When selecting a photo to use on its popular “Liberty” stamps, the Postal Service unknowingly used a replica of the 128-year old Statue of Liberty. Instead of the original version welcoming the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses in New York harbor, USPS selected the “fresh-faced,” “sultry” and “sexier” 17-year old version summoning merry-makers to the New York-New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Robert Davidson, sculptor of the Sin City version of Lady Liberty, has thus filed a copyright infringement action in federal court, seeking unspecified damages.
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U.S. Postal Service hunting for patent infringers
By David P. Hendel on
Posted in Intellectual Property, Postal Service Contracting
“Oh, a-hunting we will go!” The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) is looking for a supplier to help it track down infringers of the agency’s patents and other intellectual property. Under a solicitation issued on March 26, 2013, the OIG intends to start with five patents that have the “highest potential…