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Can we agree at the outset of this article that attorneys as a class tend to be awful at branding? This statement shouldn’t be controversial, and yet I’m already wincing as I imagine my inbox filling up with comments that start off on the lines of “But whuddabout…?” Yes, there are exceptions to every rule.

When news broke that beloved “Tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff” Winnie the Pooh was destined to enter the public domain on January 1st, 2022, 95 years after A.A. Milne’s beloved children’s classic first hit the shelves and the feels of generations, it was inevitable that people would create their own spins on the

Even an incarcerated felon has the right to try to protect their intellectual property, as “Tiger King” Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic, is demonstrating with his latest legal filing. The suit, filed in Florida Northern District Court, asserts that former music collaborator Vince Johnson infringed Exotic’s copyright by rerecording and using five songs that were

Sometimes a case comes along that tests both the limits of the law and the moral and ethical scope of an era. Moderna’s suit against Pfizer and partner firm BioNTech appears to be such a case—and the downstream effects of the verdict, pro or con, may have repercussions in US patent law for decades or

The suits filed by George Lopez, Andrew “Dice” Clay, Lewis Black, the estates of Robin Williams and George Carlin, and others against Pandora conglomerated into one Titanic legal action, pundits are already drawing comparisons between the current lawsuit against Pandora and actions against infamous file-sharing services like Napster and LimeWire, who were targeted by musicians

A while back, I wrote about the legal heat Mariah Carey had drawn over allegations of copyright infringement for her Christmas anthem “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Now, she’s taking fire again…this time over plans to trademark the phrase “Queen of Christmas.” The trademark has hit a sour note with at least two