Amy Landers
@amylanders
Intellectual property, law specialist, and professor of law Fourth edition of Understanding Patent Law (revised and updated)
Probably should be teaching journalists to ask some version of this question at appropriate times
Fender sues guitar maker for copyright infringement. Stratocaster is on the left, the accused Harley-Benton (German) guitar on the right www.reuters.com/legal/legali...
Brown's AI study has some excellent analysis and data about AI use in its university, some suggestions that are worth mulling over. provost.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
Although the ban is directed to foreign nationals, it appears to be a geo block (am an American currently in France)
Lacoste’s new alligator, first time made of flowers. Does it function as a mark or as ornament?
Vogue sues "a one-woman editorial operation that sells fewer than 100 copies per issue" Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/s...
Some images from Patagonia's complaint against drag queen Pattie Gonia after TM application was filed. Complaint alleges the parties had an agreement that Pattie would not use the name in commercial products. #trademark
Waiting to get off flight of this year’s AALS. The IP Section has the best panels. But this flight is full
Why would these AI-training sites need to be public, with somewhat confusing names/logo's and layout, and also include an input for credit card numbers? real-staynb.vercel.app/stay/2 Seems like such a terrible idea.
Lynn Conway, who co-authored the book on VLSI, a system which democratized chip design. She made the first superscalar computer possible. In 1968, she was fired from IBM when she announced that she intended to undergo surgery to affirm her gender. IBM apologized 50 years later.
On productivity hacks--I think about this video about once a week since I saw it. @hbr.org
From Williams Sonoma's False Advertising complaint against Quince, alleging that the image shows a product that WS has never sold, and therefore cannot be comparable. (same with the rug image for Pottery Barn)
Morgan and Morgan's TM declaratory relief action against Disney for use of Steamboat Willie in its ads. Link to complaint: fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...
