Is there an elegant and effective way to use the power of online media to nurture your potential clients? Yes, and here's a process to follow for each of the steps of that journey:
February 01, 2021Spencer X. Smith
Clients want better answers than "we are a fabulous, client centered team." They want to know what you are doing for real and how working with you will actually help them. Process improvement and project management are incredibly effective for this purpose.
February 01, 2021Catherine Alman MacDonaghCalifornia DMV regulations excluding plaintiffs' personalized plates were like the PTO trademark registration restrictions of SLANTS and FUCT — restrictions struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court for violating the First Amendment.
February 01, 2021Grace TuyiringireThe audit clause itself is not something to be feared. It is a necessary means for the licensor to protect its interests and to guard against unscrupulous licensees. But it is a mistake to think that the clause is there solely to prevent malfeasance.
February 01, 2021David SchniderThe legal implications of branding generally arise initially for companies during the process of selecting a company name and any initial product or service names. For drug development companies, however, careful consideration should also be paid to the implications of branding a clinical trial.
February 01, 2021Brandon Leahy Susanna Lichter and Eva YinPTAB to Follow Nautilus Standard of Definiteness
February 01, 2021Howard Shire and Shaleen J. PatelPart Two of a two-part article While the livestreaming of music performances is not an entirely new phenomenon, the COVID crisis has transformed the live performance landscape, compelling artists from around the world to reach their fanbase by producing "quarantine streams," in which they livestream their sets on social media platforms. Unsurprisingly many questions have arisen.
February 01, 2021Gwendolyn SealeIn Dr. Seuss Enterprises L.P. v. ComicMix LLC, a unanimous three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit held in December that ComicMix's illustrated book combining elements of several Dr. Seuss children's books with characters, themes and other features of the popular sci-fi series Star Trek was not a fair use of the Seuss material from which it had admittedly been "slavishly" copied.
February 01, 2021Robert J. Bernstein and Robert W. ClaridaThe court's decision means that in the Ninth Circuit commercial mash-ups will have to do more than place new characters in old settings to qualify for fair use.
February 01, 2021Scott GrahamThe New Jersey Supreme Court disbarred lawyer Gary Mason after finding he knowingly misappropriated $690,000 that investors paid to support the work of a fledgling filmmaker.
February 01, 2021Charles Toutant
