On Monday February 27, the Supreme Court denied Belmora, LLC’s petition for certiorari regarding territoriality of trademarks. At the heart of the case is the issue of whether a company can use the Lanham Act to enforce trademark rights in a mark used in a foreign country, but not in United States commerce. Currently, three …
This past Sunday, Elaine Chao, the new US Transportation Secretary announced that the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) of the USDOT would be re-evaluating the self-driving vehicle guidance penned under the Obama administration. It is not quite clear what exactly that will entail, but Secretary Chao stated her agency intends to “ensure that [the …
Amidst even more reports of potential hacking of Yahoo accounts, Verizon has announced it is moving forward with its deal to buy Yahoo- but at a much lower price. This decision comes at a time in which Yahoo is still recovering from two of the biggest data hacks in internet history and another potential hack- …
In May 2014, Zenimax Media, a company that predominately creates and publishes video games, filed a lawsuit against the Facebook owned Oculus VR, a virtual reality hardware and software company. ZeniMax claimed that, among other things, its former employee John Carmack had taken intellectual property that Carmack had worked on during his time at ZeniMax …
With jobs becoming fewer and farther between many future lawyers are finding themselves asking the same couple of questions. Where are the jobs? What practice areas are expanding and need attorneys? And where is the money? In a podcast styled interview with Asked and Answered, Stephanie Francis Ward advanced these questions and more to legal …
On February 23, 2017, Waymo (a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet) filed a lawsuit against Uber, claiming that Uber stole technology integral to the development of self-driving cars. This only adds to what has been a disastrous 2017 for Uber in the news. Earlier this year, negative publicity from Uber’s response to a taxi …
Technology companies, especially start-ups, have long been a beacon for the quirky yet talented to produce great products that make early investors and creators rich. Somewhere around 90% of startups will ultimately fail and with the speed in which tech startups can begin and either succeed or end, there is often little time spent focusing …
It seems the United States Government cannot stop secretly spying on its citizens, but Microsoft, and other service providers, may be paving the way to at least remove some of the secrecy. U.S. District Court Judge James Robart—recently in the headlines for putting President Trumps travel ban on hold, issued a 47 page opinion which …
Imagine that moment of trying to unlock your front door when you desperately need to use the bathroom. You finally jiggle the key into the lock, burst into the room, drop everything you’re holding, and sprint to the bathroom. Relief. Now imagine that feeling again. Except you’re an astronaut. Floating in space. For six days. …
Just two weeks ago, a United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania handed down a decision compelling Google to produce electronic data, even though the data had been stored on servers in foreign countries. Magistrate Judge Thomas J. Reuter determined that requiring Google to retrieve information stored on foreign servers does not …
