Google is big. Google.com is the most visited website in the U.S., and it–along with a number of its affiliates such as YouTube and Gmail–regularly clock in as some of the most visited websites globally. And with all that size comes controversy. In the past month, on this blog alone, we’ve had two [...]
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If you’re a follower of copyright law, the last several months have been interesting, to say the least. During the debate over the Stop Online Privacy Act and the PROTECT IP Act, copyright talk briefly entered the national discourse. Although that process ended with no changes in the law itself, it’s possible that it [...]
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office will truly look anywhere to find prior art when evaluating a patent application. This was made abundantly clear by its recent reference to the movie Borat when denying a patent application for a “scrotal support garment.” Specifically, US Patent Application 12/071,878 presented a male support device [...]
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For the social networking crowd, Pinterest is an explosive (and admittedly addictive) new fad. The wildly popular website panders to the millennial generation’s fascination with online soul-baring by replacing traditional social networking profiles with more aesthetically pleasing user pinboards. These boards allow Pinterest members to flaunt their favorite recipes, vacation destinations, home decor, and anything [...]
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Law students today are graduating into one of the most difficult economies in recent history. Since the recession began in 2008, the number of available junior associate positions at law firms has shriveled up, resulting in cutthroat competition for those remaining jobs. Each year, there are simply more law graduates than there [...]
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The New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Program instituted by ICANN was pegged to be a fundamental change in the Internet. While that remains to be seen, many trademark holders are concerned about this fundamental change because an open season on TLDs brings about the risk of an entity appropriating someone else’s [...]
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Should the U.S., Through IP Laws and Other Means, Protect Businesses from “Gray Goods” Imported Without Manufacturers’ Authorization? Facebook privacy debate is a passionate one. A US Congressional subcommittee
has requested information from Facebook, Twitter, and others about how they collect and store user data from mobile [...]
It was early in the morning on January 18. We all remember it. I was exhausted from staying up until 4am working on an article, and I was running on about three hours of sleep and a handful of Bold Party Chex Mix. All of a sudden it dawned on me: I could [...]
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It’s that time of year again, when thousands of students have been traipsing off on cruises for spring break, looking forward to a week of tanning, eating well, and poolside drinking, all in the comfort of a floating resort that will take them to exotic foreign locations. However, recent cruise-related news may give potential cruisers [...]
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Recipients of text messages offering three weekly “flirting tips” for $9.99 per month say they never agreed to be charged for the advice after they ignored the texts. According to a class-action complaint (PDF) pending before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, though, the amounts [...]
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