The recent Federal Court case of Sanders v. Smart & Biggar Intellectual Property and Technology Law is a good example of the difference that well prepared evidence can make.  The Trademarks Opposition Board expunged the applicant’s trade-mark, UGGLY BOOTS pursuant to section 45 of the Trade-marks Ac ...

Here is a Wichita Eagle article reporting that Kurt Kerns won an acquittal in State v. Ware, ending a Sedgwick County criminal threat prosecution. According to the article, Mr. Ware was going to his car to get an assault rifle to break up a fight in a bar parking lot at the request of the bar owner. ...

This is the first of several iPhone apps I’m making based on the data I’ve collected and transformed. It will be “donation-ware”: all the proceeds will go to the Public Interest Law Project at Lewis & Clark Law School. See the Flickr image set for more pictures.  It’ ...

From Ware v. South Texas Family Planning & Health Corp. (S.D. Tex. Jan. 26), a case in which a father sued a clinic for giving a “morning-after” contraceptive pill to his 14-year-old daughter without the parents’ permission: Plaintiff contends that Defendants are a public nuisance because the “a ...

Ein Bücherbus, der Stadtteilbibliotheken ersetzt, aber auch gleichzeitig eine mobile Verwaltungsstelle enthält, das wäre der Traum eines Kommunalpolitikers. Fahrbare Bibliothek, fahrbares Bürgerzentrum – viel gespart, ist die Vorstellung. [via Newsclick.de]

Kristine Grady Derewicz has been named the new managing shareholder for Littler Mendelson’s Philadelphia office. She was preceded in the position by Thomas Bender, who is credited with expanding the office from an original 10 attorneys and 6 staff members in March 2001 to 29 attorneys and 19 staff b ...

Defendant’s broadranging attack on seizure of e-mails that he sent was [utterly frivolous and] rejected. He assumed the risk that the recipient would keep and make use of them. And, violation of the Yahoo service agreement is hardly a ground to suppress. United States v. Grady, 2009 U.S. Dist. LE ...

Blutproben von alkoholisierten Autofahrern sollten nach Ansicht von Bundesgerichtshof-Präsident Klaus Tolksdorf ohne Zustimmung eines Richters möglich sein. Nach dem geltenden Gesetz sei die Blutentnahme kaum praktikabel. Tolksdorf forderte den Gesetzgeber auf, die Vorschriften zu ändern. “Ei ...

The Canadian Intellectual Property Office has initiated two short consultations (January 29 to February 28, 2010) for proposed Practice Notices regarding section 12(1)(b) of the Trade-marks Act.  Section 12(1)(b) provides that a trademark is registrable if it is not, whether depicted, written or sou ...

February is always a hard month for my family. My beloved father, John Miller, died in his sleep on February 7, 2001, at the age of 55. He left behind a devastated family who are still grieving his loss and all of the wonderful moments that he missed – attending the wedding of his son, watch ...