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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue #206

  Bri Van Til  |  September 16, 2020 2 min read

  Come join Alt Legal and Panda Restaurant Group's GC and IP Counsel next week for a webinar to learn about trademark protection in the restaurant industry. The Washington ...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue # 200!

  Bri Van Til  |  August 07, 2020 2 min read

  This is a collection of some of the weirdest car patents granted, including a detachable unicycle and a rolling meeting room. It's unclear if the rolling meeting room inc...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue # 187

  Bri Van Til  |  May 05, 2020 2 min read

  Freeplay Music, which offers its songs for free for non-commercial use, is suing Ford for using the jams in their ads.A Canadian tech firm is accusing music-streamin...

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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 # 165

  Bri Van Til  |  November 19, 2019 2 min read

  When Penn Law changed its Twitter handle to @careylawupenn, a Penn Law student used @PennLaw to create a parody account, but the University has reclaimed the handle....

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue # 162

  Bri Van Til  |  October 29, 2019 < 1 min read

  While many car manufacturers have moved to electric engines or hybrids, Ferrari has patented a more efficient V12 engine....

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