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ICAAN Changes the Web!

June 29, 2011 Internet Law

It is not an understatement to suggest that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) new plan to increase the number of top level domains is one of the biggest changes to the Domain Name System since it was founded.   Top Level Domains (gTLDs) are those domain names at the the highest level […]

Charlie Sheen Parks his Nonsense with the Patent and Trademark Office

April 5, 2011 Trademark

Yes, folks, there may be method (a little bit) to his madness. Charlie Sheen has filed trademark applications for 24 trademarks.  All your favorite sayings: “violent torpedo of truth,” “that’s what winners do,” “park your nonsense,” “you’ve been warned,” “I’m not bi–polar, I’m bi–winning,” “defeat is not an option,” “duh winning,” and the list goes […]

Lawrence Husick to Present on “Understanding Cyberspace as a Battlefield”

January 27, 2011 Internet Law

On Friday, February 11, 2011 from 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (“FPRI”), Lawrence Husick will be presenting on the subject of “Understanding Cyberspace as a Battlefield.”  The FPRI describes Lawrence’s presentation as follows: Cyberwar, as Richard Clarke recently explained to FPRI’s members, is the next great threat to national […]

To Hold or Not to Hold

January 27, 2011 Copyright, Patent, Trademark

A popular method for protecting and managing intellectual property (“IP”) assets — high valued assets, in particular — is to transfer them to a special company created for the purpose of creating, protecting, licensing, and monitoring, IP. Typically, a corporation may create a subsidiary to hold its IP, which it may license back to the […]

General Motors Doesn’t Prove that CORVETTE is a Famous Mark — but Wins the Race Anyway

December 31, 2010 Trademark

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) takes on another automobile-related trademark case, this time between General Motors and Jim M. Sweeney, who wanted to register CORVOLTTE to identify “electric vehicles, namely, automobiles.” Of course, general General Motors opposed the registration of CORVOLTTE on grounds of priority and likelihood of confusion with its CORVETTE mark. […]

Policing Trademarks is Important but Have We Gone Too Far?

November 30, 2010 Trademark

Policing your trademarks is as important as registering them.  Policing requires that you monitor the world of commerce to insure that others are not using your marks — or confusingly similar marks — and, if so, that you take immediate action against the infringers.  Big corporations zealously defend their trademark portfolios but have they taken […]

Keeping it Private in the Work Place

September 30, 2010 Internet Law

Have you ever wondered about the privacy of your web-based e-mail communications, e.g., Hotmail, Yahoo, or Gmail, as you carry out your personal business on your company-owned computer?  A March 2010 decision by the Supreme Court of New Jersey sheds some light on the subject.  In Stengart vs. Loving Care Agency, Inc.,  Marina Stengart used […]

The Secret of the Nooks and Crannies

August 27, 2010 Lipton Weinberger & Husick Blog

Traditional methods of intellectual property protection have their limitations, particularly for protecting ideas. Patents only protect new, useful and nonobvious ideas, the details are public, and protection last only for a fixed term of 17 or 20 years years, depending upon the filing date; and trademark and copyright law do not protect ideas at all. […]

The Good Grammar of Copyrights and Trademarks

July 23, 2010 Copyright, Trademark

In the world of intellectual property, the precise use of language is important, whether preparing a copyright, trademark, or patent application, drafting an assignment or license agreement, or in oral communication.  In a short article on the subject, Daniel Kegan, wrote in the newsletter of the Illinois State Bar Association, “Many people, journalists, and judges […]

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