ARE Law Trademark Alert: “And That’s the Way the Cookie Crumbles:” The Third Circuit Reminds us that Functional Designs are not Protectable by Trade Dress and Copying is Okay Where There Are no Protectable Rights

We spend so much of our lives hearing that “copying” is a bad thing.    Sometimes it takes a simple case to remind us that in the business world, unless someone has a protectable intellectual property right, copying is fair game. In fact, copying is a good thing – it both promotes competition and lets […]