Category: Litigation

One key aspect of protecting a trademark is policing the mark. A failure to police a mark may render the mark owner’s trademark unprotectable if another party begins infringing the mark without recourse, especially if the activity goes on unchallenged for a long period of time. However, a recent ruling by the

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories at various times between 1887 and 1927. Leslie S. Klinger is a living expert on the mystery and thriller genres in literature, including the Canon of Sherlock Holmes. The Canon “refers to the four (4) novels and fifty-six (56) stories by Sir Arthur

Social media can be a powerful tool for all kinds of messages—including citizen-level accounts of breaking news. Huge, newsworthy events on both national and international levels have broken on social media sites such as Twitter. And, for the most part, this kind of in-the-moment, 140-character relay of information has been a boon

A Pennsylvania judge recently affirmed that a person connecting to another’s unsecured wifi does not have an expectation of privacy in that wireless connection. The defendant, who was suspected of downloading child pornography, challenged the police’s use of a tracking tool called “Moocherhunter,” which identifies the geo-location of hackers and individuals who

BitTorrent suits alleging illegal download of movies, from Hollywood films like The Hurt Locker to accusations of numerous porn downloads, have been in the headlines for months. But film companies aren’t the only ones going after alleged downloaders. Ebook publisher Wiley and Sons has been more quietly suing alleged illegal downloaders as