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David Baker
Dec 24, 20211 min read
Creation of a Classic ….. Board Game
Today in 1935, the game Monopoly was patented by Charles Darrow, an unemployed engineer in Germantown, Pennsylvania. There was a game at...
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David Baker
Dec 15, 20211 min read
IP Law Minute - Los Angeles Comic Con 2021
Where creatives, producers, distributors, and fans come together in southern California. Not nearly as well-known as its cousin to the...
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David Baker
Nov 20, 20211 min read
Longhorns v. Sooners - Trademarks on Display at Annual Red River Showdown in Dallas
IP Law Minute - Red River Showdown The Red River Showdown is one of the oldest rivalries in college football. But did you know that the...
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David Baker
Apr 24, 20212 min read
Google v. Oracle Ends with Bizarre SCOTUS Decision
On April 5, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a long-awaited decision in the contentious copyright battle between tech giants...
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David Baker
Apr 20, 20213 min read
"Old Hangtown" Discards Noose from City Logo
As reported earlier this week in The Los Angeles Times e-newsletter, the City of Placerville, located in the Gold Mining region of...
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David Baker
Apr 19, 20211 min read
Martian Intellectual Property
Ingenuity flew today on Mars! Now that there’s been the first powered flight on another planet can pizza delivery in under an hour be far...
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David Baker
Apr 15, 20211 min read
TODAY IN IP HISTORY - April 15, 1452
TODAY IN IP HISTORY. On April 15, 1452, Leonardo da Vinci, the ultimate Renaissance man, was born Lionardo di ser Piero da Vinci, in...
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David Baker
Mar 31, 20212 min read
Art World Embraces Non-Fungible Tokens
Just when you thought it was impossible for the art world to get any weirder, this happens: A non-fungible token (or “NFT”) of a digital...
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David Baker
Mar 27, 20211 min read
Peloton unhappy about SPINNING trademark
Exercise bike manufacturer, Peloton, has filed petitions with the USPTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board to cancel Mad Dogg Athletics’...
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David Baker
Mar 22, 20211 min read
Banksy On Fire ... Just Not Literally
Luckily, there are always new developments in the IP world to keep us distracted. Whether it was street artist Banksy’s recent social...
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David Baker
Mar 18, 20212 min read
IP Update March 2021 Edition - Banksy, Beeple, NFTs, WonderCon, Spinning, and even Mr. Potato Head
“The artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before, and he dos it without destroying something else.” - John Updike In...
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David Baker
Mar 16, 20211 min read
WonderCon Goes Virtual … Again
For only the second time ever (2020 was the first), organizers of the Anaheim, California popular media convention WonderCon have...
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David Baker
Mar 4, 20211 min read
“Ruh-roh, Reorge!”
It has been nearly 60 years since The Jetsons cartoon arrived on American televisions, but a recent USPTO trademark application filed by...
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David Baker
Mar 2, 20211 min read
Ninth Circuit Favors Seuss Over Star Trek
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that a publishing company, ComicMix, LLC, was in the wrong when it published a...
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David Baker
Feb 25, 20211 min read
IP Update - February 2021 Edition
“But he who dares not grasp the thorn. Should never crave the rose.” ― Anne Bronte Did you watch the Big Game? Kinda boring, wasn’t it?...
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David Baker
Feb 16, 20211 min read
Aunt Jemima Finally Retires
Quaker Oats is releasing a new name and logo for its "Aunt Jemima" products, finally retiring the racist stereotype that has adorned its...
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David Baker
Feb 11, 20211 min read
Amusement Park Sues Singer
Evermore Park, a small amusement park in Utah, has filed suit against Taylor Swift and her management company alleging that the naming of...
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David Baker
Feb 11, 20211 min read
Did you miss an issue of IP Update? You're in luck. Here's a copy of the January 2021 edition.
So, the first week of January really happened, didn’t it? And, if you were paying attention to the unrelenting media coverage from our...
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David Baker
Feb 3, 20212 min read
The “Grand Daddy of Them All” Trademark Lawsuit
Capping the weird 2020-2021 NCAA football season, the Alabama Crimson Tide beat the Ohio State Buckeyes 52-24 in the College Football...
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David Baker
Jan 28, 20212 min read
IP Update - January 2021 Edition
"In the long-run, every government is the exact symbol of its people, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like...
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