July 10, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a drug patent trial in New York to go remote and again delayed a media streaming patent trial in Texas. Meanwhile, 3M settled a fraud suit tied to its N95 masks, and Jeff Dunham received pushback from a company selling face masks with his image. Here are some recent intellectual property updates tied to the outbreak that you may have missed.
May 01, 2020
The copyright and patent offices have pushed back certain deadlines as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, while at least one intellectual property bench trial is about to proceed over video. Here, Law360 pulls together all the updates you might have missed, including victories for 3M in its trademark campaign and a new suit by comedian Jeff Dunham seeking to protect his image.
April 23, 2020
Comedian Jeff Dunham on Thursday accused a California merchandise company of illegally using his name, face and ventriloquism characters to sell T-shirts, coronavirus face masks and other merchandise, hitting Ooshirts Inc. with a multimillion-dollar suit and vowing to donate any award to COVID-19 charities.