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Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner
As another follow-up to last week's posts about the Toronto International Film Festival hiding behind bogus assertions of concern about copyright infringement as an excuse not to screen "The Road…
Fellow patent practitioner Lee Golden did what I did not do, namely read the Canadian Copyright statute. He notes that the terrorists with the GoPro cameras likely don't even have…
I don’t think that hitherto I’ve seen IP used as an excuse for Jew-hatred, but we’re living in interesting times. The Jerusalem Post and others report today that the Toronto…
We refer to patents, trademarks and copyrights as "intellectual property" in part because they have attributes of what we normally think of as tangible property. Just as ownership of…
After years of lacking an official internet presence, Gary Larson recently relented and starting posting his old Far Side cartoons on a daily basis. Several of these have an IP…
Gru: "We stole the Statue of Liberty! … The small one from Las Vegas." USPS: uses an artist's version of the Statue of Liberty – the small one from Las…
Last year we wrote about the Clinton campaign's spectacularly unsuccessful attempt to abuse trademark law in order to silence a critic who sold t-shirts and mugs mocking that campaign's candidate. Now…
Now that we're into the post-ballot-casting, horse-trading-wheeling-dealing part of the Israeli election process, I went back and checked on the Likud video that I wrote about here. It's no longer…
(March 19: see update here.) Israel has national elections next month, in which, yet again, Israelis will get to go to the polls to vote for a party that won’t…
Last year I helped organize a panel for the AIPLA national meeting on the intersection between IP rights and free speech. One of the speakers was Paul Levy of Public…
I’m Dan Feigelson. I’ve been practicing patent law for over 30 years. I’m also opinionated, as you may discover in reading my writings here.
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