Elementary, My Dear Watson?

Wyche Inside IP By Troy A. Tessier There are a total of 60 Sherlock Holmes stories or novels published by Arthur Conan Doyle between 1887 and 1927.  Of those, only ten stories remain protected by copyright – the copyrights in all the others have expired. Leslie Klinger wanted to create an anthology of stories inspired…
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The Laches Defense in Copyright Cases – A Puncher’s Chance?

Wyche Inside IP By Troy A. Tessier Jake LaMotta was a world middleweight boxing champion who fought several epic battles with Sugar Ray Robinson in the 1940s and 1950s, and the subject of a popular movie, Raging Bull, in which LaMotta was portrayed by Robert DeNiro.  In 1950, LaMotta was involved in Ring Magazine’s Fight…
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Washington Redskins Trademark Decision

Wyche Inside IP By Terrell W. Mills The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) cancelled six Washington Redskin football team trademark registrations that included the word REDSKIN on June 18, 2014.  The TTAB concluded that the word REDSKIN was derogatory to Native Americans at the time…
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New Technology, Same Old Infringement

Wyche Inside IP By Troy A. Tessier Aereo, Inc. (“Aereo”) provided a monthly service allowing subscribers to select broadcast television programming available over the airwaves to be captured by an individual, subscriber-specific antenna, copied to an individual, subscriber-specific hard drive folder, and then streamed to that subscriber for viewing on a slight delay.  This new…
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