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Your source for news, updates and guidance on all things trademarks and intellectual property.
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Alt Legal IP News – Issue #232
How might a change in USPTO leadership affect drug prices? In response to allegations of mass fraud on the trademark register, the USPTO may start verifying identificatio...
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Alt Legal IP News – Issue #231
When is it best to settle patent litigation to avoid the "patent litigation money pit"? If you file lawsuits, make sure your actions aren't "vexatious and wanton," or you...
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Alt Legal IP News – Issue #230
When authorship is shared (as it often is in open-source and copyleft projects), what IP can you protect? Join us for our webinar this Thursday, where Hopkins & Carle...
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How to Respond to Section 2(e)(4) Surname Refusals: A Video Q&A with IP Attorney John Miranda
Surname refusals are on the rise with the USPTO. As a result of trademark clutter and depletion, trademark applicants are simply running out of eligible trademarks to cho...
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To the Left, to the Left: An Introduction to Copyleft and Open Source Software
Copyleft may sound like a dad joke, but it is more than just clever wordplay. Rather, it is a bold challenge to copyright law’s utilitarian theory that creation only ha...
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Alt Legal IP News – Issue #229
The Federal Circuit ruled that a patent for software plus hardware was not infringed by technology that's just software. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...
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