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Mastering Intellectual Property Law for Startups: Insights for Legal Practitioners

CaseFox

Understanding Intellectual Property in the Startup Context The four main types of IP relevant to startups are patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Each protects different aspects of intellectual work and inventions. Let’s examine how applying IP law insights can help safeguard your startup’s competitive edge.

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Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

W]e take a restrictive view of what extra elements transform an otherwise equivalent claim into one that is qualitatively different from a copyright infringement claim.” E]lements such as awareness or intent” do not save a claim from preemption because they “alter the action’s scope but not its nature.” Briarpatch, 373 F.3d

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Does IP Law Protect Influencers’ Aesthetics?–Gifford v. Sheil (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Intellectual property law has not traditionally protected the way someone styles their hair, makes up their face, or decorates their home, whether or not those choices are photographed and shared. Sheil (Guest Blog Post) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Sydney Nicole LLC v. –Gifford v.

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Berkeley Technology Law Journal Podcast: Regulating IP in the Metaverse with Professor Molly Van Houweling

Berkley Technology Law Journal

Her recent scholarly work includes “The New Private Law and Intellectual Property,” forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law (2020); and “Intellectual Property as Property,” in the Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law (2019).

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From Pain to Creativity: How AI Helped Kristina Kashtanova Illustrate Her “Zarya of the Dawn” Story – featuring Richmond Law’s Ashley Dobbs and Roger Skalbeck (TGIR Ep. 196)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

She talks about how she discovered the power of AI-generated images through OpenAI DALL-E and how it helped her overcome her pain and isolation. Ashley and her team also handle various transactional matters related to intellectual property, such as forming entities, reviewing contracts, and assigning rights. At the time.

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Trademark Extraterritoriality: Abitron v. Hetronic Doesn’t Go the Distance (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Abitron garnered far less attention than did other intellectual property (IP) cases argued this term, including Jack Daniels Products, Inc. Despite a partially harmonized international intellectual property system, IP laws are fundamentally territorial. VIP Products LLC (covered in this excellent post by Lisa Ramsey ).

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U.S. Supreme Court Vindicates Photographer But Destabilizes Fair Use — Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

The Road Not Taken At this point, no lawsuit had been filed; and the dispute probably could have been, and certainly should have been, easily resolved. In April 2017, it filed a lawsuit against Goldsmith and her agency (now known as Lynn Goldsmith, Ltd., She contacted AWF and advised it that the illustration infringed her copyright.

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