Be sure to save the date 11/11/11 for the IPLJ Symposium entitled “IP Bullying or Proactive Enforcement?” Where is the line drawn between fair and effective enforcement of intellectual property rights and so-called “bullying”? Stories of pugnacious patent-holding companies, combative copyright trolls, and threatening trademark enforcers abound in the news recently. Our esteemed panelists will [...]

To develop a picture of Internet censorship around the world, Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, has developed herdict.org. A compound of “herd” and “verdict,” herdict asks users to report whether a given website is accessible or inaccessible, and loads the data onto a world map in real time.  [...]

Stop the train presses. The uniform font of the NYC subway system signage is Helvetica. But since the “9/11 memorial” has become its own brand, and is printed in its own font, NY historians and journalists wonder “where will [branding] stop?” Insert “subway stop” pun here. But as it stands, MTA officials do not believe [...]

Will the Internet, as many of us know and love it, be forced to change its ways? It very well may be. A bill introduced in the House last week, entitled the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), would allow copyright holders to order ISPs to shut down any website that “engages in, enables, or facilitates” [...]

A new documentary is out about boxer Chuck Wepner A.K.A. “The Bayonne Bleeder” who was the inspiration for Sylvester Stallone’s “Rocky” films but never got a cut of the billion-dollar franchise. Naturally, Wepner was also inspired by the films… inspired to sue. “The Real Rocky” premiered on ESPN on October 25th, but check local listings [...]

The Fordham Sports Law Forum is dedicated to bringing interesting issues in sports law to the Fordham legal community. Each week, in conjunction with the Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, members of the Fordham Sports Law Forum write posts about current sports law issues and events. Will former college athletes force the NCAA [...]

Get ready to roll your eyes because it is inevitable. A Long Island couple claiming to be supporters of Occupy Wall Street, a movement which has demonstrated anti-capitalist ideals, is engaging in a fundamental capitalist activity that has other OWS supporters raising eyebrows (or rolling eyeballs.) The activity? Trademarking. Specifically, the couple wants to trademark [...]

My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, The uncertain sickly appetite to please.                                    -Shakespeare Without putting too fine a point on it, let’s just say that the longing desire to nurse the disease of my appetite has to [...]

IPLJ’s Business Editor, Amit R. Parikh, co-authored an article with Charles R. Macedo, a partner at Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein, and Jessica Capasso, an associate at Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein.  This article addresses a Supreme Court opinion that decides employees’ rights to inventions under the Bayh-Doyle Act.  The article examines the opinion in detail and notes [...]

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