April 15, 2015
Taylor Swift Capitalizes on Trademark Applications to Protect Her Brand
Tara Klamrowski
Taylor Swift has been raising eyebrows recently, but not for
the reasons you may think. This time, instead of the 25-year-old pop star’s love life
being the topic of discussion, it’s her recent legal activity. Swift Co
has filed more than 37 federal trademark applications in the past six months,
setting off a firestorm of speculation.
Swift’s applications seek protection for phrases like “this
sick beat,” “Party like it’s 1989,” and “nice to meet you, where you been?”
Many of these phrases are actually lyrics from her immensely popular songs.
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While Docket Alarm was built to be a one-stop legal research and
analytics platform, its uses go well beyond the legal sector. Financial firms use
Docket Alarm’s features to helptrack and analyze influential court cases that have the potential to
impact the stock market. Additionally, firms can save time by using Docket
Alarm’s automated, up-to-the-minute analytics to evaluate publicly traded
companies, potential borrowers, and other entities.
High Frequency Day
Trading
Some court decisions are so important they impact national and
international financial markets.
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Docket Alarm is excited to announce the latest addition
to its analytics platform: claim
institution and cancellation histograms. These features allow attorneys to
dig further into Docket Alarm’s PTAB statistics around instituted petitions—
these graphs illustrate what types of petitions are instituted, what types of
petitions are not, and why.
The claim institution histogram shows how many patent
claims were instituted within each petition instituted by the PTAB.
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In this second installment of Docket Alarm’s Know Your PTAB Judge newsletter, we are
proud to feature Judge Jennifer Bisk.
Background
Judge Jennifer Bisk is a graduate of the George Mason
University School of Law. Prior to law school, she obtained a Bachelor of
Science in engineering, computer science, and electrical engineering from
Vanderbilt, and a Master of Science in computer science from Stanford.
Judge Bisk has an extensive history clerking for various
courts.
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The recent YouTube phenomenon of “unboxing”- opening the
contents of packaged tech items or toys with an accompanying review or
description- has proved incredibly lucrative for a variety YouTube contributors.
These videos get millions of views, along with millions of dollars in ad
revenue. Perhaps the most famous of the unboxing contributors is an unidentified
woman known only by her YouTube handle: FunToyzCollector (formerly
“DisneyCollectorBR”). It has been said that she is currently YouTube’s highest
paid star, grossing over $4.9 million dollars in 2014 from her channel.
It’s easy to see how FunToyzCollector’s videos became so popular:
her reviews of toys give kids (and yes, some adults) sneak peaks at the latest
and greatest.
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Docket Alarm was proud to be a part of the 2015 ALM Legal
Tech Conference, which took place from February 3rd to February 5th
in New York City. One of the most talked about features of
this year’s conference was the CodeX Pavilion— a curated grouping of
law startups and other legal tech innovators. CodeX, a product of
The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, focuses on law technology,
particularly on computational law.
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With the recent retirement of the Federal Circuit’s daily
disposition sheet, you may be wondering how you can get the latest opinions and
orders of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
The Court’s announcement
suggests attorneys visit PACER to view information that used to appear in the
disposition sheet. However, viewing the latest CAFC developments on PACER is neither
easy nor free. The Court also offers updates on their website that
you can check daily— which adds yet another task to your “to do” list.
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Welcome to the first installment of Docket Alarm’s Know Your PTAB Judge newsletter. Each
month, we will be featuring a profile on a different PTAB judge. This month, we
are proud to feature Judge Justin T. Arbes for our kick-off edition.
Background
Judge Arbes is a graduate of the University of Illinois
College of Law.
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The 2015 NYC LegalTech
show is fast approaching. Join us at the largest event devoted solely to law
and technology, taking place February 3rd-5th at The
Hilton Hotel in New York City. The LegalTech Show brings together law firms, librarians,
startups, developers, and many others to showcase the latest innovations and
technology in the legal industry.
Docket Alarm will
be at the Stanford CodeX Pavilion showcasing its state of the art technology.
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We've been busy at Docket Alarm evaluating your product improvement requests and implementing time-saving changes while conducting your legal research. One new small but powerful refinement that will help you narrow your search is an ability to filter by title. Here is what we mean.
When you perform a search for say, "Apple v. Samsung" you get results for all dockets containing these keywords anywhere in the docket text. While this type of broad search may help you start with a bird's eye overview, sometimes you may want to narrow the results to just docket titles that contain this text.
So where is this feature located? In the search bar you'll notice a gear icon just before the court drop down menu.
When you perform a search for say, "Apple v. Samsung" you get results for all dockets containing these keywords anywhere in the docket text. While this type of broad search may help you start with a bird's eye overview, sometimes you may want to narrow the results to just docket titles that contain this text.
So where is this feature located? In the search bar you'll notice a gear icon just before the court drop down menu.
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While major legal research providers have extensive coverage
of court cases, their coverage is not comprehensive. By using Docket Alarm’s
research engine in conjunction with other research providers such as Westlaw
and LexisNexis, attorneys can be sure they have access to every federal docket,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board docket, and International Trade Commission
investigation.
Federal Courts
PACER
While some of the large legal research engines have around
160,000 documents / year in their federal case databases, Docket Alarm keep
tabs on over 250,000 federal court documents each
year. Docket Alarm links directly to the PACER database, enabling
attorneys to search for and download new cases uploaded to PACER before they
become available in other databases.
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Docket Alarm is proud to announce the release of an API client library
to access court documents on PACER. An API
allows software developers to build programs that access data in a structured
way.
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Docket Alarm would like to congratulate this year’s Law360 Intellectual Property MVPs. The 2014 class includes both veterans and up-and-comers, with almost all of the recipients having practices focused on patent litigation.
Daralyn Durie | Durie Tangri
Daralyn
Durie is a San Francisco-based patent litigator, whose clients include some
of the biggest names in tech: Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and Genentech.
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Self-made mogul Michelle Phan is embroiled in a legal battle
over her use of music in her popular YouTube videos.
Phan’s legal troubles began in July when music label, Ultra
Records, filed
a suit against her for copyright infringement. Ultra alleged Phan used
songs and compilations owned by the label as background music for her YouTube
videos without first obtaining a license to do so. Phan has responded
to Ultra’s
complaint, and has also filed
a counterclaim, stating that, although she did use some of the songs and
compilations in question, her use is pursuant to an agreement she had with the
label.
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The days of conducting legal research in a vacuum are
numbered. The latest developments in search utilize sophisticated full-text
search engines in conjunction with big data analytics to give attorneys insight
into the relationships between the many facets of litigation. Docket Alarm is
helping to pave the way by offering a proprietary analytics platform in
addition to a robust legal research engine.
Docket Alarm’s proprietary analytics add context and perspective
to legal research.
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