CLOSING BY THE NUMBERS
March 29, 2011
CLOSING BY THE NUMBERS - It often comes as a surrise in legal sales that potential clients are not out looking for you. And you need to overcome the obstacles - a prospect's resistance. In our newest white paper, CLOSING BY THE NUMBERS we look at 14 best practices in the fine art of closing. These are the tactics needed to cross the goal line and include: * How Closing goes Beyond "You're Hired." * How…
News Briefs
March 29, 2011
Highlights of the latest franchising news from around the country.
Court Watch
March 29, 2011
Highlights of the latest franchising cases from around the country.
Enjoining Unlicensed Trademark Use By Terminated Franchisees
March 29, 2011
In a recent presentation to the Maryland State Bar Association's Franchise Law Committee, Stephen Vaughan and David Worthen, shareholders with Gray Plant Mooty, discussed how to obtain an injunction that will prevent unlicensed trademark use by a terminated franchisee, as well as strategies for fending off arguments commonly raised by franchisees when confronted with a motion for an injunction.
Federal Judge Calls Request for $75 Trillion in Damages in Lime Wire Case 'Absurd'
March 29, 2011
Does $75 trillion even exist? The 13 record companies that are suing file-sharing company Lime Wire for copyright infringement certainly thought so. When they won a summary judgment ruling last May, they demanded damages that could reach this mind-boggling amount, which is more than five times the national debt. Manhattan federal district court judge Kimba Wood, however, saw things differently. She labeled the record companies' damages request "absurd" and contrary to copyright laws.
Grabbing Customers' Copyrights
March 29, 2011
What's at issue is control, obviously, and the great lengths to which some will go to maintain, it even as they benefit from the wide-open, free-flowing viral information torrent of the Internet. These copyright acquisitions are not primarily motivated by the desire to exploit the works and make money, but rather by the desire to stop the public circulation of texts and images the new owners do not like.
Ninth Circuit Vacates Injunction In Advertising Keywords Case
March 29, 2011
Remember U.S. Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart's famous line about hardcore pornography? Stewart said it was tough to define, "but I know it when I see it." The quip came to mind after a ruling last month by the U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a trademark infringement case involving Internet advertising keywords. In essence, the Ninth Circuit concluded that there's no strict standard for determining infringement in the Internet age, so judges have to know it when they see it.
New Net-Use Tracking Tactics Capture Privacy Claims
March 29, 2011
The use of new technology makes peoples' efforts to keep Internet behavior private more difficult, has given rise to renewed claims from consumers of unlawful intrusiveness by Internet data-collectors, and has revived the argument that such behavior unlawfully violates privacy expectations.
