The LathamTECH Podcast — Turning a London Eye Toward International Tech Growth
12 Days of Regulatory Insights: Day 12 - Redefining Online Gaming — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Esports Fantasy Contests: Where We've Been, And Where We're Going
Discussing Sports, Sneaker Culture and Diversity
The Current State of Web3 Gaming
Conversations With An NFL General Counsel
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau vs. the Video Game Industry
(Podcast) The Briefing: Does This Court’s Ruling Put an End to Tattoo Copyright Cases?
The Briefing: Does This Court’s Ruling Put an End to Tattoo Copyright Cases?
The Briefing: Another Court Gets It Right in Tattoo Copyright Dispute
The Briefing: Another Court Gets It Right in Tattoo Copyright Dispute (Podcast)
The King of Donkey Kong: Conversations with a Video Game Industry Icon with Garry Kitchen, Legendary Video Game Designer and Expert Witness
The Future of Virtual Reality in Sports with Bob Tetiva, Founder & CEO, Sense Arena
Designing Video Games: The Artist’s Perspective, With Chris Perna, Digital Artist and Former Art Director at Epic Games
The Current State of Live Esports with Rebecca Longawa, Founder & President at Happy Warrior and Chief Operating Officer at Native Gaming
Cybersecurity in Video Games & Esports
Welcome to the Major League: An In-House Counsel Perspective with Mandy Petrillo, Assistant General Counsel, Fenway Sports Group Boston
Splinterlands and Blockchain Gaming With Aggroed Lighthacker, CEO, Splinterlands
College Esports and Title IX With Jeffrey Levine, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Sport Business and Program Lead – Esport Business BSBA, Drexel University
Employment and Workplace Discrimination Issues In Esports With Ruth Rauls and Lisa Koblin
The United States Senate’s 99-1 vote to lift a 10-year ban on state-level AI regulation marked a major shift in tech policy, challenging efforts by companies like OpenAI and Google to maintain uniform federal oversight. The...more
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) recently ruled in In re Joseph A. Stallard (dba Osgoode Media) that Osgoode Media could not register the image of a character as a trademark in connection with a video game....more
Video gaming is an enormous industry, currently bigger than the movie and music industries combined, and only continues to grow. Two billion people—a quarter of the world’s population—play video games. Gaming generated $155...more
Sometimes, the best place to determine whether a work qualifies as art is in a courtroom. In a recent decision, Judge John H. Chun of the District Court for the Western District of Washington found that a driving simulator...more
March 8 was, according to questionable sources, National Retro Video Game Day in the US. As one of Foley Hoag’s several resident video game nerds, this reminded me of one of my favorite video-game-related IP disputes...more
A federal judge in New York recently held that the First Amendment right to convey realism in video games can outweigh trademark rights. Activision Blizzard makes one of the world’s most popular video games. Call of Duty...more
Just two months ago, we published a post about an Eastern District of Pennsylvania decision in the Pellegrino v. Epic Games case regarding Epic’s online battle royale video game, Fortnite. In that case, saxophonist Leo...more
Please join us as three of Greenberg Glusker’s entertainment and media litigators present a round-up of notable intellectual property and entertainment cases from the past few months that you may have overlooked during the...more
The use of third-party trademarks in video games is not a new phenomenon. In fact, conflicts between game developers and trademark owners have existed for almost as long as the medium itself.1 Now, however, as games continue...more
AM General, LLC, owner of the intellectual property associated with the HUMVEE all-terrain military vehicle, has sued popular game maker Activision Blizzard, Inc. over the inclusion of HUMVEE intellectual property in the CALL...more
If you know how to Floss and Milly Rock, then you are way more hip than most, including the author of this post. Both are popular dance moves, along with the Shoot, Running Man, and the Carlton, the latter made famous by...more
(Case analysis: Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC v. Ren Ventures Ltd., N.D. Cal., No. 17-7249, 4/24/18) - To assert a successful infringement claim relative to a mark that has arguably never been used as a source identifier for “real...more
In a move that will likely benefit game developers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit explicitly held that First Amendment protection extends to use of third-party trademarks in the commercial promotion of an...more
Heading into this year’s Super Bowl party season, there are two things every lawyer should be concerned about. First, why can’t your team get it together? Second, what do you do if you are asked to explain to your friends and...more