by jburns | Feb 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
. On February 1, 2016, Solid Oak Sketches filed suit in the United States District Court Southern District of New York against Take-Two Interactive for copyright infringement claiming unauthorized reproduction of tattoo designs. Solid Oak Sketches obtained the rights...
by jburns | Feb 22, 2016 | Fashion Law, Trademark Law
Back in October 2011, A Native American woman named Sarah Houston Brown confronted the CEO of Urban Outfitters regarding their use of the word “Navajo” in a myriad of the company’s products, finding them “beyond demeaning and inappropriate on a personal and collective...
by jburns | Feb 21, 2016 | Trademark Law
On this week’s episode of ‘The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,’ one scene in particular stuck with me. Lawyer Robert Shapiro (played by John Travolta) is craftily assembling Simpson’s “Dream Team” of defense attorneys. Shapiro recruits lawyer Alan...
by jburns | Feb 11, 2016 | Fashion Law
Notoriously known for its counterfeit industry, China has received wide criticism for its markets of dangerously fake products including food, auto parts and pharmaceuticals.[i] The country’s struggle with this issue was further plagued by recent...
by jburns | Feb 10, 2016 | Trademark Law
Viacom may have dipped its toes into the restaurant business before with the 1996 opening of Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. (named after a popular character from the film Forrest Gump)[1], but it has yet to chart the same course with a staple of the children’s series Spongebob...
