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Will 3D Printing End Intellectual Property Rights?

One of the most remarkable developments of the past few years has been 3D printing, a system that can literally print a solid object using only a design and some plastic polymers. The applications for such a device are seemingly endless. It can print cheap food for impoverished third world nations and solve world hunger!...

Myriad Genetics sues Aliso Viejo company Ambry Genetics over gene tests

Myriad Genetics, a biotech company, owns patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, mutations of which help to increase the risk of certain breast and ovarian cancers. The Association for Molecular Pathology filed a suit against Myriad in 2009, claiming that the genes, which are naturally occurring segments of DNA, are not eligible for a...

Intellectual Property & Counterfeiting

Counterfeiting conjures a rather specific image whenever it is brought up in conversation. Most would imagine some thugs hiding out in a dark basement where a heavy machine consistently prints out reams and reams of fake money. While this is the most notable example of counterfeiting, it is hardly the only example; intellectual property has...

Counterfeiting Law in the United States

Counterfeiting has been a developing topic in the last few years for many reasons. While it use to be that finding counterfeit products meant going through black markets and unsavory characters to reach such tainted goods, today, one need only look to the internet. Whether through eBay, Amazon, or any other website, counterfeit products are...

Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and Musical Trademarks

Frank Zappa is a legend in the history of contemporary music. In the 27 years before his death in 1993, he released a mind-boggling 62 studio albums, just over two a year every year. These albums included the critically acclaimed Freak Out, which can lay claim to being both the first concept album and one...

BNY Mellon Patents Management Process

Recently a global investment management and services business known as BNY Mellon obtained a patent for a new management system that it calls Margin DIRECT. Rather than a product or technology, Margin DIRECT appears to be an idea or system that allowed BNY Mellon to enable the secure management of collateral between counterparties by providing...

How the Supreme Court’s Gene Patent Ruling Affects Patent Law

The past twenty-five years have seen amazing advancement in scientific understanding of the human body. From cloning to stem cells, major scientific breakthroughs have turned the body itself into a kind of technology to be manipulated and played with. But the crowning achievement of this new research into the human body is arguably the Human...

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Access to Copyright

In 1998 Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a landmark piece of legislation in regards to copyright and the burgeoning digital market. Enforcement of copyrights was greatly expanded and providers of online services were granted specific protections so that their liability would be severely limited in instances where copyright was violated by users...

Basics of Design Patents

A design patent is a type of patent made on the aesthetic appearance of an object as opposed to a patent on its function. An engine, for example, has a specific purpose or function and this function could be protected by the standard and well known utility patent but the way the engine is designed...