Follow @markscounsel I am a Chicago attorney practicing in the areas of trademark, copyright and information technology law as well as general corporate law. Formerly a trademark examining attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, I have been in private practice since 1987 representing clients in a wide variety of industries, including the …
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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. Patent and Trademark Office than those who go at it alone.”
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 by rental, lease, or lending. However, this principle is modified by what is known as …
AVOIDING PROVOCATIVE BRAND NAMES
Kia raises Irish ire with Provo car name
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 to Find You on the Grid.” I must concede I was an avid viewer of …
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 in Chowchilla, California, a city located halfway between Modesto and Fresno which I never visited. …
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 or between those devices and your Mac, or using Carbonite to back up your computer, …
FAMOUS LOGOS PAST AND PRESENT
finance.yahoo.com/news/what-20-top-companies–logos-looked-like-before-they-were-famous.html