Intellectual Property (IP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Open Movements (OM)

Issues and developments related to IP, AI, and OM. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published on December 11, 2025 and includes chapters on IP, AI, OM, and other emerging technologies (IoT, drones, robots, autonomous vehicles, VR/AR). Preorders are available via this webpage: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ethics-information-and-technology-9781440856662/

Research Guides in Focus – Intellectual Property Law: A Beginner’s Guide; Library of Congress, July 15, 2025

U.S. Copyright Office Releases New Copyright Registration Toolkit; U.S. Copyright Office, April 22, 2025

USPTO releases AI strategic plan; FedScoop, January 15, 2025

Pittsburgh has big ideas. One professor is documenting them.; 90.5 WESA, December 24, 2024

Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars at auction with Sandy Hook families' backing; AP, November 14, 2024

Indigenous Colombian coca company challenges Coca-Cola’s trademark; The Washington Post, September 15, 2024

Paraguay Loves Mickey, Its Cartoon Mouse. Disney Doesn’t.; The New York Times, September 14, 2024

Crayola trademarks the 'slightly earthy' smell of its crayons; Financial Post, August 23, 2024

Can You Trademark a Potato? Take Our Food-Branding Quiz.; The New York Times, June 4, 2024

When Louis Vuitton tries to make you change your brand name; BBC, January 27, 2024

Two arrested after US storage facility emptied of $1bn in ‘massive amounts of knock-off designer goods’; The Guardian, November 16, 2023

What 70% of Americans Don’t Understand About Intellectual Property; Stites & Harbison, October 26, 2023

Learn about government resources for protecting your intellectual property; United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), September 1, 2023

Law’s Elizabeth Rosenblatt explains copyright ownership in relation to Trump’s mugshot; Case Western Reserve University, The Daily, September 1, 2023

Introduction to Intellectual Property; West Virginia Libraries (WVU) , Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name; Reuters, July 25, 2023

Tolkien Estate Suing Author for LOTR Rip-Off; Kirkus, June 5, 2023

Jack Daniel's tells Supreme Court its brand is harmed by dog toy Bad Spaniels; NPR, March 22, 2023

NASA unveils new spacesuit specially tailored for lunar wear; The Business Standard, March 18, 2023

NFTs are creating trademark problems. For these Minnesota lawyers, expertise is a commodity; Star Tribune, March 8, 2023