As is so often the case, California is again leading the nation in the definition and enforcement of online privacy rules. The latest announcement from California Attorney General Kamala Harris, while not legally effective in other states, should serve as a beginning point for you to begin thinking about how your company will handle these […]
The European Union’s high court has ruled that Google must respond to requests by individuals and companies to take down from search results any information that the petitioner views as outdated, inaccurate or irrelevant. In its zeal to create a “right to be forgotten,” the Court has told Google that it is responsible for hiding […]
In what may well be the first action of its kind, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) unveiled earlier this month a visual search interface for its Global Brand Database. The new interface is designed to make it possible for users to look for trademarks by their visual appearance. The new UI can be approached […]
The Federal Circuit Court once again revealed its lack of understanding about the intersection of copyright and tech by overturning a lower court verdict and declaring that programming language application program interfaces (APIs) are subject to copyright. These APIs are intentionally short pieces of text such as “java.lang.ref” and “js.object.name” whose only purpose is to […]
In an appeal from a bankruptcy ruling (Taylor v. Taylor Made Plastics Inc., 2014-1212, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington), the appellate court ruled that the omission of an ex-wife who had a 60% interest in the patent in question voided the attempt by the original patent owner to sue for infringement. […]