This summer, following threats of litigation by Hasbro, owner of the Scrabble board game’s copyright, the popular Facebook application Scrabulous was shut down, reworked, and
Can workplace information retained in a person’s memory constitute a trade secret? Until recently the answer was no, with courts applying trade secret protection to
Update July 7, 2009: Jonathan Giraldi’s post “CIRA’s WHOIS Policy Strikes a Balance” won the Gowlings LLP Best Blog in IP Law and Technology Prize
When American Airlines filed a lawsuit last year against Google claiming trademark infringement, many people hoped that this case would clarify the otherwise confusing jurisprudence
The ideas that an inventor’s time and investments should be protected and new inventions encouraged through the granting of patents, underlie some of the justifications of
In fashion, the thin line between inspiration and “piracy” becomes increasingly blurred as fashion executives, designers, editors, and lawyers struggle to define what constitutes unethical
