The U.S. Patent Office came under fire recently due to having its servers down between August 15th through August 23, 2018.

A discussion on IoT smart devices, their vulnerabilities and the options for making them safer as they grow in daily use by consumers.

Defense Distributed, a Texas non-profit organization, has caused a firestorm of debate with its recent supplying of online schematics for the production of printing of firearms via a 3-D printer.

In Apple v. ContentGuard Holdings the Federal Circuit held the claimed invention could be used in ways that did not require financial transactions and remanded the case to the PTAB to decide whether the patent qualifies for CBM review under the Unwired Planet standard which does not rely on the “incidental to” standard.

With the reemergence of Wonder Woman in popular media, Texas hamburger chain Whataburger has found itself embroiled in a potential trademark dispute with DC Comics over the ubiquitous “W” logo.

California made history recently by passing the California Consumer Privacy Act after unanimous agreement between the California State Assembly and State Senate.

Are virtual assistants recording your conversations? Amazon confirmed several times that the devices store everything they hear on Amazon servers and that Amazon users must delete the recordings themselves. 

Levi Strauss & Co. has come under recent fire for sending out thousands of cease-and-desist letters and for filing several lawsuits claiming trademark infringement and trademark dilution by any apparel companies that sell clothing with flag-like tabs sewn into the pocket of their garments.

A U.S. district judge has given the go-ahead for a federal lawsuit between Prestige Entertainment and Ticketmaster, alleging illegal bot use, copyright infringement and other violations of intellectual property law, to continue in federal court.

Hasbro made news by filing a trademark application to protect the scent of Play-Doh as a sensory mark. Although Play-Doh has been around for over two decades, Hasbro only recently decided to file for federal protection of the product.

23andMe files various claims of intellectual property infringement against Ancestry.com.

The European General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR goes into effect May 25, 2018. Are you ready for compliance under the GDPR and do you know how it can affect you as a US company?

JPMorgan Chase filed a patent application that seeks to cover a system that would be used to protect distributed ledgers and blockchain-technology based systems that facilitate their virtual financial transactions.

While Facebook’s terms of service and data policy does say that the company reserves the right to collect information on its users as well as the devices they use to access Facebook’s services, few users may understand the depth of information that they are agreeing to allow Facebook to collect. 

Jack Daniel’s sues two Texas whiskey distributors for trade dress infringement, false advertising, and trademark infringement.