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.

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.

In Brief:  Don’t use a trademark that would cause confusion with a certification mark.