The Rock recently negotiated to have the WWE assign all of the rights to his WWE intellectual property including branding components like his nickname, costume, voice, image and even insults used in the WWE. As part of acquiring the rights in his branding, he agreed to license it back to the WWE for the next 10 years.
In the highly competative area of software develoment, computer source code holds immense value. It’s the lifeblood of a company’s innovation and the fruit of years of labor and toil. Selecting the right form of protection depends on several factors, like the originality, confidentiality, and functionality of your code. Consulting with an experienced IP attorney ensures you leverage the most effective form of IP protection for your specific situation.
2023 is nearing its sunset, and with it comes the time for reflection and intellectual property resolutions. Yet, while most resolutions fade with the January frost, safeguarding your businesses intellectual property deserves steadfast commitment. Intellectual property protection protects your bussinesses most valuable assets – its ideas, innovations, and tangible expressions of creativity. Think of intellectual property protection as a shield, if properly designed it will allow you to reap the benefits of your years of hard work and investment. We believe 2024 should be your year of innovation, and that starts with building an impregnable IP fortress.
Its hard to believe that what once was lived at the Laugh-O-Gram studio at the corner of Forest Avenue and 31st Street in Kansas City, Missouri has become a symbol of ingenuity and creativity around the globe for nearly a century. Since the early 1920s, Mickey Mouse has been the grinning emblem of Disney’s empire, protected by a copyright as ironclad as his yellow shoes. But the copyright countdown is ticking away on its exclusivity, and on January 1st, 2024, the original “Steamboat Willie” Mickey will sail into the uncharted waters of the public domain.
On November 1, 2023, the US Supreme Court will hear a trademark case that pits 1st Amendment Law against Trademark law and NIL rights. The case involves a challenge to a provision of the Lanham Act that prohibits the registration of trademarks of a person without their consent.
In a trademark lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Sportswear company Wooter said that Dick’s Sporting Goods use of an infinity logo is virtually identical to its infinity-symbol and thus likely to cause customer confusion baseed on the overlapping clothing markets and is seeking $8 Mill in damages.
After a long legal battle, the phrase “Taco Tuesday” is now free for anyone to use as a result of drawn out litigation from Taco Bell. This is a victory for Taco Bell, which has been trying to make the phrase “Taco Tuesday” a generic term that anyone can use.
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Trademarking Domain Names In a win for a business owner, the Supreme Court recently held that a company’s website which used a .com ending was protectable as a trademark, reversing the decision of the trademark office. Booking.com had attempted to register its domain, Booking.com and the USPTO rejected the application claiming it was generic. The Read more about Trademark Office looses Challenge, Website Owner Gets Trademark[…]