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Intellectual Improbabilities™ By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, September 2024 Updates on trademarks, copyrights, patents, and much more.
Association Intellectual Property Law By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, June 2024 An overview of some of the legal issues that may impact associations.
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Intellectual Improbabilities™ By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, June 2024 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Don’t Plan to Win, Plan to Avoid Litigation By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, March 2024 When 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 Kegan Intellectual Property, March 2024 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™ By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, December 2023 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Legacy Intellectual Property By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, December 2023 Creatives, 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 Kegan Intellectual Property, September 2023 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™ By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, June 2023 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™ By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, December 2022 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™ By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, September 2022 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™ By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, June 2022 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Respecting Powerful Words—Names and Pronouns By Daniel Kegan Elder Law, April 2022 We 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 Kegan Intellectual Property, March 2022 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™ By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, December 2021 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Respecting Powerful Words—Names and Pronouns By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, December 2021 We 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 Kegan Intellectual Property, September 2021 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™ By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, May 2021 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™ By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, March 2021 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™ By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, September 2020 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual Improbabilities™ By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, May 2020 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Precedented Insufficient Memory: COVID-19 and Earlier Plagues By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, May 2020 January 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.
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Intellectual Improbabilities™ By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, February 2020 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Political Trade Secrets: Intellectual Property Defense to Political Hacking By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, February 2020 An effective Defend Trade Secrets Act litigation may not immediately reverse an election result, but it might severely weaken the conspirators.
Intellectual Improbabilities™ By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, December 2019 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Inside the USPTO-TM By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, September 2019 A summary of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office visit to Chicago on July 11, 2019.
Intellectual Improbabilities™ By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, September 2019 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
‘Who Owns the News? A History of Copyright’ by Will Slauter: A Review By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, September 2019 Modern U.S. copyright law has had a number of picky technicalities, some of which were only clarified this year.
Intellectual improbabilities™ By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, June 2019 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.
Intellectual improbabilities™ By Daniel Kegan Intellectual Property, April 2019 An eclectic gathering of recent intellectual property developments.

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