Intellectual Property Law in Texas.
Texas IP Law explains intellectual property law in Texas. Topics provide an overview; guides examine specific questions.
IP topics.
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Patents
Patentability, prosecution at the USPTO, portfolio strategy, licensing, and litigation.
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Trademarks
Choosing, clearing, registering, and enforcing names and logos.
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Copyrights
Ownership, registration, licensing, and enforcement for creative work and software.
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Trade Secrets
Protecting confidential formulas, processes, and know-how under Texas and federal law.
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Transactions and Licensing
Licenses, assignments, joint development, and IP due diligence in deals.
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IP Litigation
Patent, trademark, copyright and trade-secret disputes in Texas state and federal courts, and relevant administrative proceedings.
Guides
Guides.
Explanations of the fundamentals for founders, executives, engineers, and creators.
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Four Types of Intellectual Property
What patents, trademarks, copyright and trade secrets protect, how they differ and why one product can involve all four.
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Receiving an IP Demand Letter
What typically happens when a letter accuses a business of infringing a patent, trademark, copyright, or trade secret, and the options for responding.
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Patent, Trade Secret, or Both?
How to choose between patenting an invention and keeping it as a trade secret, or using both.
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Registering and Maintaining a Trademark
The main steps from a federal trademark application to registration, continued use and maintenance filings.
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Copyright Registration, Fair Use, and Online Takedowns
How registration affects enforcement, what fair use asks and how copyright takedown notices and counter-notices work.
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IP Licenses and Assignments
How ownership transfers differ from permission to use intellectual property, and the terms that define a licensing arrangement.
Insights.
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The First Appellate AI Fair-Use Ruling: Thomson Reuters v. ROSS and What It Leaves Open
The Third Circuit held that Westlaw's headnotes are copyrightable and that copying them to train a competing AI search tool was not fair use. Why the first appellate AI-training ruling is narrower than it looks.
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Trade Secrets and Public AI Tools: What Trinidad v. OpenAI Means for Texas Businesses
A federal court dismissed a trade-secret claim because the claimed secrets were developed inside a public AI tool. What the ruling means for businesses whose people use ChatGPT with proprietary information.
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The Waco Patent Docket After Judge Albright
Judge Alan Albright has left the Western District of Texas. What his departure means for patent cases in Waco and across Texas.
One Product, Four Rights.
A single product can involve several kinds of intellectual property. Each right protects a different part of the product, and the owner of one right may not own the others.