Copyright protects original works including "literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works," according to the U.S. Copyright Office ...

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 ...

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 ...

The intersection between copyright in a pattern and design rights on the same has come for determination before the courts on many occasions. A recent Delhi High Court judgment has clarified the ...

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 ...

Recently, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ("Sixth Circuit") in Varsity Brands, Inc. v. Star Athletica, LLC, decided that clothing designs (in this case, a ...

At least one justice can't conceive of stripes, chevrons and color blocks as being anything but useful. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Nandi Seeds, on the other hand, questioned the standing of Anant Oil Industries to challenge the validity of the copyright. It asserted that it had legally obtained ownership of the copyright ...