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Podcast: Crypto's Rocky IP Future Image

Podcast: Crypto's Rocky IP Future

IPS Staff

Listen in on a post-webinar chat on "The Crypto Landscape: Post-FTX," with Blockchain Legal LLP partner Aaron Krowne and counsel Ali Derie, along with veteran entertainment industry lawyer Eric S. Goldman, about cryptocurrency's rocky recent past (and present) as well as its still-promising, if uncertain, future.

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Impersonation on Social Media: The Increasing Challenges of Verification

Christine Au-Yeung & Chidera Dawodu

The recent flurry of online impersonators, ranging from accounts posing as President Joe Biden to the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, exposes the challenges of social media platforms' verification and authentication processes.

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The Difference Between 'Covenant' and 'Condition Precedent' In Song Licensing Agreements Image

The Difference Between 'Covenant' and 'Condition Precedent' In Song Licensing Agreements

Stan Soocher

A question of law arose for a District Judge when a songwriter sued YouTube, claiming she never approved licensing her works to YouTube — whether the administration agreement's notice-and-consent clause was a condition precedent to the administrator's ability to license the songwriter's songs.

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Fair Use of Embedded Content on Social Media

Stephen M. Kramarsky & John Millson

The change in character of social media, from purely social communication to a mixture of the social and commercial, has had knock-on effects for courts applying traditional legal principles, notably, the application of copyright law.

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How the Changing Concept of 'Work' May Jeopardize Employers' IP Ownership Image

How the Changing Concept of 'Work' May Jeopardize Employers' IP Ownership

Sarah Schaedler & Jennifer T. Criss

A key step to ensure that employers own their intellectual property is having employees sign agreements which assign to the employer all intellectual property created in the course of employment.

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IP News

Howard Shire & Stephanie Remy

Patent Infringement and Trade Dress In the Ninth Circuit

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Live Webinar: The Crypto Landscape Post-FTX Image

Live Webinar: The Crypto Landscape Post-FTX

IPS Staff

"The Crypto Landscape Post-FTX," Feb. 15 at 4 p.m. ET, NY Cyber CLE credits available.

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Is Trademark Protection Going to the Dogs? Image

Is Trademark Protection Going to the Dogs?

Jonathan Moskin

The Ninth Circuit held in VIP Prods. LLC v. Jack Daniel's Properties that VIP's "Bad Spaniels" dog toy mimicking the appearance of a Jack Daniels whisky bottle was protected expression under the First Amendment. The Supreme Court granted cert in November 2022 to consider the principal question whether humorous use of another's mark on a commercial product should be assessed under Rogers or the traditional multipart test of likelihood of confusion.

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Are You Ready for Europe's New Patent System?

Marianne Schaffner & Thierry Lautier

In Europe, the patent system is changing and will offer to companies a new patent protection and a new patent court. It should start in April 2023, with a sunrise period starting in January 2023.

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A Secondment Can Help Grow Your IP Practice Image

A Secondment Can Help Grow Your IP Practice

By Dan Ovanezian, Blake L. Holt, Azie Aziz & John Whetzel

Although your company may have an in-house IP attorney, your company may still need temporary help from an outside law firm to develop your company's patent portfolio and to solve your company's need for temporary help with minimal need for training and financial investment. If you do not have the budget to hire an in-house IP attorney, the solution is to try a secondment — an attorney from an outside law firm temporarily joins your in-house legal team as a "secondee" on a part-time or full-time basis.

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