2025

Here’s What Happened: Dewberry Engineers Inc. (“D. Engineers”) is a real estate development company. Dewberry Group Inc. (“D. Group”) is a competitor of D. Engineers. D. Group provides services for rental properties. The properties are owned by separate corporate affiliates of D. Group. D. Group operated at a loss for most years and was only […]

Here’s What Happened: Westlaw (owned by Thomson Reuters) gives attorneys handy headnotes and a key system for legal research. The headnotes summarize and organize a judge’s opinion so that an attorney can, at a glance, determine the relevance of a court’s opinion. Thomson Reuters owns the copyrights to the headnotes. Ross Intelligence Inc. used an […]

Here’s What Happened: “Dupes” are products that look and work like a popular item. In the cosmetic industry, dupes can give consumers on a budget access to products that they might not otherwise be able to afford.  Benefit Cosmetics LLC sells mascara using the trademark “Roller Lash” that includes an applicator known as a “Hook […]

On January 1 of each year, some copyrighted works fall into the public domain. That means, they are free for use, copying and as a basis for derivative works. Works created before 1929 are now in the public domain. Thousands of works spanning all copyright categories make up the Public Domain Class of 2025. Members […]