Intellectual Property Law
New Matter FALL 2014, Volume 39, Number 3
Content
- 2014 New Matter Author Submission Guidelines
- Case Comments
- Cheerleading Uniforms and Copyright Separability
- Contents
- Copyright Interest Group
- Design Patents—Taking a Closer Look at These Valuable Assets
- Entertainment and Sports Law Interest Group
- In a Split Decision the Ttab Finds Redskins Disparaging Blackhorse v. Pro-Football, Inc. Cancellation No. 92046185 (T.T.a.B. June 18, 2014)
- Intellectual Property Section Executive Committee 2013-2014
- Intellectual Property Section Interest Group Representatives 2013-2014
- International Ip Developments
- Letter from the Chair
- Licensing Interest Group
- Litigation Interest Group
- MCLE Self-Study Article
- Monsanto and Myriad: Is the Supreme Court Rendering Consistent Decisions When it Comes to Human Versus Non-Human Gene Patentability?
- Ninth Circuit Report
- Patent Interest Group
- Preparing to Defend a Section 337 Action: What District Court Litigators Need to Know
- Raising Healthy Patents
- The Law of the Land
- The Licensing Corner
- Trademark Interest Group
- Uncle Sam Wants You! a Call to Pro Bono Service for Patent Practitioners
- Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
Thomas A. Ward
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Welcome to the fall edition of New Matter for 2014. The cover art of this edition features our Trademark Interest Group. Popular cell phone manufacturer litigation in the news recently argues the similarity of the cell phone designs, so we realize that not all the readers will recognize the phone. Interestingly the registration on the cover is marked as abandoned after an inter-partes decision in February of 2014. Perhaps the mark could have been moved from the principal register to the supplemental register. Maybe registration difficulties arose because the application was for a non-word mark. For an understanding of trademark issues such as why a trademark application would be abandoned or what is the difference between the principal and supplemental register, we recommend reading articles in New Matter as well as getting involved in the California Bar IP Section’s Trademark Interest Group. Upcoming New Matter issues will continue to have different feature artwork from our other interest groups, so we encourage everyone to keep reading.
This edition of New Matter includes eight feature articles that spread across the IP spectrum and cover recent Supreme Court cases. We would like to give a special note of thanks to the additional Article Editors who volunteered on short notice to help edit articles for this issue. With summer vacations eliminating some of our regular article editors, and additional article submissions, a great need for their support arose. If you are interested in assisting New Matter as an Article Editor in the future, please contact our Acquisitions Editor, Amanda Nye.