In Brief:  Reaching back into IP history, we find that “A Trap for Santa” was at the heart of an IP dispute in the early 1900s.

In Brief:   Parody is permitted but not always available for registration as a trademark.

In Brief:  An unrecorded trademark assignment is as good as no assignment at all.

In Brief:  A patent infringer is not liable for damages incurred before notice of plaintiff’s patent rights.

In Brief:   Copyright termination rights don’t apply to royalty assignments.

In Brief:  An author has a right to terminate a copyright transfer after a certain number of years.

In Brief:  Abandoned trademarks may have a life beyond abandonment.

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.

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.