Litigation

Tenant Not Entitled to Recover Consequential Damages for Second Hand Smoke Tenant Failed to Establish Constructive or Actual Eviction Failure to Send Statutory Notice Subjects Apartment to Rent Stabilization Overcharge Claim Dismissed Because DHCR Had Primary Jurisdiction

Purchaser Entitled to Return of Downpayment When Co-Op Failed to Consent

This summer, the Madrid System turned 30 years old, and as two more countries prepare to join the Madrid Protocol we look at how the Madrid System has grown as it enters full adulthood.

Now that we are in the digital age, questions have been raised about the trade dress of websites and apps.

Penn State Files Trademark Lawsuit against Sports Beer Brewing Company Can OSU Trademark the Word "The"?

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held that a series of silkscreen paintings and prints by Andy Warhol based on a photograph of music legend Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith constituted a transformative fair use.

There have been disputes over rights to the two existing photographs of blues icon Robert Johnson as well as over who was his rightful heir. The latest court decision involves a contingency fee agreement originally entered into by a law firm hired by Johnson's son, who died in 2015. The case offers an example of what rights counsel may gain from such an arrangement following the death of the signatory client.

In a nearly half-century-long legal dispute over the rights to John Steinbeck's works, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court's $5 million compensatory damages award against the author's daughter-in-law but vacated punitive damages against the heir.