by Allison Lasher | Nov 20, 2017 | Commentary |
Aspirin. Escalator. Trampoline. Three generic words with seemingly nothing in common. Those words, along with many others, were once legally protected trademarks. When a company’s mark becomes the generic name for its product or service, it can lose its trademark...
by Adam Laird | Nov 18, 2017 | Commentary |
One of the most important privacy cases this decade is currently in front of the Supreme Court: Carpenter v. United States. This decision will define how law enforcement interprets the Fourth Amendment regarding an individual’s cellphone. The decision hinges on...
by Yingchun Ni | Nov 15, 2017 | Commentary |
On February 15, 2017, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a ruling on a patent dispute about a genome-editing technique called CRISPR-Cas9. The Regents of the University of California, University of...
by Sophie Baum | Nov 13, 2017 | Commentary |
Last month when Amazon announced its newest offering, Amazon Key, people were skeptical. Responses ranged from confused, to excited, to, naturally, cautious. But now that it has officially arrived people are…still skeptical. And not without good reason. Here’s how...
by David Feigenbaum | Nov 8, 2017 | Commentary |
What are Trademarks and Why Do We Have Them? Trademarks designate the source of goods in commerce and servicemarks designate the source of services in commerce. An example of a trademark is the polo player on polo shirts. An example of a service mark is the...
by Christine Umbright | Oct 30, 2017 | Commentary |
Google-owned artificial intelligence company DeepMind recently succeeded at designing a program capable of defeating some of the world’s best players of Chinese strategy game Go. While this may not appear groundbreaking, the real triumph comes from the fact that...
