Trademarks

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    Sports IP and the Fragmentation Economy: World IP Day 2026

    ByElmer Hall

    From Streaming Chaos to Athlete-Owned Brands It is Sunday afternoon. The game starts in eleven minutes. He knows which team he wants to watch. He has followed them for thirty years — through bad seasons and worse coaches, through stadium renovations and ownership changes and one inexplicable trade he has never forgiven. He has the…

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    Equalizers in Creative Economy: How Four Forces Reshape Wealth, Work, and Creative Legacy

    ByElmer Hall

    How the Great Equalizers Open a World for Creators There are four great Equalizers in Creative Economy that create legacy and create wealth. Creativity has become one of the most powerful economic currencies, and the great equalizers in a creative economy are redefining who gets to innovate, who gets to own, and who gets to…

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    Lululemon vs. Costco: Law Suit Over “Dupes,” Design Patent, and IP Integrity

    ByPiAdmin

    The Spandex War. Lululemon Athletica has filed a high-profile intellectual property lawsuit against Costco Wholesale Corporation, claiming that the retail giant’s Kirkland Signature line and other in-store apparel offerings include “knockoffs” or “dupes” of Lululemon’s signature designs. This case pits a premium athletic wear innovator against a cost-conscious retailer—and could shape the future of fashion-focused…

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    Future of IP + AI? Regenerative AI

    ByBizMan

    These are the GenAI prompts used to gather information about intellectual property (IP) and the world of artificial intelligence (AI), i.e., IP+AI. This is part of our Regenerative AI project; recreate as needed, when needed, with the GenAI engines available to you at that time. Select results from various Generative AI engines (ChatGPT 4.0, Gemini,…

  • Mickey Mouse Enters to Public Domain

    ByBizMan

    The first trademarks by Walt Disney run out of copyright protection starting in 2024. This would have happened 20 years earlier had it not been for the “Mickey Mouse Protection Act of 1998” (as discussed here). For corporations, copyright lasts for 95 years from first release. (For individual creators/authors, copyright lasts for 70 years after…

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    The Refractive Thinker® Radio Show: Trademark, Patents, and Perpetual Innovation 07/07 by Cheryl Kulikowski Lentz | Entrepreneur Podcasts

    ByBizMan

    The Refractive Thinker® Radio Show: Trademark, Patents, and Perpetual Innovation 07/07 by Cheryl Kulikowski Lentz | Entrepreneur Podcasts:(30 minute broadcast on BlogTalkRadio.)This is an interview with Dr. Elmer Hall about Intellectual Property and the types of information included in the Patent Primer 3.0. Hall talks about the basic processes that entrepreneurs can take to capitalize…