepfakes & Digital ReplicasPost-Mortem RightsFirst Amendment & Expressive UseCommercial MisappropriationAthletes & College NILInfluencers & Social MediaState-by-State VariationLicensing & Estates
- "Here's Johnny" on a Portable Toilet: Carson and the Catchphrase as Identity
- A Borrowed Life Is Not a Borrowed Face: Gravano v. Take-Two
- A Face Is Not a Photograph: KNB Enterprises v. Matthews and Why § 3344 Survives Copyright Preemption
- A Release Is Not a License to All: Electra v. 59 Murray Enterprises and the Models Whose Images Sold the Nightclub
- Are You Experienced, After Death? The Ninth Circuit, Jimi Hendrix, and the Post-Mortem Right of Publicity
- Booth v. Colgate-Palmolive: New York's Refusal to Protect a Voice Alone
- Brown v. Electronic Arts: Why the Rogers Test Sank Jim Brown's Likeness Claim the Same Day Keller Won
- California's Digital-Replica Statutes: AB 2602 and AB 1836 Split the Living from the Dead
- Davis v. Electronic Arts: Retired NFL Players, the Incidental-Use Defense, and the Limits of First Amendment Cover
- Dracula Dies With the Actor: Lugosi v. Universal and the Birth of the Descendibility Debate
- Estate of Presley v. Russen: Where an Estate's Publicity License Stops and a Tribute Show Begins
- Factors Etc. v. Pro Arts: When an Exclusive Elvis License Outlived the Right It Licensed
- Fame Falls to the Public: Memphis Development v. Factors and Elvis's Post-Mortem Persona
- Hart v. Electronic Arts: The Transformative-Use Test and an Athlete's Likeness in a Video Game
- House v. NCAA: The Settlement That Made College Athletes Paid Licensors
- Identity Is Not a Work of Authorship: Toney v. L'Oréal and the Limits of Copyright Preemption
- Johnson v. NCAA: Can a College Athlete Be an Employee?
- Keller v. Electronic Arts: The Ninth Circuit Adopts the Transformative-Use Test for College Athletes' Likenesses
- Lahr v. Adell Chemical Co.: The Sound-Alike Case That Predated Midler by a Generation
- Lehrman v. Lovo: Why the Right of Publicity — Not Copyright — Governs AI Voice Cloning
- Lew Alcindor in an Oldsmobile Ad: Abdul-Jabbar and the Persistence of a Former Name
- Licensing the Image, Not the Athlete: Maloney v. T3Media and Copyright Preemption of the Right of Publicity
- Midler v. Ford Motor Co.: When a Sound-Alike Steals an Identity
- Milton Greene v. Marilyn Monroe LLC: How a Star's Domicile Decided Who Owns Her Image
- MLK Center v. American Heritage Products: A Descendible Publicity Right Without a Lifetime License
- NCAA v. Alston: A Unanimous Court Removes Amateurism's Shield
- No One Owns History: De Havilland v. FX and the First Amendment Defense to Right-of-Publicity Claims
- O'Bannon v. NCAA: The Likeness Case That Cracked Amateurism
- Raw Material or the Whole Point: Comedy III and the Birth of the Transformative-Use Test
- Robots at the Cheers Bar: Wendt, Animatronics, and the Persona of a Role
- Sinatra v. Goodyear: When a Music License Defeats a Voice Claim
- Stories Taken from Life: Sarver v. Chartier and the First Amendment Shield for Films
- The ELVIS Act: Tennessee Makes 'Voice' a Protected Property Right Against AI Cloning
- The Intellectual Property Door in Section 230: Hepp v. Facebook
- The Whole Act: Zacchini and the Supreme Court's Only Right-of-Publicity Ruling
- Valentino's Ghost and the First Amendment: Guglielmi's Concurrence That Outlived the Holding
- When a Robot Becomes You: White v. Samsung and the Reach of Identity
- When the Avatar Is You: Lohan v. Take-Two and the Recognizability Line
- When the Magazine Wins: Hoffman v. Capital Cities/ABC and the First Amendment Limit on the Right of Publicity
- Young v. NeoCortext: When a Face-Swap App Meets California's Right of Publicity