Intellectual Property Law and Copyright Laws

The Madrid System for trademarks is like a chainsaw: incredibly powerful in the right hands, potentially destructive in the wrong ones.

Pryor Cashman practice groups and partners have been ranked in the 2025 edition of the Chambers and Partners USA guide.

Managing IP has included five Pryor Cashman partners on its list of 2025 IP Stars.

After years of preparation and a decidedly rocky start to ICANN’s New gTLD Program due to a glitch in the gTLD application system, the applications are in, and ICANN will soon begin evaluating the TLD candidates.

Over the past decade, pundits have predicted that new companies harnessing the internet and related electronic devices would bring about the end of the record industry, print newspapers, and brick-and-mortar bookstores.

The Internet is about to become a much bigger and more complex place for trademark owners.

The below summary describes provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill that were passed by the House and are currently under consideration in the Senate. The Senate may make changes to the legislation.

In a first-of-its-kind decision, the USPTO's acting director has exercised her discretion to deny institution of inter partes review considering, among other things, the age of the challenged patents...

The Patent Trial and Appeals Board ("PTAB") recently denied institution of an inter partes review ("IPR"), exercising its discretion under 35 U.S.C. § 314(a) and Apple Inc. v. Fintiv Inc.

The Supreme Court of California held that it is a violation of California law for businesses to request and record a credit card holder’s ZIP code in connection with credit card transactions. Under California’s Song-Beverly Credit Card Act of 1971, businesses are prohibited from requesting that cardholders supply personal identification information in connection with credit card transactions.

In a case with major implications for retailers and marketers, the Supreme Court of California ruled on February 10, 2011 that state law prohibits businesses from requesting and recording ZIP codes from consumers prior to credit card transactions, including requests for use in marketing.

On March 11, 2011, the FTC announced that it had reached a settlement with the social networking site Twitter regarding privacy failures on the site to adequately safeguard user information, which led to two high-profile hacker attacks in 2009.