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Category Archives: News
When You Should Call A Lawyer
You wake up one morning after a thunderstorm-filled night to find your driveway filled with roofing shingles, the problem being they’re from your roof and you didn’t order them. You don’t think twice …you call a roofer. You turn on … Continue reading
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Tagged advantages of trademark registration, can I copyright my computer code, can I copyright my software, can i copyright my toy, children, Confidentiality Agreements, copyright law, do I need a lawyer to sell my condo, do I need a lawyer to sell my house, do I need a will, domain name registration, employment agreements, guardians, incorporation, limited liability company, nevada corporations, non-disclosure agreements, partnership agreements, real estate contracts, service marks, trade secrets, trademark registration, trademark searches, trademarks, trusts, website practice, what to do if you get a cease and desist letter, what to do if you get a demand letter, wills
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YOUR SECURITY IN THE CLOUD
The issue of computer security and your privacy when using your computer or mobile device went beyond the technology pages and blogs earlier this month when it was revealed that intimate images of dozens of celebrities including actress Jennifer Lawrence … Continue reading
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Tagged cloud computing, computer security, customs and border protection, facebook, Google, hackers, how to keep your data secure in the cloud, iCloud, instagram, jennifer lawrence, kate upton, kill switch, nudity, passwords, right of privacy, Twitter
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THE .TV DOMAIN NAME & THE STORY OF THE INTERNET
Actually, Al Gore didn’t invent the Internet. But we (the United States) did. The predecessor was something called the ARPANET, the concept for which was devised by one J.C.R. Licklider who was hired by the U.S. military to interconnect their … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Gore, country code domains, domain names, how to market your on-line video service, the .TV domain, using distinctive domain names, Where the Internet came from
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MONKEY CAN’T OWN COPYRIGHT IN SELFIE
If a monkey steals your camera and takes a “selfie,” does it own a copyright in the resulting image? According to the U.S. Copyright Office it does not. And your cat doesn’t have ownership of its cat videos either. See … Continue reading
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Tagged animal law, animal rights, copyright law, monkeys, photography law, rights in images, selfies
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ILLINOIS OUTLAWS PATENT TROLLS
Patent trolls beware! The state of Illinois enacted a measure this week making it illegal to demand a royalty payment from a company if the complainant doesn’t hold or represent the patent holder itself, or if the patent that is … Continue reading
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Tagged Illinois outlaws patent trolls, patent infringement, patent lawyers, patent trolls, royalties
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E-MAIL & THE ATTORNEY/CLIENT PRIVILEGE
I have previously written on the dangers of using e-mail, which is, probably other than texting, the most convenient form of communications available today, providing a largely free means to send someone correspondence, images, legal documents, etc., instantly, anywhere in … Continue reading
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Tagged attorney-client privilege, civil rights, government surveillance, imprisonment, mafia, medicare fraud, organized crime, prison camps, right to counsel, what is your expectation of privacy, when you should not use e-mail
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NEW DOMAIN NAMES MAY BRING OPPORTUNITIES AS WELL AS CHALLENGES
On June 16, 2012 under the heading, “New Domain Names Bring New Challenges To Protecting Your Brand” I wrote about the challenges to brand protection likely to arise from the approval by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and … Continue reading
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Tagged domain names, new domain names, unique domain names for your business or non-profit, what new domain names are available
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BRINGING YOUR BRAND TO CHINA
I previously reported on the problem Tesla faced when it started to sell its cars in China. See http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/tesla-starts-offering-cars-china Well, apparently Tesla’s Chinese trademark problems are not unique. See also http://markscounsel.com/update-apple-pays-small-fortune-to-use-ipad-trademark-in-china/ Last month, the New York Times reported that as established … Continue reading
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Tagged branding, China, Chinese trademark law, chinese trademark registration, Doing Business in China, Foreign Trademark Registration, foreign trademark rights, Tesla, trademark searches
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E-MAILS AND LITIGATION
The e-mail read, “I don’t want to cook the books anymore” and when the author of that e-mail heard that an Ernst & Young employee who was auditing those books was leaving the company wrote in another e-mail “Can you … Continue reading
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Tagged discovery, e-discovery, employee e-mail, federal rules of civil procedure, litigation
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COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT CANADIAN STYLE
Movie piracy is treated a little differently in the land of Olympic hockey gold. See www.cbc.ca/news/technology/teksavvy-ordered-to-hand-over-names-of-movie-downloaders-1.2546477
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Tagged canadian law, copyright infringement, illegal downloading, Internet, movie piracy, statutory damages
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THE NEED FOR AN “ELEVATOR SPEECH” FOR YOUR BRAND
In my blogs about branding I have previously written about “Using Color to Brand Effectively” (March 2, 2012) and “Selecting A Trademark and Creating A Brand Identity” (April 15, 2010). In that latter post I discussed the differences between descriptive … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, BlackBerry, BMW, brand identity. branding, Google, how to create a brand identity, how to protect your brand, how to select a brand, Microsoft, NSA, Toyota, trademark selection, what is a good brand identity
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ASYMMETRIC WARFARE, CYBERWAR & THE BLOWBACK
As we contemplate launching either a cruise missile attack or air attack against the Syrian regime in retaliation for their alleged chemical attack that killed hundreds of people in three Damascus suburbs last week, the Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem … Continue reading
EARLY ADVENTURES IN NATIONAL SECURITY SURVEILLANCE
In last year’s Steven Spielberg film, Lincoln, there are a number of scenes where President Lincoln visits the White House telegraph office; e.g., one in which he, Secretary of War Stanton and the Secretary of the Navy receive reports of … Continue reading
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Tagged abraham lincoln, civil war, lincoln movie, N.S.A., National Security Agency, telegraphy
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