Years in the making, the U.S. Copyright Office has released a new strategic plan – Fostering Creativity and Enriching Culture (the “Plan”) – to be implemented over 2022-2026. Its overarching purpose is to make the copyright system more accessible, understandable, and up to date, as well as more useful to...
Talking about the Metaverse is like having a discussion about what “the internet” is in the 1970s or what “the cloud” is in the early 2000s. So what exactly is the Metaverse and what is all the hype about? Simply put, the Metaverse is a new iteration of the internet...
This Thursday, November 18, RPJ Partner Nicole Page and Associate Michelle Lamardo will lead an engaging discussion at DOC NYC, the largest documentary festival in the United States, on New Trends in Ethics and Documentaries. The panel is held as part of the festival’s “Legal for Docs Day” to explore...
Congratulations to our client Multitude Films, LLC, producer of APART, one of four episodes comprising the new documentary series Through Our Eyes, which begins streaming on HBO Max on July 22. The series tells the heartbreaking stories of children experiencing a wide range of difficult issues including homelessness, parental incarceration,...
We at RPJ are privileged to work with some of the most innovative talent in art, film, and entertainment, and we’d like to congratulate our clients who are sharing their work with world at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival! People’s Television’s Not Going Quietly chronicles the journey of Ady Barkan,...
In a grand gesture of altruism within our otherwise fiercely capitalist climate, leaders of industry in the fields of medicine and technology, such as Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft, have voluntarily relinquished their exclusive rights to their intellectual property in an effort to combat COVID-19 as part of the Open COVID...
Last year the American Bar Association (ABA) published a report with grim findings on the lack of diversity in American patent law.[1] Building on that report and our own experience of the lack of diversity in the patent law profession, we ask what the reasons behind a largely homogenous patent...
RPJ Partner Nicole Page, a guest contributor for IPWatchdog, discusses the issue of trademark bullying in her new article, “Apple v. Prepear: Does Apple Really Need All the Fruit?,” published on August 26. Apple, Inc. recently filed an opposition with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office against the food prep...
Governments, pharmaceutical companies and medical researchers around the world are racing to produce a vaccine for COVID-19, as well as potential drugs to fight the virus in those who contract it. The numbers show at least 70 reported potential vaccines and 150 other drugs for treatment that are in development...
With the world practicing social distancing and fitness studios and gyms across the country shuttering for the time being, wellness enthusiasts of all varieties—from personal trainers and yoga instructors to boxers, dancers and runners—are taking to the internet to make sure that we stay active, even if we can’t leave...