Today in 1935, the game Monopoly was patented by Charles Darrow, an unemployed engineer in Germantown, Pennsylvania. There was a game at...

Where creatives, producers, distributors, and fans come together in southern California. Not nearly as well-known as its cousin to the...

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...

On April 5, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a long-awaited decision in the contentious copyright battle between tech giants...

As reported earlier this week in The Los Angeles Times e-newsletter, the City of Placerville, located in the Gold Mining region of...

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...

TODAY IN IP HISTORY. On April 15, 1452, Leonardo da Vinci, the ultimate Renaissance man, was born Lionardo di ser Piero da Vinci, in...

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...

Exercise bike manufacturer, Peloton, has filed petitions with the USPTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board to cancel Mad Dogg Athletics’...

Luckily, there are always new developments in the IP world to keep us distracted. Whether it was street artist Banksy’s recent social...

“The artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before, and he dos it without destroying something else.” - John Updike In...

For only the second time ever (2020 was the first), organizers of the Anaheim, California popular media convention WonderCon have...

It has been nearly 60 years since The Jetsons cartoon arrived on American televisions, but a recent USPTO trademark application filed by...

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...

“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?...

Quaker Oats is releasing a new name and logo for its "Aunt Jemima" products, finally retiring the racist stereotype that has adorned its...

Evermore Park, a small amusement park in Utah, has filed suit against Taylor Swift and her management company alleging that the naming of...

So, the first week of January really happened, didn’t it? And, if you were paying attention to the unrelenting media coverage from our...

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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