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Not Your Property, Your Business: When Customized Products Become the Business of Rights Holders and Courts
Customized designer products (Customs) are popular resale items that are seemingly always on trend. Customs can be a fun and creative way to show enthusiasm for a product or brand and are often welcomed by fashion houses, which may even collaborate with creators to come up with unique designs. Collaborations such as that between the Italian luxury brand Gucci and Harlem-based fashion icon Dapper Dan have been lucrative and have allowed brands to reach consumers who may not have otherwise been exposed to the brand.
Fashion houses are more likely to object to Customs when nude women, satanic imagery or controversial statements appear on them. Recent litigation arising from Nike's fervent opposition to singer Lil' Nas X's "Satan Shoe," a customized Nike sneaker offered for resale, begs the question:
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Why So Many Great Lawyers Stink at Business Development and What Law Firms Are Doing About It
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Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later
The DOJ's Criminal Division issued three declinations since the issuance of the revised CEP a year ago. Review of these cases gives insight into DOJ's implementation of the new policy in practice.
A Lawyer's System for Active Reading
Active reading comprises many daily tasks lawyers engage in, including highlighting, annotating, note taking, comparing and searching texts. It demands more than flipping or turning pages.
Protecting Innovation in the Cyber World from Patent Trolls
With trillions of dollars to keep watch over, the last thing we need is the distraction of costly litigation brought on by patent assertion entities (PAEs or "patent trolls"), companies that don't make any products but instead seek royalties by asserting their patents against those who do make products.