Lewis Roca Blog

In January a judge in the Northern District of California dismissed a complaint which asked that a monkey named Naruto be the owner of a copyright in a photograph. The order of dismissal can be downloaded here. The court held that there was no standing under the Copyright Act since a monkey is not an “author,” […]

Part I – What’s in a Name? What do you do when, after growing as a craft brewery for 11 years, you file for a trademark to protect your name… and get denied? That’s exactly what happened to [LAST NAME] Brewing (formerly Dale Bros. Brewery). Brothers Curt and Andy Dale started [LAST NAME] Brewing in […]