Trademark Parodies: Supreme Court says you can take a joke too far
Justice Kagan wrote the opinion for a unanimous Supreme Court reversing explaining that you can take a trademark-parody joke too far in...
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gunnargundersen1
- Feb 24
- 2 min
Are you losing trade secrets because of your NDA?
As an intellectual-property and business attorney, I frequently help clients navigate the beginning of various discussions where key...
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gunnargundersen1
- Feb 24
- 2 min
NLRB Says No to Non-Disparagement, with a twist.
A lot of updates went out yesterday when the National Labor Relations Board issued its new decision in McLaren Macomb and Local 40 RN...
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gunnargundersen1
- Jan 23
- 2 min
AT&T Fails To Stop T-Mobile "Banned Seniors" Ad Campaign
AT&T and T-Mobile, it is no secret, are in an intense competition for customers. As part of that competition, T-Mobile started a "Banned...
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gunnargundersen1
- Jan 9
- 1 min
SDNY reminder: Resist the temptation of "and/or" in your copyright-infringement pleadings
In a December 30, 2022, memorandum opinion and order ruling on a motion to dismiss, Judge Woods for the Southern District of New York,...
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Wendi Gundersen
- Jan 5
- 2 min
9th Circuit Clarifies Copyright Safe Harbor & Reminds Attorneys of Litigation Basics
The Supreme Court remanded (sent this case) between Unicolors, Inc., and H & M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P., back to the Ninth Circuit after...
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gunnargundersen1
- Feb 1, 2021
- 2 min
EU-US Privacy Shield Struck Down
This past July, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the Privacy Shield regime that the United States had...
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Wendi Gundersen
- Dec 10, 2020
- 1 min
Gunnar Gundersen Appointed to US Commission on Civil Rights, California Advisory Committee
G + G is proud to announce that managing partner, Gunnar Gundersen, has been appointed by the United States Commission on Civil Rights to...
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Gunnar Gundersen
- Nov 23, 2020
- 1 min
G + G Represents Intellectual Property Owners Association at WIPO Hosted 40th SCCR Session
On Monday through Friday of last week, on behalf of IPO, Copyright and Anti-Piracy Committee member, Gunnar Gundersen (Gundersen &...
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Wendi Gundersen
- Sep 19, 2020
- 3 min
"Generic.com" might be a registrable trademark says SCOTUS
In United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B. V., the Supreme Court considered whether the USPTO’s proposed practice of...
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Wendi Gundersen
- May 18, 2020
- 1 min
States are not authors when they produce annotated codes
In Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., the Supreme Court applied the government-edicts doctrine to deny Georgia a copyright in the...
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Wendi Gundersen
- May 15, 2020
- 1 min
Willfulness not required for profits in trademark infringement
In Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc., the Supreme Court held that a plaintiff in a trademark-infringement suit does not need to prove...
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Wendi Gundersen
- May 14, 2020
- 2 min
Untimely IPR Petitions Can Be Granted
In Thryv, Inc. v. Click-to-Call Technologies, LP, the Supreme Court held that the Patent and Trademark Office's decision to institute an...
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Wendi Gundersen
- May 12, 2020
- 2 min
The Copyright Remedy Clarification Act of 1990 Held Unconstitutional: States can infringe copyrights
In Allen v. Cooper, the Supreme Court held that Congress could not abrogate state immunity from suit under Seminole Tribe of Florida v....
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Wendi Gundersen
- May 11, 2020
- 2 min
Challenging the PTO Doesn't Mean Paying Attorney's Fees
In Peter v. Nantkwest, Inc., the Supreme Court held that a party challenging an adverse decision by the PTO in district court did not...
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Wendi Gundersen
- Nov 21, 2019
- 3 min
CCPA: What if I don't sell data?
Last week, we discussed the kinds of businesses that must comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. Now we will turn to...
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Wendi Gundersen
- Nov 13, 2019
- 2 min
CCPA: California privacy rules change in 2020, and its applicability may surprise
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 takes effect on January 1, 2020. It has several disclosure, notice, and management...
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Wendi Gundersen
- Feb 4, 2019
- 1 min
Hitting the Silicon Slopes
This past week, Salt Lake City hosted the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit. G & G was there to see the new and exciting developments in...
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Wendi Gundersen
- Dec 4, 2017
- 1 min
Are IP Rights Moral?
Today, we are sharing an article that first appeared in Starting Points Journal written by our managing partner Gunnar Gundersen:...
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Wendi Gundersen
- Oct 26, 2017
- 2 min
First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage (Part 2)
This is the second part of the first post I made on marriage and estate planning, which can be found here: https://www.gundersen-law.com/...
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