CYBER MONDAY CRACKDOWN PART III

This past Monday, November 26, 2012 marked “Cyber Monday,” a recently established tradition identified with the Monday following the U.S. Thanksgiving weekend, where consumers tend to escalate their online holiday shopping activities. In what may...

IP IN THE FRCP

It is fairly well known that the framers of the United States Constitution had a profound respect for intellectual property, and that Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution explicitly establishes copyrights and patents on a federal scope:  ...

RAPID LEGAL DEVELOPMENT FOLLOWS ECONOMIC SUCCESS

Until recent times, countries like Brazil, Russia, India, and China have sometimes been viewed by foreign brand owners as offering insufficient trademark protection.  Increasingly, however, the economic successes of these rapidly developing economies appear to be...

HAVE YOU PLAYED GUITAR HERO YET?

Earlier this year, Gibson Guitar Corp. became involved in litigation related to the enforcement of its patents against the makers and retailers of the GUITAR HERO video game.   With the emergence of the GUITAR HERO video game into the...