Technology & Intellectual Property Update

Trademark scams have been steadily increasing over the past few years.  If you receive correspondence about your trademarks from someone other than your trademark attorney – correspondence that looks like an invoice or an offer for trademark services – it is likely not legitimate.  With technological advancements, it is now […]

On November 21, 2022, the Supreme Court agreed to review the Ninth Circuit’s decisions in Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC, wherein the federal appeals court held that the alleged infringing mark was an expressive work protected by the First Amendment. Jack Daniel’s concerns a lawsuit filed by […]

Earlier this month, a federal court in the Northern District of Illinois struck a major blow to the ability of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) to expand the provisions of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (“ECOA”) to prospective applicants for credit products as well as applicants. The case involved […]

On January 23, House Study Bill 12 (“HSB 12”) passed a three-member subcommittee of the Iowa House of Representatives’ Economic Growth and Technology Committee.  Last year, a version of HSB 12 passed through the Iowa House but failed in the Iowa Senate.  HSB 12 is similar to the business-friendly Utah Consumer Privacy […]

The latest in artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived in the form of ChatGPT.  This has spawned new interest in the use of AI to create and maybe even replace human workers or entire companies.  The results when testing the platform are fantastic; I can ask it to write me a […]