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Patterson Intellectual Property Law is pleased to announce that seven of our lawyers have been included in the 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Since it was first published in [...]

Patterson Intellectual Property Law is pleased to announce that Shareholder Mark Patterson has been included in the 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Since it was first published in [...]

The Internet presents a challenging environment for copyright owners trying to control their content. in this case a court decreed that, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, copyright [...]

Things found in nature are generally considered in the public domain and not subject to copyright protection. Yet a federal appeals court recently ruled that a flooring design based on the [...]

The popular musical “Jersey Boys” tells the story of the 1960s vocal group the Four Seasons. But the story isn’t over for some of the boys. A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the [...]

Costco customers often enjoy significant discounts on copyrighted products. This is good for them, but not so good for the copyright holder. Unfortunately for those copyright holders, a recent [...]

It’s hard enough to recover copyright damages under the clearest of circumstances. But this article looks at a particularly tricky case, in which the court answered the difficult question of [...]

Several hours after a Swiss company released its earnings report, it held a conference call with a group of financial analysts (as permitted by Swiss law). No journalists or press organizations [...]

On June 25, 2014, Aereo lost a landmark copyright decision at the U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 vote in American Broadcasting Cos., Inc. v. Aereo Inc. Overturning the decision of the Second [...]

On May 19th, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Paula Petrella, whose father Frank Petrella, wrote a screenplay that allegedly served as the basis for Martin Scorcese’s classic film "Raging [...]