Today we continue our focus on the upcoming World Intellectual Property Day on April 26 this year. Sponsored by the World Intellectual Property Organization or WIPO, this year’s theme is the empowerment of women to innovate and create. As we previously wrote, there is...
Month: April 2018
Gender parity in patents: Hedy Lamarr’s frequency hopping
Today we continue our look at the contributions of female inventors to our collective intellectual property in the spirit of this year’s World Intellectual Property Day theme honoring female innovation. As the day approaches on April 26, our focus here will...
World Intellectual Property Day is April 26, 2018
On April 26 each year, WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, celebrates World Intellectual Property Day. According to its webpage about the occasion, it offers a “unique opportunity each year to join with others around the globe to consider how IP...
Does Marvin Gaye family victory “blur the lines” of copyright?
On March 21, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld significant parts of a trial court opinion that awarded $5.3 million to Marvin Gaye's children. Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were found to have infringed on Gaye's 1977...
A rise in trademark litigation? It’s not a virtual reality.
Augmented and virtual reality are buzzwords in the industries of technology and innovation today. Led by products like the Sony PlayStation® VR and the Samsung Gear VR Headset, virtual reality could soon make its way beyond gaming and entertainment and into simulated...