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Fair Pay to Play Act – College Athlete Endorsement Income

Under existing NCAA bylaws, a student athlete is deemed ineligible if they accept any form of endorsement compensation. That policy took a hit recently when the California state Senate voted 39-0 in favor of the ‘Fair Pay to Play Act’, and on Sunday, California’s Governor, Gavin Newsom, signed the bill with great fanfare…

Beyond Meat – Patent vs. Trade Secret

Beyond Meat, a food company founded on plant-based meat-substitute products recently went public and unveiled the “Beyond Burger,” rumored to taste and even “bleed” similar to a traditional meat-based burger. Since Beyond Meat’s IPO on May 2, 2019, the stock has risen over 500% as of the time of…

Federal Cannabis Patent Lawsuit Follows The Alice Patentability Test

In the case between United Cannabis Corp. (UCANN) and Pure Hemp Collective (Pure Hemp), filed in the US District Court for the District of Colorado last summer, Judge William Martinez denied the Defense’s motion for partial summary judgement based on unpatentable subject matter under the Alice test. The case…

Famous Disney Marks Headed to the Public Domain

The clock is ticking for Mickey Mouse ‒ the world’s most beloved animated rodent. January 1st, 2024 marks the expiration date of the copyright for Walt Disney’s legendary short film Steamboat Willie. The film, as well as the characters therein, will forever become part of the public domain to be…

IRS Methodologies for Accurate Transfer Pricing

Transfer pricing affects more businesses that anyone probably realizes. Depending on your business, transfer pricing may be an issue that you have dealt with, are currently dealing with, or may deal with in the future as it affects more businesses than most would think. Setting accurate transfer prices for your…

Trade Secrets Value Trending Upwards

Trade secrets have been gaining on the rest of the IP family. Once an often-overlooked form of IP, the value and usage of trade secrets has been skyrocketing. They have also never been so front and center in business news as they have been recently, with the groundbreaking trade secret…

A New IP Battlefield – Right of Publicity

There’s a New Troll in Town – ROP Trolls First, there were patent trolls, then CONSOR was engaged on multiple occasions to help clients that were bedeviled by copyright trolls. Now, we have taken on four cases stretching from California to New York, in opposition to a small group of…

Forbes: Top 25 Intellectual Property Valuation Firms

The world has changed dramatically in the past several decades with more and more of a company’s value attached not to factories, machines, or hard assets but rather the companies’ ideas, processes, and designs – their intellectual property. However, being intrinsically intangible, intellectual properties are far more difficult to value…