Copyright owners hope new report will bring ‘tech to the table’ Tumblr, Authors Guild and Recording Industry Association counsel have mixed reactions to the US Copyright Office’s view that the DMCA is unbalanced By Rani Mehta May 29 2020
Sports team brands say COVID is cause to re-think legal spend Counsel at the Oilers and Boston's Red Sox and Celtics explain how – and if at all – they monitor COVID issues, while some are cautious about budgets By Rani Mehta May 28 2020
PTAB polarises in-house survey respondents There’s no clear consensus on the PTAB, but three quarters of respondents say USPTO director Iancu is doing a good job, in the finale of our in-house survey By Rani Mehta May 22 2020
Three quarters in-house counsel want remote hearings in future Virtual hearings after COVID are desired and Delaware is the preferred litigation forum among 54 US-based respondents to a Managing IP survey By Rani Mehta May 20 2020
Survey: In-house counsel on the US patent landscape Fifty four in-house counsel took our survey on how the US patent pendulum has moved and how the courts and the USPTO have changed By Rani Mehta May 18 2020
Online platforms want IP owners to talk and beware of bots Counsel at Amazon, Tumblr, Redbubble and elsewhere set out how they balance user freedom with protecting third-party intellectual property By Rani Mehta May 15 2020
In-house survey: Trump takes early edge over Biden on IP The US is not too patent friendly, and Section 101 and low-quality patents are the most important issues, according to 54 respondents to a Managing IP poll By Rani Mehta May 14 2020
Booking.com will make brands ‘think twice’ on generic names Lawyers point out that whichever way SCOTUS rules in USPTO v Booking.com, the decision will affect calculations for choosing marks in the future By Rani Mehta May 08 2020
Facebook IP head revisiting priorities amid lockdown In an interview, Allen Lo sets out how COVID-19 has made speed a priority, how Facebook considers diversity in outside counsel and why more patents aren’t always better By Rani Mehta May 06 2020
Government leaders on going private: ‘recognition gets clients’ Ex-senior US officials, including David Kappos and Bruce Hoffman, reveal their experiences of going back to private practice and the impact their status has By Rani Mehta May 01 2020
