Our good friend Steve Schlackman has a great post over at Art Law Journal on trademarks. As Steve notes, many companies don’t register their trademarks during the start-up phase, usually waiting until a later time when sufficient cash is available, if registered at all.

Sadly, it's a recurring nightmare for architects, designers, developers, builders and others working in or servicing the construction industry.  You work hard and prepare a great set of plans and then, surprise, you are told that the project is canceled. 

If a U.S. website is using your images without your permission, the easiest and fastest way to stop infringement is to send the website a “DMCA Takedown Notice” to remove your work from the site.

Taking a patent infringement case on contingency requires skills and experience in many areas, but two are key: determining infringement and analyzing damages.  The investment of time, energy and resources in a contingency case can be substantial.  

On Tuesday, October 21, 2014, our firm dismissed the case against Getty Images.  The dismissal was in response to a "Covenant Not to Sue" that Getty Images provided to our firm that says that, contrary to their first letter, they will not sue us for copyright infringement.  

On August 20, 2014, our firm filed a lawsuit on our own behalf against Getty Images, Inc.  Why did we do it?  Here is why. On July 1, 2014, our firm received an unsigned letter from Getty Images Inc.

The Supreme Court's decision invalidating a software patent for a process that lessens settlement risk for trades of financial instruments in Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v.

KidSafe® Foundation is a nonprofit founded in 2009 by Sally Berenzweig MEd, MA and Cherie Benjoseph LCSW – child safety experts, mental health professionals, educators, authors, public speakers, and moms on a mission to keep all children safe from child abuse, bullying and internet dangers.

Yesterday the Federal Circuit ruled in Oracle's favor that Google committed copyright infringement when it copied Java into the Android operating system.  To read the decision, click here.

Schneider Rothman partner and patent guru Jerold I. Schneider was recently featured on Gene Quinn's well read blog IPWatchdog.com discussing design patent infringement.  In his article, Jerry discusses why design patents have the potential to create value for patentees since the Federal Circuit simplified the standard for proving infringement on the ornamental features of a product in the Egyptian Goddess case.

This past week I spoke to an undergraduate level class at FIU entitled "How we know what we know" on the issue of copyright.  The class is taught by Prof.

Design patents are misunderstood and under-utilized.  But that is changing.  The last few years have seen a significant shift, favoring the design patent owner, on evaluating design patent infringement. 

Misinformation abounds on the internet.  There is nothing new about that.  But it is especially true when it comes to copyright law. The real estate industry has gone to great lengths to educate its members on copyright to help them avoid infringement.  

Schneider Rothman Intellectual Property Law Group has obtained a settlement for a client who claimed patent infringement against one of the nation’s largest media companies and against publishers of electronic games.

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Examination of Patent Applications at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO or PTO) takes too long.  That's the message from the USPTO’s own Performance and Accountability Report for Fiscal Year 2013.

The November-December 2013 issue of Art World News reports that Schneider Rothman Intellectual Property Group has sued three major companies on behalf of the representative of work by painter Alexei Butirskly.

Copyright infringement claims are challenging for an attorney to accept on contingency.  Proving damages for copyright infringement can be a daunting task.  That is one reason why the Copyright Act makes statutory damages available as an alternative to actual damages.

Unmanned drone technology has decreased in price recently and become more user friendly leading many with no flying experience to take to the skies for fun, and even for profit.  

In his Wall Street Journal column "The Information Age," L. Gordon Crovitz argues that today's patent litigation woes can be traced to President Jimmy Carter's push to create the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.