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Enforcing Your Company’s Trademark Rights: Cease and Desist Letters

Jan 30, 2025 by Lonnie Finkel

This blog is the fifth in a series that Finkel Law Group is publishing to provide our readers with a broad overview of trademark law in the United States.  In the United States, to maintain your legal rights in your trademarks you must be diligent in protecting your marks by taking appropriate enforcement action against […]

Intellectual Property, Trademark Issues

Trade Secret Litigation: What Your Business Needs to Know to Protect its Valuable Trade Secrets

Dec 9, 2024 by Lonnie Finkel

In the digital age in which we live and work and conduct business, the protection of trade secrets has become a pressing concern for companies operating across all sectors of the global economy and in jurisdictions around the world. Whether it’s proprietary algorithms, client lists, product formulas or specialized manufacturing processes, trade secrets are often […]

Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets

Copyright Ownership of Generative AI Work Product In Major International Jurisdictions

Oct 21, 2024 by Lonnie Finkel

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools can produce a vast range of new content in a remarkably short period of time.  The output may include software code, text, audio, images and video.  For business owners like you the speed with which AI produces rems of work product in response to a user prompt is simply breathtaking, […]

Copyright, Intellectual Property

U.S. District Court Confirms ‘Human Authorship’ Required for Copyright Protection and Sets Copyright Boundary for AI-Generated Works

Sep 30, 2024 by Lonnie Finkel

On August 18, 2023, Judge Beryl A. Howell of the US District Court for the District of Columbia issued a first-of-its-kind federal court decision in Thaler v. Perlmutter et al., agreeing with the U.S. Copyright Office that works generated entirely by artificial intelligence are not copyrightable for lack of human authorship.  The court rejected the plaintiff’s argument […]

Copyright, Intellectual Property

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How to License Your Company’s Copyrights to Maximize Their Financial Value

Aug 20, 2024 by Lonnie Finkel

When your company owns valuable copyrights, licensing them to customers over and over again is a powerful way to generate revenue, expand your business into new markets, and solidify your company’s presence in those markets.  To truly maximize the financial value of your copyrighted works, however, it’s crucial to approach copyright licensing with a strategic […]

Copyright, Intellectual Property

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Intellectual Property Posts

  • Using Trademarks as Collateral for Financing
  • Effectively Buying, Selling and Assigning Trademarks
  • U.S. District Court for Northern District of California Enters Partial Summary Judgment Finding Using Copyrighted Material to Train AI Platforms is a Fair Use
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Upholds Major Trade Secrets and Contract Damages Award in Lawsuit Stemming from Failed Merger Talks
  • Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal’s Decision Finds that Likelihood of Confusion in a Trademark Case Depends on Much More than Geography

Recent Posts

  • Using Trademarks as Collateral for Financing
  • Effectively Buying, Selling and Assigning Trademarks
  • U.S. District Court for Northern District of California Enters Partial Summary Judgment Finding Using Copyrighted Material to Train AI Platforms is a Fair Use
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Upholds Major Trade Secrets and Contract Damages Award in Lawsuit Stemming from Failed Merger Talks
  • Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal’s Decision Finds that Likelihood of Confusion in a Trademark Case Depends on Much More than Geography
  • Best Practices for Your Company to Protect and Preserve its Trademark’s Strength Through Proper Use
  • Ninth Circuit’s Decision in Briskin v. Shopify, Inc. Significantly Expands Federal Court’s Personal Jurisdiction Over E-Commerce Companies
  • Finkel Law Group P.C. Joins More Than 800 Law Firms Signing the Amicus Curiae Brief Filed on Behalf of Jenner & Block

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