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It’s Crown’s anniversary & we’re celebrating 10 years of Advising Creativity® ! We are so lucky to have the best clients, colleagues, and friends with us on this journey. Here is a quick video of our Founding Partner @EJRest so you can see where it all started!
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Your year-end checklist should include an intellectual property inventory in which you review the products, brands, content, inventions, and confidential information your business has created, acquired, or licensed throughout the year.
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Do your trademark registrations cover new products or markets? Have employees and contractors properly assigned IP rights? Are licensing practices and agreements keeping pace with your business? Identifying these gaps helps set your priorities for the coming year.
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As colleagues and clients start wrapping up 2026 and planning for 2027, we are taking the time this month to discuss the importance of taking an IP Inventory.
What does this mean for you and your business?
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Taking stock of your intellectual property helps you understand what your business owns, what may need better protection, and what steps to take as it grows. #bestpractices #brandgrowth #lawX #lawtwitter #legalnews #trademarktwitter #legalX
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It's that time of the year when we get to talk about some sweet brands and spooky IP! #lawtwitter #trademarktwitter #legalnews #Halloween
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What would the Scream movie series be without the iconic “Ghostface” mask? If you ask the special-effects company who designed and made the mask, they’d likely tell you not much.
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After a flurry of lawsuits over the rights to the iconic mask – movie companies suing the mask designer, and vice versa – the parties have settled out of court, and we don’t know what that settlement looked like. Nevertheless, this dispute is an example of how something...
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...as seemingly simple as a very spooky mask design, which developed valuable copyright rights when it became a core element of a successful movie franchise, can be a hotly disputed IP asset.
What is your favorite iconic character mask?
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Join Crown partner @Nicole Katsin as she speaks on “Candor in the Age of AI” at the Bar Association of San Francisco Intellectual Property Symposium 2026 next week on October 22nd.
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this panel will examine the professional responsibility issues surrounding the use of generative AI in patent and trademark practice, including attorneys’ duties related to competence, candor, confidentiality, billing, supervision, and the independent verification of AI work.
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Nicole will focus on the importance of communicating with clients about the use of AI in their legal matters.
To sign up and learn more: crownllp.com/blog/nicole-kat…
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Back from the dead. Would you pay to see a hologram of a dead performing artists?
As technology advances faster that we can blink, our options to relive the past are expanding. Several productions over recent years have revived dead celebrities through holographic performances.
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An artist’s estate plan should set forth who controls a dead celebrity’s #ROP and intellectual property rights, including music copyrights, and trademarks. Of course, when most artists’ estate plans were created, nobody imagined holographic performances would be a possibility.
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But, here we are! Having a solid intellectual property portfolio, and a clear estate plan, will dictate whether your favorite artist will be performing from beyond the grave. #spookyoctober #bestpractices #AI #rightofpublicity #estateplanning #deadcelebrities #lawtwitter #creepy
When AI can replicate a person’s voice, face or likeness, what legal issues arise?
@OSeitel will address this question in his presentation, “Artificial Intelligence and the Right of Publicity,” at the ABA’s 2026 Artificial Intelligence and Robotics National Institute.
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A scary fate for a successful brand? Becoming the generic name for a type of product. We’re talking about trademark genericide: when consumers come to understand a brand name as the common name for a category of products or services, rather than identifying a particular source.
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Ever ask a friend to borrow their Chapstick when what you really meant was any lip moisturizer they had? Ever reach for a Kleenex when what you really meant was any facial tissue? That’s how well-known marks can be killed off by genericide.
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Don’t contribute to the genericide of well-known marks! Help brands protect their hard earned value. #spooky #october #frights #lawtwitter #trademarktwitter