In Brief:   A picture is worth a thousand words but using it may not pass the fair use test.

In Brief:  Holding a lot of patents that extend the life of an original patent isn’t’ a monopoly.

In Brief: Copyright in fireworks text messages is invalid.

In Brief:  Misappropriation of a trade secret requires more than just being in the supply chain.

In Brief:   A famous trademark doesn’t have to tolerate a trademark parody.

In Brief:  Competing eyelash booster trademarks don’t create a likelihood of confusion.

Fiduciaries who handle investments for self-directed 401(k) plans are increasingly exposed to liability for their investment decisions. Those fiduciaries, including employers and individuals charged with investment selection, are being second guessed in court actions for the investment funds they select.

Although the courts are divided, there are some guidelines that plan fiduciaries need to consider when reviewing their plan's mix of mutual funds offered for participant investment.

In Brief:   Web scraping publically available information isn’t computer fraud.

In Brief:  A court’s fix of an obvious error in patent claim language can’t be used as a defense to willful patent infringement.

In Brief: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s safe harbor protects Pinterest from copyright infringement for photographs appearing next to ads.

In Brief:  “The” can be a trademark.

In Brief:  The first sale of a patent is determined by contract law.

In Brief:   A work that is created for commercial purposes is not protected by the Visual Artists’ Rights Act.

In Brief:  David’s beer brand wins over Goliath’s beer brand.

In Brief:   The type of trade secret drives reasonable measures of secrecy.

In Brief:  Oral agreements with independent contractors fuel copyright infringement litigation.

In Brief:  Adopting a portion of someone else’s trademark can lead to a likelihood of confusion.

In Brief: Too many words in a contract term plus course of dealing can cause a bad breakup.

In Brief:   Hoping your team makes it to World Series isn’t enough for trademark use.

In Brief: Obtaining a trade secret by mistake isn’t always misappropriation.

In Brief:   An application for a certification mark was dealt a fatal blow by genericide.

In Brief:  Messing up on a copyright application can be excused.

In Brief:  An agreement stipulating the rights in a patent is not a present assignment of a patent.

In Brief: A generic top level domain name needs something more to be a trademark.

In Brief:   It takes some work to prove up a missing copyright assignment.