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‘Joustin Bieber’ One App Developer’s Battle with the Pop Sensation

RC3, an app developer who released a game entitled “Joustin’ Beaver,” recently received a cease and desist letter from Justin Bieber’s lawyers claiming that the name of the game infringed.

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Linsanity, Apple, COACH All Making Trademark Headlines

There seems to be no shortage of headlines lately dealing with trademark disputes between major brands and their “lesser” counterparts. This week has been no different, with Jeremy Lin of.

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Why Brand Monitoring Is For Everyone (Read: You)

Over the past few weeks, I’ve discussed several recent cases involving two competitors claiming trademark rights in similar names. Hopefully the message from these cases is clear: if not inevitable,.

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Some Love For The DMCA

I’m not one to favor the stifling of creativity and social advancement, but as a lawyer to uses the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to protect his clients, I think.

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5 Qualities Of A Great Domain Name

Following on the heels of Andrew Torba’s recent article discussing 5 Qualifies of a Great Entrepreneur, I thought I’d give an overview of five qualities of a great domain name..

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May it Please the Court, I Represent the New York Times

Nope, that’s not true at all. I don’t. I don’t even live in New York. But, when Lindsay ONeal suggested that I write a post about this lengthy editorial on.

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YouToo? Video Site Fights for Trademark

Forgive me if I am behind the times, but I’ve just recently discovered YouToo.com, and the site’s painfully obvious trademark issues are just too noteworthy for me to ignore. YouToo.

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Pin This! Copyrights and the Internet 101

Following up on this week’s article on Hackerest (an interesting trademark issue, by the way), I thought it might be worthwhile to take a look at the copyright law implications.

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Who Dat? Who Knows (and That Might be a Good Thing)

When the NFL and a private company both tried to lay claim to the exclusive right to use “Who Dat?” on merchandise ahead of the New Orleans Saints’ Super Bowl.

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Even the Wisest of Men and Machines Can Be In Error

“Sometimes even the wisest of men and machines can be in error.” That 1984 quote from the one and only Optimus Prime sums up nicely the reasoning behind most trademark.

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