Intellectual Improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, December 2024Updates on trademarks, copyrights, patents, and much more.
Intellectual Improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, September 2024Updates on trademarks, copyrights, patents, and much more.
Association Intellectual Property LawBy Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, June 2024An overview of some of the legal issues that may impact associations.
Intellectual Improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, June 2024An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Don’t Plan to Win, Plan to Avoid LitigationBy Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, March 2024When contract negotiations seem stuck, it can be helpful to temporarily ignore the differing preferred provisions and reflect on the negotiation process and what might be causing the conflict.
Intellectual Improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, March 2024An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, December 2023An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Legacy Intellectual PropertyBy Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, December 2023Creatives, entrepreneurs, and startups create intangible assets. Many people and too many national media confusedly intermix trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets. Each is quite different, with different requirements, ease of creating, registration requirements, costs, durations, and rules for transfer.
Intellectual Improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, September 2023An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, June 2023An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, December 2022An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, September 2022An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, June 2022An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Respecting Powerful Words—Names and PronounsBy Daniel KeganElder Law, April 2022We have a long tradition of respecting the power of words. Trademark law has long prohibited calling your product or service a name confusingly similar to that of another. But there is little law against calling someone a name they dislike. Just as US census forms have broadened from dichotomous White and Black to multiple categories, the differences between sex and gender and the non-binary nature of both are increasingly recognized. Terminology with the health care field and transgender and gender nonconforming communities is constantly evolving. The existence of transgender individuals is recognized by mainstream organizations. Suggestions for internal firm procedures are presented. The Golden Rule is insufficient.
Intellectual Improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, March 2022An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, December 2021An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Respecting Powerful Words—Names and PronounsBy Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, December 2021We have a long tradition of respecting the power of words. Trademark law has long prohibited calling your product or service a name confusingly similar to that of another. But there is little law against calling someone a name they dislike. Just as US census forms have broadened from dichotomous White and Black to multiple categories, the differences between sex and gender and the non-binary nature of both are increasingly recognized. Terminology with the health care field and transgender and gender nonconforming communities is constantly evolving. The existence of transgender individuals is recognized by mainstream organizations. Suggestions for internal firm procedures are presented. The Golden Rule is insufficient.
Intellectual Improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, September 2021An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, May 2021An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, March 2021An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, September 2020An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, May 2020An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Precedented Insufficient Memory: COVID-19 and Earlier PlaguesBy Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, May 2020January 2020 saw the launch of a novel coronavirus, its resultant Covid-19 disease, a worldwide pandemic, and ubiquitous pronouncements of an “unprecedented” event—unprecedented only if one’s personal and availed institutional memory stops near the Vietnam War, World War I, Jeffrey Amherst, or Columbus sailing to “America,” and if one ignores plague literature. With references and resources.
Intellectual Improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, December 2019An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Inside the USPTO-TMBy Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, September 2019A summary of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office visit to Chicago on July 11, 2019.
Intellectual Improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, September 2019An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual improbabilities™By Daniel KeganIntellectual Property, June 2019
An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
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