GENERAL INTEREST

Originally Posted 12/5/06

As you probably know from previous posts, we have recently moved and consequently negotiated and signed a new lease. It was one of those times where I get to sit on the other side of things and view things from a view that my clients usually get. It dawned on me that I […]

Originally Posted 11/27/06 

In Sunday’s Denver Post, Al Lewis wrote a column about Rich Cohen, the grandson of the inventor of Sweet & Low and his book about his family. The article is a book review of sorts of Cohen’s book about his disfunctional family that disinherited his mother and her children. But the point […]

Originally Posted 6/20/06 

Well, given all of the press about sexual predators and all of the other concerns surrounding Myspace.com, you knew it would be inevitable. A 14 year old girl from Austin Texas has filed suit against Myspace.com seeking a reported 30 million dollars alledging that she was sexually mollested by a fellow Myspace user […]

Originally Posted 4/6/06 

Over the years of dealing with individual inventors and start up companies I have noticed an interesting phenomenon concerning product ideas and their respective product names. Quite often clients come in with a business or product idea and have a corresponding name that is attached. It is very interesting to see how attached […]

Originally Posted 3/20/06

Leyendecker & Lemire client Northanger Productions, LLC is an independent film company based in Mesa Arizona and brain child of author Quentin Dodd and Guy Davis. Northanger Productions is currently in the middle of filming in its independent film “Zorg and Andy”, which is being dubbed a supernatural comedy. The movie follows a […]

Originally Posted 2/22/06

When you are registering a domain name for your business, spend a little extra and register as many related alternative domains as possible. For instance, if your preferred domain is “reallygreatdomain.com”, you may want to also register “reallygreatdomains.com” as well. You also may want to lock up the .net, .org, .tv, .name and […]

Originally Posted 2/21/06 

In this blog post I am doing something a bit different. I am not going to talk about law or business or our firm – I wanted to highlight a very special event that is starting tomorrow February 22 and will continue on until February 24 that has become special for me and […]

Originally Posted 1/26/06 

Michelle Roark, a client of Leyendecker & Lemire, will be representing the United States in Women’s Freestyle Moguls in Torino. In the past few weeks, Michelle has won two World Cup events so she is definitely peaking at the right time. We wish her the best of luck and encourage all of our […]

Orginally Posted 1/19/06 

The SOLA blog posts have been the most popular on our website.

Over the past several months we have received a number of emails concerning SOLA and its principles. I am not going to share the actual content of the emails because I have not had the opportunity to verify their veracity. Nevertheless, I […]

Originally Posted 1/11/06 

In the fist installment of this article, we examined the case of Bridgeport Music, Inc. V. Dimension Films which surrounds digital sampling. Additionally I put forth the opinion of Peter Gutmann, an attorney who wrote an article in the October issue of IP Law and Business critiquing the decision and ultimately making his […]