In two separate judicial decisions issued within the past month, plaintiffs suing AR/VR developers failed to get the relief they were looking for. While every case rises and falls based on its own facts, these examples are instructive of the type of litigation that AR/VR companies are actively facing right now, and for which others […]
Often, disputes between cutting-edge technology companies raise very common legal issues and are resolved by well-established law. After WNJ’s Emerging Media & Technologies team broke exciting new legal ground for the augmented reality industry in last year’s Candy Lab v. Milwaukee decision, a recent decision by the federal court in New Jersey reminds us that many […]
Learn from WNJ Partner Brian Wassom about the amazing potential of augmented / virtual / mixed reality technologies, and the intellectual property concerns and opportunities that come along with them.
| Date: | February 16, 2018 |
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| Time: | 12:00-1:00 p.m. |
| Event: | Intellectual Property Seminar on IP in Augmented & Virtual Reality |
| Sponsor: | Federal Bar Association - E.D. Michigan Chapter |
| Venue: | Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse |
| Location: | 231 W. Lafayette Detroit, MI 48226 USA |
| Public: | Public |
| Registration: | Click here to register. |
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Since January 2011, AUGMENTED LEGALITY(R) has been my primary platform for sharing my predictions and analysis of the legal issues raised by augmented reality, virtual reality, advanced social media, and other cutting-edge emerging technologies. Although I was a law firm partner at the time, this platform was my own, hosted on my personal domain at […]
Although mainstream media still propagates the narrative that Pokemon Go crashed and burned after it exploded onto the scene in July 2016, the truth is that the game remains quite popular, continues to plow new ground in location-based AR gaming. Niantic’s latest update to the game, released last week, not only adds a third set […]
I was privileged to join several other legal scholars and AR/VR professionals at a roundtable discussion in Cleveland today. Organized by the First Amendment and the Arts Center at Case Western Reserve Law School and hosted by the EventWorks4D Hologram Studio, the event led off with a fascinating presentation from Philip Lelyveld, head of the […]
I’ve written at length about the potential for customer confusion arising from the association of digital advertisements with physical billboards and other commercial properties via augmented reality. It occurs to me, though, that the Pokemon Go phenomenon that began in July 2016 planted the seeds of a similar issue, albeit in a slightly different form […]
It’s been about two and a half months since my client Candy Lab AR and I filed a First Amendment lawsuit challenging Milwaukee County’s attempt to regulate the publication of location-based augmented reality games. The Ordinance at issue was inspired by Pokemon Go players in county parks last year, but is drafted so broadly and […]
Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure of presenting with Captain Joe Rampolla on Legal and Regulatory Updates at AWE 2017. The full video will be posted on AWE’s YouTube channel, but in the meantime, here’s a short summary of our presentation. Our three takeaways were (1) Disruption will be met with resistance; (2) Mo’ money, mo’ […]