If you are the owner of a property that is being licensed into a potential motion picture franchise, how do you contractually protect the rights to your existing character or property so that the movies and related items being created do not damage your preexisting property? This article examines the approaches customarily utilized.
Who's doing what; who's going where.
There are significant penalties in store for any lawyer who does not make a financial plan for succession into retirement.
Pay Proportional to Performance is an important guiding principle underlying good compensation decisions. Individual firms will select different compensable criteria and weigh them according to their specific views. Good judgment will bring the principle alive.
This article describes some approaches for selecting partners to manage administrative and substantive areas of a law firm's practice practice.
Highlights of the latest intellectual property news from around the country.
The domestic industry requirement at the International Trade Commission has two prongs, one economic and the other technical. Two recent decisions of the ITC examine the economic prong in different factual contexts.
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California recently entered a preliminary injunction against a former franchisee, where the franchisor had repeatedly notified the franchisee of various deficiencies, and the franchisor ultimately terminated the franchise agreement.
Canada will soon have the dubious distinction of having what many believe is the most onerous and comprehensive anti-spam legislation in the world. Franchisors' relationships with customers and with their franchisees will be affected.
Judge Nancy Gertner of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts recently entered a judgment against a reinsurer, its controlling officer and the reinsurer's intermediary in the amount of $4.1 million for breach of contract, $4.1 million for double damages, $2.6 million for attorneys' fees and $1.6 million for prejudgment interest.
