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Category Archives: News
Avoiding Mistakes In International Branding-A Case Study
I am taking this opportunity to volunteer my services as trademark counsel to Microsoft Corporation A year ago, on August 6, 2012, I blogged that Microsoft, in its efforts to come up with a name for its Windows 8 interface, … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Foreign Trademark Registration, foreign trademark rights, Metro, Microsoft, SkyDrive, trademark searches, Windows 8
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SPIES AND SPYWARE
I have in numerous prior blog entries touched on the issues involved in protecting your intellectual property from unauthorized disclosure. Doing so is critically important to keep your technologies, designs, marketing plans and even your sales figures out of your … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Edward Snowden, electronic surveillance, Firefox, FISA, government surveillance, Hong Kong, Mark Klein, National Security Agency, NSA, privacy, Russia, secrecy, Snowden, spyware
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TRADEMARK ATTORNEYS GET BETTER RESULTS
The Wall Street Journal reported today, citing a study expected to appear later this year in the Stanford Technology Law Review, that “Trademark applicants represented by attorneys are 50% more likely to earn a stamp of approval from the U.S. … Continue reading
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Tagged Stanford University, trademark attorneys, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Wall Street Journal
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THE FIRST SALE DOCTRINE AND IMPORTED GOODS
Section 106(3) of the Copyright Act gives the owner of a copyrighted work the exclusive right to distribute or to authorize the distribution of copies or phonorecords of it to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or … Continue reading
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Tagged copyright infringement, copyright law, First Sale Doctrine, imports, Kirtsaeng, Supreme Court, Textbooks, what is the first sale doctrine
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AVOIDING PROVOCATIVE BRAND NAMES
Kia raises Irish ire with Provo car name
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Tagged bad product names, branding, how to select a product name, IRA, Ireland, selecting a product name, trademark selection
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YOUR PRIVACY AND YOUR FOREIGN COMMUNICATIONS
This is a follow-up to my earlier post entitled “Your Privacy and What’s On Your Hard Drive.” An alternative title to this post could be “The World May Be Flat but That Only Makes It Easier for the Government … Continue reading
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Tagged 24, Chris Hedges, FISA, government surveillance, National Security Agency, NSA, Patriot Act, privacy, Supreme Court
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DIGITAL ESTATE PLANNING
Google yourself and you never know what you may find. According to My Life I live where I haven’t lived for two years, worked as a manager for a client for which I only provided brief representation and spent 2012 … Continue reading
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Tagged attorney-client privilege, computer security, death certificate, estate planning, executor, facebook, iTunes, passwords, trade secrets, Twitter, what happens to my e-mail when I die, what happens to my Facebook page when I die, what is a digital trail, who should I tell my passwords to, wills
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SECURING YOUR DATA BEYOND THE “CLOUD”
Whether you are uploading photos to SkyDrive, using Google Docs to “create and share your work online and access your documents from anywhere,” posting your calendar on Google Calendar, using Gmail, using iCloud to transfer content between your iOS devices … Continue reading
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Tagged backing up my data, backups for my data, cloud storage, data backup, data centers, data recovery, disaster planning, disaster planning for my data, hurricane sandy, iCloud, portable hard drive, SkyDrive, where should I store my data
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3-D PRINTING AND GUN CONTROL
In Woody Allen’s first film, “Take the Money and Run,” released in 1969, Woody Allen’s character (Virgil Starkwell) attempts to escape from prison by making a gun out of a bar of soap and is almost successful until he goes … Continue reading
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Tagged 3-D Printing, Home-made Firearms, New Technology, prototypes, Self-Defense, University of Texas, Woody Allen
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FAMOUS LOGOS PAST AND PRESENT
finance.yahoo.com/news/what-20-top-companies–logos-looked-like-before-they-were-famous.html
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WHY YOU SHOULD DO A TRADEMARK SEARCH (MS-DOSn’t)
On July 9th I posted an entry about how Apple paid $60,000,000 for the right to use the iPad trademark in China. On Friday, August 3rd, the New York Times reported on Microsoft’s efforts to find a new trademark for … Continue reading
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Letting Employees Use Their Own Smartphones At Work?
With enterprise favorite, BlackBerry, slipping in favor among consumers who wish to use their mobile devices to watch video and browse the web and purchase larger screen iPhone and Android devices to do so, many businesses are accommodating that trend … Continue reading
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Tagged Android, BlackBerry, bring your own device, BYOD, e-discovery, employment law, iPhone, mobile devices, mobile phones, should I let my employees bring their own devices to work, tablets
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TRADEMARK ABANDONMENT AND BAND NAMES (CONT.)
On April 15, 2010 I wrote on the topic of choosing band names. Yesterday, a client of mine, who saw an early 1960’s Motown musical act, The Marvelettes, perform in Vegas on July 9th asked were there any original singers … Continue reading
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Tagged band names, Beach Boys, musical acts, rock bands, The Marvelettes, trademark abandonment
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