by Madan Law | Jul 18, 2018 | Branding, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Madan Law, Patent, Trademarks
Photo Credit: resources.12stone.com Nowadays it seems like a new blockbuster is releasing every weekend. But did you know the amount of IP that plays a role in bringing your favorite movies to the silver screen? To start with, a copyright covers music, sounds, books,...
by Madan Law | Jun 28, 2018 | Patent
Photo Credit: Facebook.com Facebook knows a lot about you. Maybe even too much! Using a learning model and historical data gathered from other users, Facebook’s “Predicting Life Changes” patent boasts being able to predict major events in a Facebook user’s life. This...
by Madan Law | May 29, 2018 | Intellectual Property, Patent
Photo Credit: https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/05/16/apple-seeks-1-billion-samsung-retrial-patent-violations/ Surely you’ve heard of the two “small” companies Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics (“Samsung”)? The retrial of the ongoing case between the two...
by Madan Law | Aug 10, 2017 | Branding, Intellectual Property, Patent, Trademarks
Amazon hopes to trademark the glowing blue ring of its Echo device. The blue ring is recognized as the face of Alexa, the intelligent personal assistant and voice of the Echo, and lights up when she’s listening, thinking, and speaking. Amazon filed the trademark...
by Madan Law | Jul 12, 2017 | Intellectual Property, Patent
Teenagers with a patent pending?! Susana Cappello, Carolina Baigorri, and Victoria Roca are high school students from Miami, Florida. When Susana heard students at her sister’s college were being drugged, she and two friends wanted to create something to alert girls...
by Madan Law | Jun 2, 2017 | Branding, Intellectual Property, Patent
Patented strawberries?! A plant researcher and respected breeder, Douglas Shaw, from California sued his old employer, University of California, Davis, for destroying hundreds of plants and locking some of them in a freezer. He claimed this wiped out years of his...
