gunnargundersen1Feb 1, 20212 minEU-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...
Wendi GundersenDec 10, 20201 minGunnar Gundersen Appointed to US Commission on Civil Rights, California Advisory CommitteeG + G is proud to announce that managing partner, Gunnar Gundersen, has been appointed by the United States Commission on Civil Rights to...
Gunnar GundersenNov 23, 20201 minG + G Represents Intellectual Property Owners Association at WIPO Hosted 40th SCCR SessionOn Monday through Friday of last week, on behalf of IPO, Copyright and Anti-Piracy Committee member, Gunnar Gundersen (Gundersen &...
Wendi GundersenSep 19, 20203 min"Generic.com" might be a registrable trademark says SCOTUSIn United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B. V., the Supreme Court considered whether the USPTO’s proposed practice of...
Wendi GundersenMay 18, 20201 minStates are not authors when they produce annotated codesIn Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., the Supreme Court applied the government-edicts doctrine to deny Georgia a copyright in the...
Wendi GundersenMay 15, 20201 minWillfulness not required for profits in trademark infringementIn Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc., the Supreme Court held that a plaintiff in a trademark-infringement suit does not need to prove...
Wendi GundersenMay 14, 20202 minUntimely IPR Petitions Can Be GrantedIn Thryv, Inc. v. Click-to-Call Technologies, LP, the Supreme Court held that the Patent and Trademark Office's decision to institute an...
Wendi GundersenMay 12, 20202 minThe Copyright Remedy Clarification Act of 1990 Held Unconstitutional: States can infringe copyrightsIn Allen v. Cooper, the Supreme Court held that Congress could not abrogate state immunity from suit under Seminole Tribe of Florida v....
Wendi GundersenMay 11, 20202 minChallenging the PTO Doesn't Mean Paying Attorney's FeesIn Peter v. Nantkwest, Inc., the Supreme Court held that a party challenging an adverse decision by the PTO in district court did not...
Wendi GundersenNov 21, 20193 minCCPA: 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...
Wendi GundersenNov 13, 20192 minCCPA: 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...
Wendi GundersenFeb 4, 20191 minHitting the Silicon SlopesThis past week, Salt Lake City hosted the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit. G & G was there to see the new and exciting developments in...
Wendi GundersenDec 4, 20171 minAre IP Rights Moral?Today, we are sharing an article that first appeared in Starting Points Journal written by our managing partner Gunnar Gundersen:...
Wendi GundersenOct 26, 20172 minFirst 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/...
Wendi GundersenOct 25, 20171 minHelp! Where Do I Keep My Estate Plan?You already have an estate plan. It's in a beautiful binder. Now where do you keep it? I tell my clients to keep their estate plan in a...
Wendi GundersenSep 20, 20172 minFirst comes love, then comes marriage...then comes an estate plan (Part 1)Congratulations! You just got married (or you are about to in the near future). You likely planned a beautiful ceremony and a fantastic...
Wendi GundersenAug 31, 20172 minHow to avoid probate (and those fees)So you've read our blog and know what probate is. If not, read this post first. Now you want to know, how do I avoid probate in the first...
Wendi GundersenAug 10, 20171 minMedia confuses Copyright and Trademark in Reading Rainbow suitI recently read a couple of stories on the new lawsuit filed by the owner of the IP rights in Reading Rainbow and LeVar Burton. The...
Wendi GundersenAug 10, 20171 minNew federal music databaseA new copyright bill was introduced to the House Judiciary Committee on July 20, 2017. It calls for the creation of a database of...
Wendi GundersenJul 25, 20172 minMonkeying With CopyrightPETA sued photographer David Slater and others for copyright infringement on behalf of a monkey it named Naruto. Or to speak more...