For many product-focused companies, design often is the product.  Differentiation lives in surface ornamentation, overall ...

A design for a new product can revolutionize your industry, and the right logo design can help your business stand out in the crowd. Copyright law, however, only ...

Patrick Cariou’s lawsuit against artist Richard Prince for wrongfully appropriating his photographs of Rastafarians into new artworks provided a benchmark for the role of copyright in contemporary art ...

As of late, there has been a great deal of discussion about the Supreme Court’s Star Athletica decision regarding the scope of copyright protection for design features incorporated into useful ...

On December 4, 2017 Galatea Jewelry (“Galatea” or “Plaintiff”) filed a copyright infringement suit in the District Court for the Central District of California against the well-known crystal jewelry ...

An Italian Supreme Court decision concerning the layout of Kiko make-up stores is a welcome sign of the harmonising effect of the Court of Justice of the European Union’s Cofemel ruling, but could ...

“The Report concludes that AI can improve efficiency in detecting and enforcing copyright and design infringements, but that use of AI technologies for criminal purposes (including copyright and ...

In-house counsel are clearer on getting copyright protection for designs but are worried by inconsistencies in the law and a perception that copyright is a “weaker” IP right Businesses are considering ...

In the knowledge economy, business\'s intangible assets are worth more than premises, land or labour. In the last decade the value of the average business\'s intellectual property has increased from ...

Aficionados of glossy high-fashion magazines know that for every page of trend-setting design there is an affordable counterpart at the local department store. Expensive couture designs are routinely ...