As the co-chair of the Trademark Scholarship Symposium run by the INTA® Academic Committee, I am pleased to share the following opportunity to present at the upcoming INTA Annual Meeting in Barcelona. Please feel free to share this information with your colleagues in...
Sealing in the Juices While Sealing Out the Lawsuits It’s sadly true that many copyright cases are garbage, and obviously so, even at a glance. In many circuits, fortunately, trial courts are permitted to subject copyright claims to a kind of smell test. Before the...
So Why Didn’t it Apply to Cox Communications? One thing that had been gnawing at me about Rightscorp’s1Not really Rightscorp, since it didn’t own the copyrights, but it was surely calling the shots.$25,000,0002Not as impressive as it sounds. victory over Cox...
Did the Second Circuit Just Kill “Red Flag” Knowledge? Oh, DMCA caselaw, I can never quit you. Even though you really don’t affect my practice much, you’ve become my hobby, such that I can’t resist commenting on every appellate-level decision involving you. The Basics...
NOTE: This is the third (and final) in a series. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. See Part 1 for my sources for information about the trial. But it’s All We’ve Got After two trials, one appellate reversal, another appeal on the way, millions on millions of dollars in...
Bringing Merger in Through the Side Door This is part 2 in a series (of at least three posts). Part 1 is here.1Do I need to disclose that I’m actually from Mountain View? I guess I just did. I remember when the Googleplex was Silicon Graphics and there...
