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10/2/2009 2:27:56 PM EST
Michael A. Gollin & Tiffany M. Moore
(VENABLE, LLP) Just before the G20 summit, on September 24, 2009, the US announced a national innovation strategy, joining a trend that includes China, Canada, and the UK ...
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9/9/2009 10:32:54 AM EST
Gerald M. Levine
Posted by Gerald M. Levine
Partner, Levine Samuel, LLP
The underlying premise of the UDRP was protection of trademarks from predators and parasites. In testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives on July 28, 1999, F ...
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9/2/2009 4:00:00 PM EST
LexisNexis Copyright & Trademark Law Center Staff
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) offers both pre-trial final disposition on the merits, or abbreviated trial on the merits, of inter partes cases via Accelerated Case Resolution (AC ...
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6/9/2009 10:36:00 AM EST
Gerald M. Levine
Posted by Gerald M. Levine
Partner, Levine Samuel, LLP
Although trademark holders are not limited territorially in maintaining a proceeding under the UDRP – a “complainant’s showing of secondary m ...
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4/7/2009 7:10:49 AM EST
Gerald M. Levine
Posted by Gerald M. Levine
Partner, Levine Samuel, LLP
Rule 12 of the Rules of the Policy authorize a Panel “in its sole discretion” to request “further statements or documents from either of th ...
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3/20/2009 11:36:15 AM EST
Gerald M. Levine
Posted by Gerald M. Levine
Partner, Levine Samuel, LLP
Against cases initiated under the Uniform Domain Name Resolution Policy the consensus is that laches is not a defense to a claim of violation. Paradoxic ...
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3/6/2009 4:04:00 PM EST
LexisNexis Copyright & Trademark Law Center Staff
The U.S. Supreme Court on March 2 granted certiorari in a long-running case about the copyrights associated with freelance contributions to written publications that are subseq ...
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2/19/2009 1:39:04 PM EST
Gerald M. Levine
Posted by Gerald M. Levine
Partner, Levine Samuel, LLP
The mere fact that a significant proportion of proceedings are decided without any respondent participation – an equivocal advantage because default is not an admission und ...
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2/9/2009 11:25:50 AM EST
Gerald M. Levine
Posted by Gerald M. Levine
Partner, Levine Samuel, LLP
It is elementary that the evidence a party needs to successfully prosecute or defend a UDRP case comes from two sources: that which it controls (pri ...
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1/27/2009 7:20:40 PM EST
LexisNexis Copyright & Trademark Law Center Staff
When identical marks collide, the possibility of injunctive relief depends on the circumstances involved. Although a party might appear to be infringing, a closer look at the c ...
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1/27/2009 10:41:15 AM EST
Gerald M. Levine
Posted by Gerald M. Levine
Partner, Levine Samuel, LLP
Of two parties equally entitled to a domain name, even though one has a registered trademark and the other does not, the first to register has a superior rig ...
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1/13/2009 10:52:07 AM EST
Gerald M. Levine
Posted by Gerald M. Levine
Partner, Levine Samuel, LLP
2008 has been fruitful for personal name decisions. As a general rule a person aggrieved by a registrant misappropriating his personal name for ...
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12/24/2008 12:37:42 PM EST
LexisNexis Copyright & Trademark Law Center Staff
The LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Daily Legal News Podcast was recently recognized by the ABA Journal  as being one of the top legal podcasts. Click below to listent to a summa ...
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