To celebrate the 8th Anniversary of our firm this month, I asked our team to share “fun facts” about themselves – and WOW did they deliver! We learned so much about each other as a team – our personal and
Highlighting Our Team on Our 8th Anniversary
AI Update: US Copyright Office Rejects AI-Generated Artwork as Not Copyrightable; Thaler’s DABUS Goes to the UK Supreme Court
By: Andrew J. Costa, Associate AI unsurprisingly continues to demand attention, and in this update, we will discuss two developments drawing a lot of recent focus – first, the US Copyright Office’s cancellation of Kristina Kashtanova’s copyright for the illustrations
NFT Intrigue Continues as the USPTO and Copyright Office Begin Joint Study at the Senate’s Request
By: Andrew J. Costa, Associate NFTs are appearing everywhere lately from Times Square, to Louis Vuitton, to Sotheby’s, where pieces of an NFT art collection can auction for $12-$18 million dollars apiece! (See Sotheby’s “101 Bored Ape Yacht Club”). Yet
November 2022 Client Spotlight
Written by: Andrew Costa and Katherine Cancelliere Each November, ND Galli Law celebrates a few of our wonderful clients. This year’s client spotlights focus on three of our clients, who each, in their own way, is transforming their industry or otherwise having
The Unintended Employer – How New Legislation Seeks to End a Labor Law Conundrum for Some Licensors
By: Andrew Costa, Associate Introduction Trademark owners who license their marks must control how those marks are being used – failure to do so can result in the mark being deemed abandoned or even creating what’s known as a “naked
Reinventing Patentable Invention–Sen. Tillis’ Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2022 Spells Changes to Patent Eligibility
Written by Andrew Costa, Law Clerk at ND Galli Law Under Section 101 of the Patent Act, only inventions that are a “new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof,” are
Reflections on Seven Years, a Pandemic, and a Little Blue Purse – More Lessons in Entrepreneurship
When I started our firm seven years ago, I could have never envisioned where we would be in 2020. At that point the firm was about to turn five years old and we were beginning to see all our hard
Artificial Intelligence on Appeal: The DABUS Saga Continues to Test Whether AI Can Be Named an Inventor
By Andrew Costa, ND Galli Law As artificial intelligence (“AI”) and machine learning become ever more prevalent, new questions continue to emerge as intellectual property law tries to keep pace with these advancing technologies. AI and machine learning are programs
Reflections on Six Years of Entrepreneurship
Our firm is turning six next month and we’ve started celebrating a little early! It has been really fun to grow the firm and work with such wonderful clients and our fantastic team! As we grow and scale, I have learned a few important lessons about running a business, which I will share with you.
Looking Ahead: Preparing for a Post Covid-19 World
The enforceability of non-compete agreements and trade secret protection Post-COVID-19 as well answer FAQs on the Paycheck Protection Program.
What We’ve Been Up To…
Nicole Galli and intern Shoshana Mahon published article in The Legal Intelligencer discussing the effect of company furloughs and increased unemployment rates on the enforceability of non-compete agreements.