The Law Office of Fred Tong

03/28/2022

This is probably a fight that's been brewing for some time already. While small content creators just can't fight YouTube's DMCA policies, Bungie can. When it comes down to it, the DMCA is too old and made for a different generation of the Internet.

Lawsuit: "John Does" easily tricked YouTube by impersonating Destiny 2 maker.

01/12/2022

Unsurprisingly, patent grants and applications are down throughout the pandemic. Will that change now that vaccinations are more available and there's more knowledge available about dealing with COVID?

Total utility patent grants are down about 7% for calendar year 2021. Still the total ranks as the third highest …

01/11/2022

Another day, another trademark registration in the books. While I've worked on trademark registrations throughout the world, primarily in Asia and Europe, this is my first registration from Peru.

12/21/2021

The DMCA really needs to get updated because it just can't keep up with modern technology. With the recent rise of NFTs, the challenges continue for the US's outdated and antiquated copyright system.

Director Quentin Tarantino recently announced that he would be auctioning as non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) excerpts from the original handwritten screenplay of the 1994 film Pulp Fiction.

11/18/2021

Lightstream went after StreamLabs on twitter because of the alleged similarities between websites just goes to show that trade dress is just as important to brand building as traditional trademark concepts of wordmarks and logos.

The company has also been accused of copying from its competitor Lightstream

11/17/2021

RIP Staples Center, long live Crypto.com Center. 20 years for $700 million shows the current financial clout of crypto. But, the big question is how many banners are the Lakers going to raise at Crypto.com Center?

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Crypto.com's coin CRO rallies after the cryptocurrency trading platform buys naming rights to the Los Angeles Lakers' Staples Center.

11/16/2021

This is too bad, I was really looking forward to returning to Singapore after so many years.

INTA announced that it will be holding its 2022 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., April 30 to May 4—returning to an in-person format for the first time in more than two years.

11/15/2021

Admittedly, I haven't read the opposition documents, but I'm going to side with the Examining Attorney here. IMO, there isn't liklihood of confusion between the Doom video game and the Doomscroll band. How far will Doomscroll go to keep their band name?

Metal guitarist thinks Doomscroll is a great name for a band. Id Software disagrees.

11/12/2021

The Mamba will continue to live through wine. I need to find more clients like Vanessa Bryant. She clearly believes in the power of trademarks and is trademarking everything that the Mamba's trademark is going to be gracing.

The estate of the late NBA legend Kobe Bryant has filed four new trademark applications under the name “Mamba Vino.” […] The post Vanessa Bryant files wine trademarks through Kobe Bryant estate appeared first on TheGrio.

11/04/2021

Even though headlines around internet piracy has died down over the past few years, the DMCA is still the 1 ton sledgehammer that bigtime copyright holders aren't afraid to swing.

Shueisha intends to sue alleged pirates // Gigazine and TorrentFreak reported on Thursday that Japanese manga publisher Shueisha has filed a legal application...

11/02/2021

Is this a sign that the residential real estate market might be starting to settle down a little bit?

Zillow is getting out of the iBuying business and will shut down its Zillow Offers division, resulting in a 25% reduction in its staff.

10/28/2021

Google became Alphabet, now Facebook becomes Meta.

The effort is meant to shift its image from a social media giant to a “metaverse."