by Madan Law | Mar 22, 2024 | Branding, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Madan Law, Patent, Trademarks, USPTO
Running a business can be hard, especially when you don’t know what parts of your business can be protected or how to protect them. The good news is, you probably already know your core product/service offering and probably also have picked out your company name, your...
by Madan Law | Aug 18, 2022 | Copyright, Intellectual Property, Madan Law
The U.S. Supreme Court is soon to rule on a case involving copyright issues that will have a big impact on artists who appropriate or remix existing images: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc v. Goldsmith, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 21-869. The U.S. Supreme...
by Madan Law | Jun 20, 2022 | Copyright, Intellectual Property, Madan Law, Uncategorized
Paramount Pictures is being sued by the heirs of Ehud Yonay (the author of the article that inspired the movie “Top Gun”) for copyright infringement related to the film’s sequel, “Top Gun: Maverick,” grossing $584.6 million globally. The Yonay’s allege they properly...
by Madan Law | Mar 16, 2022 | Branding, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Madan Law, Patent, Trademarks, USPTO
You have probably heard the term “metaverse” many times but the question is, what does “metaverse” actually mean? Put broadly, metaverse is the concept of creating a digital life in a digital world. The idea may seem bizarre at first read… but many of us already have...
by Madan Law | Oct 19, 2021 | Branding, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Madan Law, Trademarks
Do you remember the “Yahoo Yodel” from the late 1990s? Here’s a reminder, it goes like Ya-hooooooooooo-Oooooooo! Enter Mr. Wylie Gustafson, a descendant of a long line of yodeling yeoman. In 1986, Gustafson headed out to Los Angeles to make his mark on the music...
by Madan Law | Oct 15, 2021 | Branding, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Madan Law, Patent, Trademarks
On October 4, 2021, the family of Henrietta Lacks filed an intellectual property lawsuit against the biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific, on the 70th anniversary of her death. Since the family discovered the unauthorized use of Lacks’ cells in 1975, neither...