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Authors: Alex Anfuso & Eleanor M. Lackman In Carroll Shelby Licensing v. Halicki, No. 23-4008 (May 27, 2025), the Ninth Circuit recently weighed in again on the scope of copyright protection for characters, denying ...

Author: James D. Berkley Amidst a level of intrigue rare to the Library of Congress and U.S. Copyright Office, on Friday, May 9, the Copyright Office released a detailed 108-page report containing its most extended disc ...

Author: Franklin F. Franco On February 26, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Dewberry Group Inc. v. Dewberry Engineers Inc. that reaffirms a key limitation in trademark remedies: courts cannot ...

The new year is bringing with it some major fee increases from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) for certain key aspects for trademark filings and other trademark prosecution. Nearly all go into effect on Ja ...

Authors: Karin Pagnanelli & Stacey Chuvaieva Earlier this week, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a District Court’s decision in Heckman v. Live Nation Entertainment Inc., finding that the delegation clause of Ticketmast ...

Lerner & Row PC v. Brown Engstrand & Shely LLC (9th Cir. 2024)Skyler M. Terrebonne On October 22, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court delivered the latest word on whether the practice of ...