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Boyle Fredrickson Attorney Rated AV Preeminent for 15 Years
Boyle Fredrickson shareholder Keith Baxter has been rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell for the 15th straight year for his work in the Intellectual Property practice area. Matindale-Hubbell has provided peer review ratings for more than a century. The AV Preeminent rating indicates that the recipient's peers have...
U.S. Supreme Court – Recent IP Decisions
The U.S. Supreme Court’s most recent term addressed various cases that relate to intellectual property. Here is a brief overview of three of them. HALO ELECTRONICS v. PULSE ELECTRONICS The Halo decision addresses enhanced damages in patent litigations. In Halo, the Supreme Court rejects a...
#Trademarks
Hashtags serve an important function in social media, whether used ironically (#yolo – which stands for you only live once) or earnestly (#blessed). By adding a pound sign before a word or phrase, content is organized by topic, which makes it easier to track discussions...
Trademark Squatters: 1; Apple: 0
Move over, Apple. There’s a new IPHONE in town. Of course, that town is in China and, oddly enough, that IPHONE is a line of purses and wallets, but still… In 2002, well before the seminal device’s 2009 release, Apple applied to register the IPHONE...
2016 Best Places to Work Award
We are excited to announce that we won a 2016 Best Places to Work award from the Milwaukee Business Journal! Nearly 160 Milwaukee-area firms were nominated and we were one of 44 winners. At Boyle Fredrickson, we strive to make sure our employees are happy...
Kanalakis Named Shareholder; Stock Joins Boyle Fredrickson
Boyle Fredrickson is pleased to announce the promotion of Scott W. Kanalakis to shareholder and the addition of Mitchell J. Stock. Scott Kanalakis joined the firm in 2012, focusing his practice on patent prosecution, opinion drafting, and other pre-litigation matters. With a background in electrical engineering,...
Apple vs. Samsung: Court Overturns $120 Million Apple Patent Victory
If you think it seems like Apple and Samsung have been battling over intellectual property for a long time, you’d be right. Now in its fifth year, the competitive issues involving the patents in question have largely been rectified and the market has moved on...
Macy’s Loses Six Trademarks, Retains Rights to Marshall Field’s Trademark
Much like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, if a business is acquired and its name is no longer in use, are its trademark rights still valid? That was the crux of a 5-year legal battle between Macy’s and Strategic Marks over the ownership...
Happy Birthday to You: Megahit Song May Enter Public Domain
Celebrating a birthday and singing “Happy Birthday to You” go together like, well, cake and ice cream – or, perhaps more accurately, copyright and money. This quintessential song of celebration receives somewhere around $2 million per year in usage fees, making it one of the...
Trademark Standoff in Yosemite National Park
Just mentioning Yosemite National Park will conjure up many a spectacular mental image. Towering granite cliffs emerging from a verdant valley. Trees that make you wonder how something living can possibly be that big and that old. Waterfalls that spring forth from the rock like...
