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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)
- Lanham Act Section 43(a): False Designation and False Advertising
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?
- How Much Does It Cost to Protect Your IP?
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
- Is Your Use Fair Use? How to Assess the Risk
- 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
- How Much Does It Cost to Copyright Something in 2026?
- DMCA Section 512 Safe Harbors: How Platforms Avoid Liability
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
- 9 Startup IP Mistakes That Can Cost You the Company
The Inventor’s Guide to Patents
- How to Patent an Idea: The Inventor's 2026 Guide
- Can You Patent an App or Software?
- How to Do a Patent Search Before You File
- Design vs. Utility Patent: Which Do You Need?
- Is Your Invention Patentable? A Screening Checklist
- Do You Need an NDA Before Pitching Your Invention?
- How to License or Sell Your Patent
- How Much Does a Patent Cost in 2026?
- 35 U.S.C. § 103: Patent Obviousness, Explained
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
- You Received a UDRP Complaint: How to Keep Your Domain
- 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
- How to File a Trademark Abroad Under Madrid
- 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
- Copyright Termination Rights: The 35-Year Rule, Explained
The Trade Secret Protection Playbook
- The Trade Secret Protection Playbook: A Founder's Guide
- How to Inventory Your Company's Trade Secrets
- The Reasonable Secrecy Measures Checklist
- Protecting Trade Secrets When Employees Leave
- Trade Secret Stolen? What to Do First
- Non-Competes and Trade Secrets in 2026
- Trade Secret Damages and Remedies
- Protecting Trade Secrets With Contractors & Overseas
- The Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), Explained
Name, Image & Likeness: The Right of Publicity
- Name, Image & Likeness: The Right of Publicity Guide
- What Is the Right of Publicity?
- College Athlete NIL Deals: How They Work
- Influencer & Creator Likeness Rights
- Using Someone Else's Likeness in Advertising
- AI Deepfakes and Your Right of Publicity
- Post-Mortem Right of Publicity
- Right of Publicity by State: A 2026 Map
Patent Enforcement & Monetization
IP Diligence for Fundraising & M&A
Open Source & Software IP
Accused of IP Infringement: What to Do
- Accused of IP Infringement: What to Do (and Not Do) First
- I Got a Copyright Demand Letter: Now What?
- The Copyright Claims Board: Small Claims for Copyright, Explained
- You Received a Trademark Cease-and-Desist Letter. Don't Panic.
- DMCA Counter-Notice: How to Fight a Wrongful Takedown
- Sued for Copyright Infringement: The First 30 Days
- Sued for Trademark Infringement: What Happens Next
- Copyright Statutory Damages: What You Could Actually Owe
- An IP Complaint Took Down Your Amazon or Etsy Listing: How to Fight Back
- Does Insurance Cover IP Claims? ‘Advertising Injury’ Explained
Copyright for Online Creators: The Platform Survival Guide
- Copyright for Online Creators: The Platform Survival Guide
- YouTube Copyright Claim vs. Strike (and How Content ID Actually Works)
- Music on Twitch: What Gets You DMCA'd (and What's Actually Safe)
- TikTok Sounds and Commercial Use: What Brands and Creators Can't Do
- Are Reaction Videos Fair Use? The Honest Answer
- Streaming Video Games: Why It's Technically Infringement (and Why It's Allowed Anyway)
- Cover Songs on YouTube and Streaming: How Licensing Actually Works
- Is Selling Fan Art Legal? What Every Artist Should Know
- Using Movie and TV Clips in Your Videos: How Much Is Actually Fair Use?
Who Owns What You Create at Work?
- Who Owns What You Create at Work? Employee IP, Explained
- Work Made for Hire, Actually Explained
- Invention Assignment Agreements: What You're Actually Signing Away
- Can My Employer Claim My Side Project?
- California Labor Code § 2870: The Employee Invention Shield
- Contractor vs. Employee: Who Owns the IP?
- Who Owns Student and Professor Inventions? University IP, Explained
- Quitting to Start a Competitor: The IP Checklist
Fighting Copycat Products: Trade Dress, Design Patents & Dupes
- Fighting Copycat Products: Trade Dress, Design Patents & Dupes
- How to Protect Your Product's Look: A Founder's Playbook
- Are Dupes Legal? The Law Behind Dupe Culture
- Knockoffs vs. Counterfeits: Where the Legal Line Actually Sits
- Protecting Packaging and Product Appearance: A Layered Strategy
- Can You Copyright a Clothing Design? Fashion, Jewelry & Furniture IP
- ITC Section 337: The Exclusion Order That Stops Copycats at the Border
IP Strategy: Building & Managing a Portfolio
- IP Strategy: Building & Managing a Portfolio That Earns Its Keep
- In-House vs. Outside IP Counsel: When to Hire (and What It Costs)
- Freedom-to-Operate Searches, Explained: Can You Actually Ship That Product?
- IP Holding Companies: Structure, Benefits, and the Traps
- How Intellectual Property Gets Valued (Cost, Market, and Income Methods)
- Invention Disclosure Programs: Capturing IP Before It Walks Out the Door
- IP Budgeting: What Protection Should Cost at Each Company Stage
- Patent Landscaping: Mapping the Competitive Terrain Before You Build
- How Much Does an IP Lawyer Cost in 2026?
What Is Intellectual Property?
- What Is Intellectual Property? A Plain-English Explanation
- The 4 Types of Intellectual Property (Plus the One Everyone Forgets)
- How Long Does IP Protection Last? Every Term, Explained
- ™, ®, ©, and “Patent Pending”: What the Symbols Actually Mean
- What Counts as IP Infringement? (And What Doesn't)
- 10 Intellectual Property Myths That Get People in Trouble
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
- 16 Casa Duse v. Merkin: The Dominant Author and Who Owns a Film
- A 0.23-Second Split: VMG Salsoul v. Ciccone and the De Minimis Defense for Sampling
- 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
- A&M Records v. Napster: Contributory and Vicarious Liability in the P2P Era
- 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
- Apple v. Franklin: The Decision That Made Object Code Copyrightable
- Arnstein v. Porter: The Two-Step Framework Behind Every Substantial Similarity Test
- Authors Guild v. Google: Book Scanning and Snippets as Transformative Fair Use
- Authors Guild v. HathiTrust: Mass Digitization for Search and Accessibility
- Authorship Without an Author: Thaler v. Perlmutter and the Human Floor of Copyright
- Bartz v. Anthropic: Transformative Training, Unforgivable Acquisition
- Bikram's Yoga v. Evolation: A Sequence of Poses Is a System, Not Expression
- Bill Graham Archives v. Dorling Kindersley: When Copying Whole Works as Historical Artifacts Is Fair Use
- Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing: Circus Posters, Originality, and the Anti-Discrimination Principle
- Bobbs-Merrill v. Straus: The Birth of the First-Sale Doctrine
- Bots, Warden, and the Two Halves of § 1201: MDY Industries v. Blizzard
- Brammer v. Violent Hues: The Fourth Circuit Ends the Found-It-on-Google Fair Use Defense
- Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs: Subconscious Copying Is Still Infringement
- Building Blocks, Not Theft: Gray v. Hudson and Katy Perry's 'Dark Horse' Ostinato
- 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
- Castle Rock v. Carol Publishing: Seinfeld Trivia, Fictional Facts, and the Derivative Markets a Copyright Owner Never Entered
- Classic Media v. Mewborn: When a Later Re-Grant Cannot Kill a Termination Right
- Climbing Down: Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin and the End of the Inverse Ratio Rule
- Code, Keys, and the First Amendment: Universal City Studios v. Corley
- 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
- Effects Associates v. Cohen: Moviemakers Do Lunch, Not Contracts, and the Implied License Was Born
- Eldred v. Ashcroft: The Supreme Court Upholds the 20-Year Copyright Extension
- Elementary, After All: Klinger v. Conan Doyle Estate and the Public-Domain Character
- Estate of MLK v. CBS: The I Have a Dream Speech and Limited Publication
- 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
- Getty v. Stability AI: Why an AI Model Is Not an Infringing Copy
- 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
- Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises: Unpublished Works and the Limits of Fair Use
- Herbert Rosenthal Jewelry v. Kalpakian: The Jeweled Bee That Built the Merger Doctrine
- Hollywood Sues the Image Machine: Disney and Universal v. Midjourney
- 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
- Ink on Trial: Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg and the Fight Over Tattoos, Photographs, and the Ninth Circuit's Similarity Test
- 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
- Kelley v. Chicago Park District: Why a Living Garden Cannot Be Copyrighted
- Kienitz v. Sconnie Nation: The Seventh Circuit's Case Against Transformative Use
- 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
- MAI Systems v. Peak: When Loading Software Into RAM Became a Copy
- Mavrix v. LiveJournal: When Volunteer Moderators Put the DMCA Safe Harbor at Risk
- Mazer v. Stein: Art Keeps Its Copyright Even as a Lamp Base
- Meshwerks v. Toyota: When a Digital Copy Is Too Faithful for Copyright
- MGM v. Grokster: The Inducement Rule for Secondary Copyright Liability
- Murphy v. Millennium Radio: Copyright Management Information Beyond the Digital
- New York Times Co. v. Tasini: Freelancers Keep Their Electronic Rights
- Newton v. Diamond: De Minimis Sampling and the Composition the Beastie Boys Never Licensed
- 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
- Open Source Gets Teeth: Jacobsen v. Katzer and the Power of License Conditions
- 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
- Penguin v. Steinbeck: How a Renegotiated Contract Erased a Termination Right
- Perfect 10 v. Amazon: The Server Test and Transformative Thumbnails in Image Search
- Perfect 10 v. CCBill: The Ninth Circuit's Baseline for DMCA Notices, Red Flags, and Repeat Infringers
- Petrella v. MGM: Why Laches Cannot Shorten the Copyright Damages Window
- Quality King v. L'anza: First Sale Trumps the Importation Right
- Random House v. Rosetta Books: Why a Grant of Rights 'In Book Form' Did Not Include Ebooks
- Raw Story v. OpenAI: Article III Standing Halts a DMCA Training Claim
- Recording Artists at the Termination Gate: Waite v. UMG Recordings
- Reusing the Interface: Google v. Oracle and Fair Use for Software APIs
- Rogers v. Koons: When Appropriation Art Is Infringement, Not Parody
- RTC v. Netcom: The Volitional-Conduct Rule That Shaped ISP Liability
- Sheldon v. MGM: The Supreme Court Invents Profit Apportionment
- Sony v. Connectix: Reverse Engineering as Fair Use
- Spanski v. Telewizja Polska: A Foreign Broadcaster's Stream Lands Inside U.S. Copyright
- Stevens v. CoreLogic: The Double Scienter Rule for Stripped Metadata
- Stewart v. Abend: Renewal Rights Trump a Dead Author's Derivative-Work Grant
- 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
- Suntrust Bank v. Houghton Mifflin: The Wind Done Gone, Parody, and Prior Restraint
- The 44% Raise the D.C. Circuit Sent Back: Johnson v. Copyright Royalty Board
- The Betamax Bargain: Sony v. Universal and the Right to Record at Home
- The Camera Has an Author: Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony
- 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 Record Labels Take On AI Music: UMG and Sony v. Suno and Udio
- 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
- Thomson v. Larson: The Dramaturg of Rent and the Intent to Be Co-Authors
- To the Batmobile: How DC Comics v. Towle Made a Car a Copyrightable Character
- Tremblay v. OpenAI: The Pleading Bar for Output-Based Infringement
- Twin Books v. Disney: How Bambi Survived a Missing Copyright Notice
- Two Hands, One Author: Childress v. Taylor and the Intent Test for Joint Authorship
- Warner Bros. v. X One X: Public Domain Posters, Still-Protected Film Characters
- Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy: The Supreme Court Unshackles Copyright Damages From the Three-Year Window
- What Makes a Photograph Original: Mannion v. Coors and the Rendition-Timing-Composition Test
- What Survives the Filter: The Ninth Circuit's 'Top Gun: Maverick' Decision and the Limits of Substantial Similarity
- Whelan v. Jaslow: When Software Copyright Reached Structure, Sequence, and Organization
- When a Bundle Beats the Blanket: The MLC's Section 115 Royalty Fight With Spotify
- When Expression Runs Out: Morrissey v. Procter & Gamble and the Merger Doctrine
- 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
- When the Pipe Becomes Liable: UMG v. Grande and the ISP Repeat-Infringer Problem
- 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 Gets to Sue: DRK Photo v. McGraw-Hill and the Limits of Assigning a Copyright Claim
- Who Keeps the Royalties: Mills Music v. Snyder and the Derivative Works Exception to Termination
- Who Owns the Statue? CCNV v. Reid and the Birth of the Agency Test
- Who Presses Record? Cartoon Network v. Cablevision and the Volitional-Conduct Rule
- Win Like a Plaintiff, Lose Like One Too: Fogerty v. Fantasy and the Evenhanded Fee Rule
- Words, Pictures, and Joint Ownership: Gaiman v. McFarlane and the Co-Authored Comic Character
- Yellow Submarine, Hard Borders: Subafilms v. MGM-Pathe and the Limits of U.S. Copyright Abroad
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'
- Advertised Here, Served Abroad: International Bancorp v. SBM and Foreign-Mark Use in Commerce
- Already v. Nike: When a Covenant Not to Sue Moots a Trademark Challenge
- American Rice v. Arkansas Rice Growers: The Lanham Act Reaches Sales in Saudi Arabia
- Arcona v. Farmacy Beauty: Counterfeiting Still Requires Likelihood of Confusion
- At the Border of Genuine: K Mart v. Cartier and the Gray-Market Compromise
- Bayer v. United Drug: How "Aspirin" Became a Generic Word
- 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
- Bosley Medical v. Kremer: Gripe Sites, Commercial Use, and the ACPA's Longer Reach
- Brandy Melville v. Redbubble: The Ninth Circuit Sets the Knowledge Bar for Marketplace Liability
- Burger King v. Hoots: How a 20-Mile Circle Around Mattoon Froze a Junior User
- Champion Spark Plug v. Sanders: When Reconditioned Goods Can Keep the Original Mark
- Chewy Vuiton and the Limits of Dilution: Louis Vuitton v. Haute Diggity Dog
- Coca-Cola v. Koke: How a Descriptive Name Became a Protectable Mark
- Coca-Cola v. Tropicana: The Literal-Falsity Shortcut in False Advertising
- 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
- E.S.S. v. Rock Star: Rogers Reaches Video Games and the Bar Is Above Zero
- Elliott v. Google: Why Verbing a Brand Does Not Kill the Trademark
- Ezaki Glico v. Lotte: The Third Circuit Says Functional Means Useful, and Pocky Loses Its Trade Dress
- First in Time, Not First Everywhere: United Drug v. Rectanus and Territorial Trademark Rights
- FreecycleSunnyvale v. Freecycle Network: How Naked Licensing Kills a Trademark
- GoPets v. Hise: Re-Registration Is Not 'Registration' Under the ACPA
- 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
- Holding a Brand Hostage: Panavision v. Toeppen and Cybersquatting as Trademark Dilution
- Hosting Counterfeit: Louis Vuitton v. Akanoc and the Liability of the Server Beneath the Storefront
- Iancu v. Brunetti: Striking the Lanham Act's 'Immoral or Scandalous' Trademark Bar
- In re Chestek: When a Trademark Refusal Turns on Administrative Law, Not Trademark Law
- In re E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.: The Thirteen Factors Behind Every Likelihood of Confusion Refusal
- In re Rath: Section 44 Filings Still Must Clear the Surname Bar
- In re Siny Corp.: When a Webpage Specimen Is Just Advertising
- In re Vox Populi Registry Ltd.: When .SUCKS Fails to Function as a Mark
- Incontestability Means Incontestable: Park 'N Fly v. Dollar Park and Fly
- INS v. AP: The Birth of Hot-News Misappropriation
- Inwood v. Ives: The Two-Part Test That Defines Contributory Trademark Infringement
- Ironhawk v. Dropbox: How Reverse Confusion Reframes the Strength of a Mark
- ITC v. Punchgini: The Second Circuit Refuses to Find a Famous-Marks Doctrine in Federal Law
- Kellogg v. National Biscuit: Why 'Shredded Wheat' Belongs to Everyone
- KFC v. Diversified Packaging: Approved Suppliers, Quality Control, and the Limits of Tying
- KP Permanent v. Lasting Impression: Fair Use Need Not Negate Confusion
- Lamparello v. Falwell: A Misspelled Domain, a Gripe Site, and the Limits of Cybersquatting Law
- Larry Harmon Pictures v. Williams Restaurant: One Barbecue Joint Is Enough for Use in Commerce
- Lever Bros. v. United States: The Lever Rule and the Gray Market's Material-Difference Line
- LEXIS Meets LEXUS: Mead Data v. Toyota and the Six-Factor Test for Dilution by Blurring
- Lexmark Comes to the TTAB: Corcamore v. SFM and the New Test for Cancellation Standing
- Lexmark v. Static Control: The Two-Part Test for Who May Sue for False Advertising
- Lodestar v. Bacardi: What a Madrid Protocol Registration Is Actually Worth
- 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
- Nichino v. Valent: The TMA's Irreparable Harm Presumption Bursts Like a Bubble
- Nissan v. Nissan Computer: Dilution Fame Is Measured at the Defendant's First Use
- No Proprietary Right Required: Australian Therapeutic v. Naked TM and Standing to Cancel
- No Willfulness, No Profits: Lindy Pen v. Bic and the Limits of Trademark Recovery
- 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
- Piano Factory v. Schiedmayer: False Suggestion of Connection and a Constitutional Test for the TTAB
- Pinkette v. Cosmetic Warriors: Laches Survives as a Full Trademark Defense After SCA Hygiene
- Preparation Is Not Performance: Aycock Engineering v. Airflite
- Race to the Market: Blue Bell v. Farah and the Bona Fide Use That Wins Trademark Priority
- 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
- Reebok v. Marnatech: Extraterritorial Reach and Asset Freezes in Counterfeiting
- Rejection Is Breach, Not Rescission: Mission Product Holdings v. Tempnology and the Survival of Trademark Licenses in Bankruptcy
- Rescuecom v. Google: Selling a Trademark as a Keyword Is 'Use in Commerce'
- Ritchie v. Simpson: Who May Oppose a Trademark at the TTAB
- 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
- San Francisco Arts & Athletics v. USOC: Why Congress Could Give the Word "Olympic" Away
- 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
- Stone Creek v. Omnia: Knowledge Defeats Good Faith in the Tea Rose-Rectanus Defense
- T.A.B. Systems v. PacTel Teletrac: Pre-Sales Publicity Counts Only If the Public Was Actually Reached
- The Billboard at the Exit: Brookfield v. West Coast and Initial Interest Confusion Online
- 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 Lapp Factors: How Interpace v. Lapp Built the Third Circuit's Confusion Test
- The Shape of a Spray Bottle: In re Morton-Norwich and the Functionality Factors
- 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
- Two Statutes, One Label: POM Wonderful v. Coca-Cola and Lanham Act Claims Over FDA-Regulated Food
- Vans v. MSCHF: The Wavy Baby Gives Jack Daniel's Its First Appellate Test
- Vidal v. Elster: A Unanimous Judgment, a Divided Court, and the Limits of History
- Virgin Enterprises v. Nawab: How Mark Strength Drives the Polaroid Analysis
- Visa v. JSL: Why a Common Dictionary Word Can Still Be Diluted by Blurring
- Waits v. Frito-Lay: A Distinctive Voice and the Birth of False Endorsement
- Wal-Mart v. Samara Brothers: Product Design Is Never Inherently Distinctive
- Wallace Silversmiths v. Godinger: Aesthetic Functionality and the Limits of Owning a Style
- When a Generic Word Buys a Domain: USPTO v. Booking.com and the Limits of Per Se Genericness
- When a Joke Is Also a Brand: Jack Daniel's v. VIP Products and the Limits of Rogers
- 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
- When the Trademark Is the Tie: Siegel v. Chicken Delight and Franchise Antitrust Risk
- Where U.S. Trademark Law Stops at the Border: Vanity Fair Mills v. T. Eaton Co.
- Who Decides Priority: Hana Financial v. Hana Bank and the Jury's Role in Trademark Tacking
- Zatarain's v. Oak Grove Smokehouse: The Four Tests That Draw the Descriptive Line
- 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
- Amazon v. Barnesandnoble.com: A Substantial Question of Validity Defeats an Injunction
- American Axle v. Neapco: When a Natural Law Sank a Manufacturing Patent
- Amgen v. Sanofi: The Enablement Tax on Functional Genus Claims
- Anything Under the Sun Made by Man: Diamond v. Chakrabarty and Patents on Life
- Apple v. Fintiv: The Six Factors That Reshaped PTAB Institution
- 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
- Ariosa Diagnostics v. Sequenom: A Groundbreaking Diagnostic Falls to the Mayo Rule
- Aro v. Convertible Top: Where Permissible Repair Ends and Reconstruction Begins
- Believing a Patent Is Invalid Is No Defense: Commil USA v. Cisco Systems
- Berkheimer v. HP: Patent Eligibility Can Turn on a Question of Fact
- 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
- Bringing Home the Bacon: HIP v. Hormel and the High Bar for Joint Inventorship
- Burroughs Wellcome v. Barr: Conception and the Inventorship of AZT
- Caraco v. Novo Nordisk: A Counterclaim to Police the Orange Book
- Celanese v. ITC: The On-Sale Bar Survives the AIA for Secret Processes
- Chef America v. Lamb-Weston: When Claims Mean Exactly What They Say
- ClearCorrect v. ITC: Why a Data Stream Is Not an 'Article'
- Clones, Not Kinds: Imazio Nursery v. Dania Greenhouses and the Narrow Reach of Plant Patents
- Comcast v. ITC: Domestic Conduct, Imported Boxes, and Section 337's Long Reach
- Continental Paper Bag v. Eastern: The Non-Practicing Patentee's Right to an Injunction
- Corn in the Mainstream Patent System: J.E.M. Ag Supply v. Pioneer Hi-Bred and the Utility Patent for Plants
- Counting, Not Adjectives: Lelo v. ITC and the Quantitative Economic Prong of Section 337
- Curver v. Home Expressions: A Design Patent Protects a Pattern On Its Article
- Dana-Farber v. Ono: Joint Inventorship and the PD-1 Immunotherapy Patents
- Datamize v. Plumtree: Why Aesthetically Pleasing Was Fatally Indefinite
- DDR Holdings v. Hotels.com: The First Post-Alice Win for an Internet Patent
- Deepsouth v. Laitram: The Loophole That Built §271(f)
- Delano Farms v. Table Grape Commission: Secret Vines and the Public Use Bar
- Diamond v. Diehr: A Computer-Run Industrial Process Is Patent-Eligible
- 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
- Egbert v. Lippmann: How One Hidden Corset Spring Defined Public Use
- Egyptian Goddess v. Swisa: How the Federal Circuit Killed the Point-of-Novelty Test
- Element by Element: Warner-Jenkinson v. Hilton Davis and the Survival of the Doctrine of Equivalents
- Eli Lilly v. Medtronic: The Section 271(e)(1) Safe Harbor Reaches Devices
- Enfish v. Microsoft: Software Can Clear Alice Step One as a Real Technological Improvement
- Ericsson v. D-Link: How RAND Royalties Are Actually Tried
- 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
- First Filed, First Protected: Allergan v. MSN and the Limits of Obviousness-Type Double Patenting
- FTC v. Qualcomm: No Antitrust Duty to License Standard Essential Patents
- Funk Brothers Seed v. Kalo: When a Mixture of Natural Bacteria Is Not Patentable
- Genes Are Not Inventions: AMP v. Myriad Genetics and the Limits of DNA Patents
- Global-Tech v. SEB: Willful Blindness and the Knowledge Element of Induced Infringement
- Gorham v. White: The 1871 Decision That Still Decides Design-Patent Infringement
- Gottschalk v. Benson: Why a Pure Algorithm Cannot Be Patented
- Grace Instrument v. Chandler: When the Specification, Not the Dictionary, Decides Definiteness
- Graver Tank v. Linde: The Doctrine of Equivalents and the Function-Way-Result Test
- Halo Electronics v. Pulse: Restoring District-Court Discretion Over Enhanced Damages
- Helsinn v. Teva: A Secret Sale Still Counts Under the America Invents Act
- Hotchkiss v. Greenwood: The Doorknob Case That Invented Nonobviousness
- 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
- Impression Products v. Lexmark: One Authorized Sale Exhausts All Patent Rights
- In re Brana: Patent Utility Does Not Require FDA-Level Proof
- 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 Hilmer: Foreign Priority as a Shield, Not a Sword
- In re Klopfenstein: When a Conference Poster Becomes a 'Printed Publication'
- In re SurgiSil: A Design Claim Is Tied to Its Article of Manufacture
- In re Wands: The Eight Factors That Define Undue Experimentation
- 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
- Kappos v. Hyatt: New Evidence and De Novo Review in Section 145 Suits
- Kimble v. Marvel: Stare Decisis and the Ban on Post-Expiration Patent Royalties
- Kingsdown v. Hollister: Gross Negligence Is Not Intent to Deceive
- KSR v. Teleflex: The Day the Rigid Obviousness Test Died
- Kyocera v. ITC: The Limits of a Limited Exclusion Order
- LaserDynamics v. Quanta: How the Entire Market Value Rule Became a Narrow Exception
- Lear v. Adkins: The End of Licensee Estoppel and the Right to Challenge a Patent
- Life Technologies v. Promega: One Component Is Not a 'Substantial Portion' Abroad
- LKQ v. GM: The Federal Circuit Dismantles the Design-Patent Obviousness Test
- Lowell v. Lewis: Justice Story and the Minimal Utility Standard
- Mayo v. Prometheus: How a Diagnostic Method Became a Law of Nature
- McRO v. Bandai Namco: When Software Rules Survive Alice at Step One
- MedImmune v. Genentech: A Licensee Can Sue Without Breaching First
- 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
- Minerva Surgical v. Hologic: Assignor Estoppel Survives, but Only Within Its Fairness Limits
- Natera v. NeoGenomics: Causal Nexus and the Equity of a Two-Player Market
- Nautilus v. Biosig: The Birth of 'Reasonable Certainty' in Patent Definiteness
- Net MoneyIN v. VeriSign: Anticipation Requires the Elements Arranged as Claimed
- No Inducement Without a Direct Infringer: Limelight Networks v. Akamai
- No Injury, No Antitrust Case: Continental v. Avanci and the Auto Supplier Locked Out of SEP Licenses
- No Single-Entity Shield: Syngenta v. Willowood and Importation Under Section 271(g)
- O'Reilly v. Morse: The Limits of Functional Claiming and the Fatal Eighth Claim
- Octane Fitness v. ICON Health: Loosening the Standard for Attorney Fees in Patent Cases
- Oil States v. Greene's Energy: Why the Supreme Court Let the PTAB Cancel Patents
- Panduit v. Stahlin: The Four-Factor Test for Lost-Profits Damages
- Pannu v. Iolab: The Three-Part Test for Who Counts as a Joint Inventor
- Parker v. Flook: Post-Solution Activity Cannot Save an Algorithm
- Paying to Delay: FTC v. Actavis and the Antitrust Reckoning for Reverse-Payment Settlements
- Pfaff v. Wells Electronics: When an Idea Becomes 'Ready for Patenting'
- Planting Is Making: Bowman v. Monsanto and Patent Exhaustion for Self-Replicating Seeds
- Possession, Not Just Promise: Ariad v. Eli Lilly and the Separate Written-Description Requirement
- Quanta Computer v. LG Electronics: Patent Exhaustion Reaches Method Claims and Component Sales
- 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
- Return Mail v. USPS: A Federal Agency Is Not a 'Person' at the PTAB
- Rite-Hite v. Kelley: Foreseeable Lost Profits and the Limits of Convoyed Sales
- 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
- Same Article, Same Comparison: Columbia Sportswear v. Seirus and Design-Patent Prior Art
- 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
- Some Connection Is Enough: Apple v. Samsung and the Softened Causal-Nexus Test for Injunctions
- Sonix v. Publications International: How a Term of Degree Survives
- Sonos v. Google: When a Long-Pending Utility Patent Becomes Unenforceable
- Spansion v. ITC: Why eBay Does Not Reach Section 337 Remedies
- 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
- Teva v. Amneal: Device Patents Do Not Belong in the Orange Book
- Thaler v. Vidal: Why a Machine Cannot Be a Named Inventor (Yet)
- The Clock You Cannot Appeal: Thryv v. Click-To-Call and the Unreviewable Time Bar
- The Door That Stays Shut: Cuozzo Speed v. Lee, Unreviewable Institution, and Broadest Reasonable Interpretation
- The Fifteen Factors That Run Patent Damages: Georgia-Pacific v. U.S. Plywood
- The Flexible Bar Survives: Festo v. Shoketsu Kinzoku and the Limits of Estoppel
- The Incandescent Lamp Patent: When a Genus Claim Outruns Its Disclosure
- The Metabolite Problem: Schering v. Geneva and Inherent Anticipation of What the Body Makes
- 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
- The Test That Still Governs: Graham v. John Deere and the Anatomy of Obviousness
- Thorner v. Sony: The Two Exceptions to Plain and Ordinary Meaning
- 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
- Voda v. Cordis: No Supplemental Jurisdiction Over Foreign Patents
- When 'A' Still Means 'One or More': Salazar v. AT&T Mobility and the Trap in 'Said'
- 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
- When the Invention Can't Work: In re Swartz, Cold Fusion, and the Operability Requirement
- 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
- Williamson v. Citrix: The Nonce-Word Trap in Functional Claiming
- Words of Degree Are Not Automatically Indefinite: Niazi v. St. Jude Medical
- Wyeth v. Abbott: One Species, Tens of Thousands of Claims, and Undue Experimentation
- Yita v. MacNeil: When Commercial Success Cannot Rescue an Obvious Claim
- Yoder Brothers v. California-Florida Plant: The Charter of Plant Patent Law
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
- A Secret Built From Public Parts: Metallurgical Industries v. Fourtek and the Combination Trade Secret
- A Signature Is Not a Strategy: nClosures v. Block and Why an NDA Alone Won't Save Your Secrets
- Abrasic 90 v. Weldcote Metals: Real Secrets, No Protection, No Injunction
- Advanced Fluid Systems v. Huber: Possession, Not Ownership, Confers Standing to Sue
- Ahern Rentals v. EquipmentShare: Pleading Trade Secret Theft on Information and Belief
- Altavion v. Konica Minolta: When Ideas Themselves Are Protectable Trade Secrets
- 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
- Atlantic Research v. Troy: The Line Between Patent and Trade Secret
- ATS Tree Services v. FTC: The Court That Let the Non-Compete Ban Stand
- 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
- Avoided Costs as Unjust Enrichment: Computer Sciences Corp. v. Tata and a $168 Million Affirmance
- 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
- BondPro v. Siemens: A Patent Application Can Vaporize a Trade Secret
- 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
- Cadence Design Systems v. Avant!: Continuing Misappropriation Is a Single Claim
- California Slams the Door on Inevitable Disclosure: Whyte v. Schlage Lock
- Caudill Seed v. Jarrow Formulas: When a Researcher Carries the Library Out the Door
- Celeritas v. Rockwell: The NDA That Outlived an Invalid Patent
- Cellular Accessories v. Trinitas: Are a Salesman's LinkedIn Connections His, or the Company's?
- Chicago Lock v. Fanberg: Why Reverse Engineering Is Not Improper Means
- 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
- Crossing the State Line Won't Erase Your Noncompete: DraftKings v. Hermalyn and the Choice-of-Law Battle
- Digital Assurance v. Pendolino: The Merits Gate on DTSA Seizure
- dmarcian v. dmarcian Europe: The DTSA Reaches Across Borders
- DoubleClick v. Henderson: Tailoring an Injunction to a Secret's Shelf Life
- 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
- Ed Nowogroski Insurance v. Rucker: Why Memorizing a Customer List Is Still Theft
- Edwards v. Arthur Andersen: California Closes the Door on the 'Narrow-Restraint' Exception
- Epic Systems v. Tata: Due Process Caps Trade-Secret Punitive Damages
- Fail-Safe v. A.O. Smith: No NDA, No Trade Secret
- 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
- InteliClear v. ETC Global: When Must a DTSA Plaintiff Pin Down Its Trade Secrets?
- Inventus Power v. Shenzhen Ace: The DTSA Follows Trade Secrets to China
- Kadant v. Seeley: Reverse Engineering as a Complete Answer
- Learning Curve Toys v. PlayWood: Reasonable Secrecy Is a Jury Question
- 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
- Mattel v. MGA Entertainment: Who Owns an Employee's Idea?
- Metallizing Engineering v. Kenyon Bearing: Secret Commercial Use Forfeits the Patent
- 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
- Name the Secret or Lose: Double Eagle Alloys v. Hooper and the Particularity Trap
- No Damages, Still Liable: Applied Medical v. Jarrells and the Costs of Cleaning Up a Trade-Secret Theft
- No Particularity at the Starting Line: Quintara Biosciences v. Ruifeng and DTSA Identification
- 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
- Peggy Lawton Kitchens v. Hogan: When a Cookie Recipe Is a Trade Secret
- PepsiCo v. Redmond: The Case That Built the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine
- Reliable Fire v. Arredondo: Non-Competes and the Legitimate Business Interest
- REXA v. Chester: A Shelved Prototype Is Not a Trade Secret a Decade Later
- Rockwell v. DEV Industries: Posner Makes Secrecy a Cost-Benefit Problem
- Ruckelshaus v. Monsanto: When a Trade Secret Becomes Fifth Amendment Property
- 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
- Secrets Beneath the House: United States v. Chung and the First Economic Espionage Trial Conviction
- 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
- Solar Connect v. Endicott: When a Court Grants a DTSA Civil Seizure
- 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
- Teradyne v. Clear Communications: The Limits of Inevitable Disclosure
- The 'Same Nucleus of Facts': K.C. Multimedia v. Bank of America and the Birth of CUTSA Supersession
- The Biggest Trade Secret Crime He Had Ever Seen: United States v. Levandowski
- The Botox Rival Case: Section 337 Reaches Foreign Trade-Secret Theft
- The DTSA's First Test: Henry Schein v. Cook and Why Courts Reach for a TRO, Not Seizure
- TianRui v. ITC: How Section 337 Reached a Theft That Happened in China
- Trade Shows as a Toehold: Motorola v. Hytera and the DTSA's Reach Across Borders
- Turret Labs v. CargoSprint: When Locking the Windows Isn't Enough
- United States v. Agrawal: When Printing the Code Made It a Crime
- 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. Hsu: Legal Impossibility Is No Defense Under the EEA
- 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
- Unum Group v. Loftus: The First Test of DTSA Whistleblower Immunity
- vPersonalize v. Magnetize: How a U.S. Court Reached a U.K. Defendant Under the DTSA
- Warner-Lambert v. Reynolds: The Listerine Royalty That Never Ends
- Wexler v. Greenberg: An Employer Cannot Claim Its Chemist's Own Skill as a Secret
- What a Willing Buyer Would Pay: University Computing v. Lykes-Youngstown and the Reasonable Royalty
- What Counts as 'Confidential': Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader and the Rewrite of FOIA Exemption 4
- When 'Everything Is a Trade Secret' Is Nothing: Sysco Machinery v. DCS USA
- When a Bot Crosses the Line: Compulife v. Newman and Scraping as Improper Means
- When a Confidentiality Clause Becomes a Federal Violation: The SEC's $18 Million J.P. Morgan Whistleblower Order
- When an NDA Tries to Lock Up Everything: TLS Management v. Rodríguez-Toledo and the Overbroad Confidentiality Trap
- 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
- When the Trade-Secret Statute Swallows the Tort: BlueEarth Biofuels v. Hawaiian Electric and UTSA Preemption
- Winston Research v. 3M: The Origin of the Head-Start Injunction
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 Hockey Enforcer, a Comic-Book Villain: Doe v. TCI Cablevision and the Predominant Purpose Test
- A Release Is Not a License to All: Electra v. 59 Murray Enterprises and the Models Whose Images Sold the Nightclub
- A Tattoo on the Wrong Back: Brophy v. Almanzar and Cardi B's Mixtape Cover
- Ali v. Playgirl: A Drawing Can Be a Likeness
- Are You Experienced, After Death? The Ninth Circuit, Jimi Hendrix, and the Post-Mortem Right of Publicity
- Astaire v. Best Film & Video: The Film Exemption That Reshaped California's Post-Mortem Statute
- 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
- C.B.C. v. MLB Advanced Media: Fantasy Baseball and Free Speech
- California's Digital-Replica Statutes: AB 2602 and AB 1836 Split the Living from the Dead
- Cardtoons v. MLBPA: Parody Trading Cards Beat the Right of Publicity
- Davis v. Electronic Arts: Retired NFL Players, the Incidental-Use Defense, and the Limits of First Amendment Cover
- Diana's Domicile Decides: Cairns v. Franklin Mint and the Limits of Post-Mortem Publicity
- Downing v. Abercrombie & Fitch: Owning the Photo Is Not Owning the People In It
- Dracula Dies With the Actor: Lugosi v. Universal and the Birth of the Descendibility Debate
- Einstein's Image, Fifty Years On: Hebrew University v. General Motors and the Limits of Post-Mortem Publicity
- Elvis Presley Foundation v. Crowell: Publicity Survives Death in Tennessee
- 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
- Flour of the Family: How Roberson v. Rochester Folding Box Denied Privacy and Forced a Statute
- Fraley v. Facebook: When Ordinary Users' Endorsements Acquire Commercial Value
- Groucho Marx Productions v. Day and Night: How Domicile at Death Decides a Publicity Estate
- Hart v. Electronic Arts: The Transformative-Use Test and an Athlete's Likeness in a Video Game
- Hilton v. Hallmark Cards: When a Catchphrase Defeats a First Amendment Defense
- House v. NCAA: The Settlement That Made College Athletes Paid Licensors
- Hugga-Hugga, Brrr, and the Limits of Voice: Tin Pan Apple v. Miller Brewing
- Identity Is Not a Work of Authorship: Toney v. L'Oréal and the Limits of Copyright Preemption
- In re Clearview AI: An Equity Stake to Settle Faceprint Scraping
- Johnson v. NCAA: Can a College Athlete Be an Employee?
- Jordan v. Jewel Food Stores: When a Congratulatory Ad Is Commercial Speech
- 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
- Laws v. Sony: When Copyright Preempts a Voice Claim
- 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
- Matthews v. Wozencraft: Why Texas Misappropriation Does Not Protect a Life Story
- 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
- Motschenbacher v. R.J. Reynolds: Identifiability Beyond the Face
- NCAA v. Alston: A Unanimous Court Removes Amateurism's Shield
- Newcombe v. Coors: A Pitcher's Windup and the 'Readily Identifiable' Standard
- No Cut of the Broadcast: Marshall v. ESPN and the Limits of an Athlete's Right of Publicity
- No Doubt v. Activision: Literal Avatars Are Not Transformative Use
- 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
- Ohio v. NCAA: The Antitrust Injunction That Freed College Transfers
- Oliveira v. Frito-Lay: A Signature Performance Is Not a Trademark
- Pavia v. NCAA: Lost NIL Earnings as the Antitrust Injury in College Eligibility
- Price-Fixing in the Recruiting Market: Tennessee v. NCAA and the Injunction Against the NIL Ban
- Ratermann v. Pierre Fabre: A New York Publicity Claim, an Exceeded License, and Section 230
- Raw Material or the Whole Point: Comedy III and the Birth of the Transformative-Use Test
- Resurrecting a Comedian by Algorithm: Main Sequence v. Dudesy and the George Carlin AI Special
- Robots at the Cheers Bar: Wendt, Animatronics, and the Persona of a Role
- Ross v. Roberts: A Rapper's Borrowed Name as Transformative Expression
- Shaw Family Archives v. CMG Worldwide: You Cannot Will a Right That Did Not Exist
- Sinatra v. Goodyear: When a Music License Defeats a Voice Claim
- Stephano v. News Group: New York's Statute-Only Regime and the Newsworthiness Line
- Stories Taken from Life: Sarver v. Chartier and the First Amendment Shield for Films
- The Birth of a Right: Haelan Laboratories v. Topps and the Invention of the Right of Publicity
- The ELVIS Act: Tennessee Makes 'Voice' a Protected Property Right Against AI Cloning
- The First Right to Be Let Alone: Pavesich v. New England Life and the Birth of the Privacy Tort
- 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
- Walters v. OpenAI: The First Merits Ruling on AI Hallucination Defamation
- When a Painting Beats a Trademark: ETW Corp. v. Jireh Publishing and Tiger Woods's Image
- When a Robot Becomes You: White v. Samsung and the Reach of Identity
- When Highlight Films Trump Publicity Rights: Dryer v. NFL and Copyright Preemption
- 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
- Winter v. DC Comics: Transformative Use Shields the Autumn Brothers
- Young v. NeoCortext: When a Face-Swap App Meets California's Right of Publicity