Over the years, we have had thousands of consultations with prospective clients. I cannot think of a single time when I was asked about protecting the prospective client’s trade secrets. Trademarks, all the time. Patents, almost daily. Copyrights, regularly. Trade secrets. What?
It’s not like transactional intellectual property attorneys (lawyers that protect your intellectual property or […]
“I paid for it, so I own it, Right?” – How to avoid costly pitfalls in the world of IP.
The scene is almost identical every time: a website developer is holding a website he designed for our prospective client hostage because of a dispute. “I paid for him to design the site, so I own […]
The Internet has been a boon for trademark litigators. Using Google, the United States Patent and Trademark Office website and using various other third-party sites, company owners, executives and legal counsel can easily search and find other companies using marks similar to those they call their own. And once they find those dirty rotten trademark […]
Attorneys, in general, are a pretty competitive bunch. Most of us can be qualified as type A personalities (or at minimum, A-). A lot of successful business people fall into this category as well.
While this drive to win (or achieve something that is perceived as winning), most likely is responsible for getting the attorney or […]
Over the past year or two , Leyendecker & Lemire has seen a huge rise in potential clients coming to us regarding lawsuits regarding illegal downloading of movies. In the past two years there have been several prominent lawsuits filed against thousands of alleged infringers. In fact, a company called the US Copyright […]
The Colorado Supreme Court recently made implementation of certain intellectual property policies and protections a bit easier for companies with staff, who, in the past might have taken their employers’ intellectual property and used it to compete with them.
Over the years Leyendecker & Lemire has worked with a number of established businesses […]
Over the years, Leyendecker & Lemire has represented numerous photographers. One of the more frequent issues we discuss is the subject of photo credits. While near and dear to the hearts of photographers, the topic of photo credits is not generally much of a legal issue. This is mainly due to the fact […]
In general, the federal communications decency act has two provisions that provide very strong liability protections for service providers, to the extent that that protection was once thought to be invincible. However, recent cases have shown that service may be liable if they promise to take corrective action, but fail to follow through.
The first protection […]
Originally Posted 1/15/08
For those like me who before today were unaware of this principle derived from the teachings of a 14th-century Fraciscan friar, Occam’s Razor goes something like this:
All things being equal, the simplest solution is the best
As recently outlined in the Patently-O blog, this solution was recently applied by U.S. District Court Judge William […]
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