The Truth About Digital Copyright Infringement’s Effect on the Film Industry

Those of us who remember the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) music piracy witch hunt of 2004-2007 and the colorful, if n... Read more »

Sergey Brin turns 40

Today is the birthday of Google co-founder Sergey Brin who turns 40 today. Russian born, his family immigrated to the United States when... Read more »

Promise of Utility in Canadian Patent Law

What is the Promise of Patent? On July 24, 2013, the Federal Court of Appeal issued its judgment in relation to Sanofi’s Canadian Patent... Read more »

Kirby Estate Denied Right to Terminate Copyright License for X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk and Ironman Comics

The US Court of Appeal for the 2nd Circuit ruled yesterday that the estate of famous comic book illustrator Jack Kirby could not terminat... Read more »

Additions to Google's Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge

Yesterday, on August 8th Google added another 79 patents to its Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge . The OPN Pledge benefits open-source sof... Read more »

Protecting Foreign Brands with Trademark Law in China

The increasingly serious pollution problem in China has directed the attention of Chinese government and Chinese consumers to electric car... Read more »

Milestone anniversary of US Patent No. 1000000

Although there over a million patents that relate to the term “Vehicle Tire”, The US patent assigned to Francis Holton on August 8th, 1911... Read more »

USTR disapproves of ITC decision on Apple import ban

On June 4 th , 2013, the International Trade Commission (ITC) issued a ruling prohibiting Apple Inc. (Apple) from importing its iPhone 3... Read more »

Pinch to Zoom - Apple versus Samsung

The patent war between Samsung and Apple has from time to time captured brief attention of the public. On July 28, 2013, Samsung’s couns... Read more »