Copyright transfers and licenses may be terminable years later. Learn how Section 203 windows, notices, heirs, work-made-for-hire exclusions, and derivative works affect creators and copyright businesses.

A borrowed car accident claim can involve both the person driving and the person who owns the vehicle. Insurance coverage [...]

A federal registration does not monitor or enforce itself. This 2026 trademark monitoring playbook explains how to watch USPTO records, the Trademark Official Gazette, marketplaces, social media, domains, maintenance deadlines, and potential TTAB conflicts.

The USPTO’s current guidance says AI-assisted inventions use the same inventorship standard as every other invention. Only humans can be inventors. Here is a practical 2026 workflow for documenting conception, ownership, and AI-assisted development.

A parking lot accident claim may look simple at first, but these cases often involve limited sight lines, reversing vehicles, [...]

The USPTO’s precedential Ex parte Baurin decision holds that anti-harassment and separate ownership can independently support obviousness-type double patenting even without patent-term extension—and the panel simultaneously questioned whether that rule should survive.

The Copyright Office amended its Group Registration of Updates to a News Website rule on August 13, 2026. Learn the new definition of a qualifying news website, who may benefit, and what publishers should review before filing.

A chain-reaction accident claim can be harder to investigate than an ordinary two-car collision. Several impacts may occur within seconds, [...]

The USPTO expanded TTAB Center on August 18, 2026 to accept summary-judgment motions, motions to strike, review requests, and appeal-related filings. Here is what trademark litigants should change in their filing workflow.

The Federal Circuit’s August 31, 2026 precedential decision in Constellation Designs v. LG split the patent-eligibility result while leaving infringement and damages rulings intact. Here is what the decision means for patent drafting, litigation, damages, and appellate strategy.

Copyright law asks one question when someone copies or modifies a work. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act can ask another: [...]