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The DOJ and USPTO Files Joint Statements: Patents Still Mean the Right to Exclude.
On February 27, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice (Antitrust Division) and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office jointly submitted a Statement of Interest (“Statement”) in Collision Communications, Inc. v. Samsung...
Copyright, Publicity Rights, and the Legal Reckoning in light of ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0
On February 12, 2026, ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, released Seedance 2.0, an artificial intelligence video generation model that accepts text prompts, images, reference video, and audio to produce...
Promoting Around the Big Game Without Inviting Trademark Problems
An unofficial holiday is on the horizon in the United States, as the highly anticipated NFL Super Bowl championship game is set to take place on Sunday, February 8, 2026, at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The...
USPTO Urges Congress to Close the Terrestrial Radio Loophole: What IP Owners Need to Know
Date: December 15, 2025 On December 9, 2025, USPTO Director John A. Squires submitted a letter to Congress that may signal a turning point in one of the most enduring anomalies in American intellectual property law: the...
New Copyright Public Records System (CPRS) Launched
Date: June 27, 2025 On June 24, the Copyright Office announced the launch of its new Copyright Public Records System (CPRS), replacing the prior Online Public Catalog. This new system enhances public access to copyright...
USPTO Accelerates Patent Issuance: Strategic Implications for Continuation and Divisional Applications
On May 13, 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will implement significant changes designed to expedite patent issuance, reducing the timeframe between Issue Notification and Issue Date from...
USPTO To Suspend Expedited Examination for Design Patents: What This Means for Your Business
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently announced that it will suspend expedited examination for design patent applications effective April 17, 2025. The agency states, that this significant...
Devlin Law Firm, LLC PSLRA Class Action
Devlin Law Firm has filed a class action on behalf of all consumers who purchased or otherwise acquired publicly traded Mullen securities between May 2022 and the date of filing of the Complaint on March 26, 2025,...
New Anti-Piracy Bill Introduced: H.R. 791 Seeks to Protect Businesses from Foreign Digital Infringement
March 6, 2025 On January 28, 2025, the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (H.R. 791), known as FADPA, was introduced in the 119th U.S. Congress. Although not yet enacted, this proposed legislation aims to strengthen...
Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) Filing Requirements Reinstated – New Deadline Announced
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: February 19, 2025 Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) Filing Requirements Reinstated – New Deadline Announced A recent federal court ruling has reinstated the requirement for businesses subject...
Important Update: Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) Filing Requirements Temporarily Halted
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: December 30, 2024 Important Update: Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) Filing Requirements Temporarily Halted Important update for businesses subject to the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)....
Official Announcement: Strategic Alliance Between Devlin Law Firm and OPES IP
We are pleased to announce the strategic alliance between Devlin Law Firm LLC (“Devlin”), and OPES IP and Law (“OPES”), effective immediately, as outlined in our Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”). This partnership aims...
Binance, Ex-CEO Say FTX Users Can’t Blame Them For Fallout
Per Law360, Binance, its former CEO and its U.S. arm told a Florida federal judge that a lawsuit from spurned users of FTX wrongly tries to blame two social media posts from Binance founder Changpeng Zhao for FTX’s...
FTX Users Say Binance Manipulated Market To Spark Collapse
Per Law360, Cryptocurrency exchange FTX users told a Florida federal judge that social media posts by Binance manipulated markets to cause the collapse of FTX and harm users even if the statements themselves weren’t...
Devlin Law Firm, LLC and CoreXLegal Cryptocurrency Class Action
Devlin Law Firm, LLC and CoreXLegal have filed a class action on behalf of all consumers who had any fiat or cryptocurrency deposited or invested through an FTX trading platform during the time period of volatility...