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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue # 174

  Bri Van Til  |  February 05, 2020 2 min read

  Nintendo just renewed dozens of trademarks all at once, leaving fans speculating whether Nintendo is cooking up something new or has just been slacking on renewing its ma...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue # 173

  Bri Van Til  |  January 28, 2020 2 min read

  Trademark attorney Mitchell Stabbe offers some advice for how to refer to the final football tournament, AKA the “Superb Owl.”The 49ers' linebacker Kwo...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue # 172

  Bri Van Til  |  January 21, 2020 2 min read

  In case you're curious, a video recording of a Prince concert is not transformative enough to constitute fair use, even if the videographer chose the vantage po...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue # 171

  Bri Van Til  |  January 14, 2020 2 min read

  Med tech company Masimo says the Apple Watch infringes on 10 of its patents and that the company stole vital trade secrets when it hired former Masimo empl...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue # 170

  Bri Van Til  |  January 07, 2020 2 min read

  This author argues that the ruling in Brammer v. Violent Hues Productions, LLC (4th Cir. 2019) was the most important copyright development last year. What exci...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue # 169

  Bri Van Til  |  December 17, 2019 < 1 min read

  Cisco and IBM have been granted patents to use blockchain to secure 5G data and prevent drone-enabled package theft, respectively.Meanwhile, the Italian Copyright of...

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