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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue #62

  Hannah Samendinger  |  November 08, 2017 2 min read

  CBS has sued a photographer for copyright infringement for publishing stills from a TV show.  ...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue #51

  Hannah Samendinger  |  August 22, 2017 2 min read

  Costco's decision to make and sell "Tiffany" rings made them $3.7 million. They now must pay $19 million to Tiffany & Co. ...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue #50

  Hannah Samendinger  |  August 16, 2017 < 1 min read

  Planet Money asks a question we've all had: Can you patent a steak? ...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue #49

  Hannah Samendinger  |  August 08, 2017 < 1 min read

  A federal appeals court upheld the invalidation of the "podcasting patent" with a little help from the EFF. ...

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• Alt Legal IP News – Issue #47

  Hannah Samendinger  |  July 25, 2017 < 1 min read

  Are tattoos copies? And if so, should a copy on a human body be excluded from protection under the Copyright Act?...

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• Tips for Starting an IP Practice

  Alt Legal Team  |  September 21, 2015 3 min read

  Just last year alone, the USPTO issued over 300,000 patents to business and inventors and received over 1 million applications for trademarks and patents. Even pop s...

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