by Joel Rothman | Apr 30, 2015 | SRIPLAW
Our good friend Steve Schlackman has a great post over at Art Law Journal on trademarks. As Steve notes, many companies don’t register their trademarks during the start-up phase, usually waiting until a later time when sufficient cash is available, if registered at...
by Joel Rothman | Oct 23, 2014 | SRIPLAW
On Tuesday, October 21, 2014, our firm dismissed the case against Getty Images. The dismissal was in response to a “Covenant Not to Sue” that Getty Images provided to our firm that says that, contrary to their first letter, they will not sue us...
by Joel Rothman | May 10, 2014 | SRIPLAW
KidSafe® Foundation is a nonprofit founded in 2009 by Sally Berenzweig MEd, MA and Cherie Benjoseph LCSW – child safety experts, mental health professionals, educators, authors, public speakers, and moms on a mission to keep all children safe from child abuse,...
by Joel Rothman | Mar 9, 2014 | SRIPLAW
This past week I spoke to an undergraduate level class at FIU entitled “How we know what we know” on the issue of copyright. The class is taught by Prof. Moses Shumow and Prof. George Pearson with assistance from Prof. Hugo Ottolenghi and Prof. Alfred...
by Joel Rothman | Dec 27, 2013 | SRIPLAW
Unmanned drone technology has decreased in price recently and become more user friendly leading many with no flying experience to take to the skies for fun, and even for profit. As the New York Times reported recently, radio controlled model helicopters and aircraft...
by Hugo Ottolenghi | Dec 16, 2013 | SRIPLAW
In his Wall Street Journal column “The Information Age,” L. Gordon Crovitz argues that today’s patent litigation woes can be traced to President Jimmy Carter’s push to create the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. Rather than stimulate the...