Counterfeit products are fake goods designed, packaged, and branded to look like the real thing. They were historically of a lesser quality....

Newcomers to trademarks are often surprised (and frequently frustrated) to learn that unlike business names and domain registrations, tradem...

For more than a century, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has sought to protect amateurism in college sports by preventin...

  As we near the end of another year, I am sorry to report that the number of misleading solicitations and notices received by trademark app...

The NFL team formerly known as the “Washington Redskins” recently announced that it would play the 20 2 0 season as the “Washington Football...

Necessity is the mother of invention. We’ve all heard that common phrase. When your need for something is imperative, you will find a way to...

It is February. Entrepreneurs are all about competition, so while we celebrate the birthdays of Washington and Lincoln, and enter the 2020 p...

It is March and St Patrick’s Day is just around the corner. My mother was proudly Irish — possibly full-blooded, although family lore has it...

I’m going to depart from discussing my usual intellectual property and technology subjects and step on my colleague  Dave Morehouse’s  toes ...

Due in large part to the active policing of performing rights organizations (PROs)— American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ...

How often each day do you send an email, post a Facebook message, or tweet? Add content to your business website? Write a blog? In those c...

For only the second time in NFL history, Minnesota will host a Super Bowl game. In 1992, Minnesota hosted Super Bowl XXVI at the Hubert Hu...

The recent WannaCry ransomware attack brought back memories of  my own experience  with ransomware more than four years ago.  Thankfully, ...

If you shop on Amazon, or watch the late night talk shows, you have probably seen the Make America Great Again Red Cap ornament (available a...

The  2016  Summer  Olympics  are upon us – this time in  Rio de Janeiro .  The build-up to these  Games  has been focused as much on concern...

In the early 2000’s, Google, in cooperation with certain libraries, publishers and authors, began the monumental task of scanning and digiti...

When I visit a city, for business or pleasure, I like to walk.  I like to look at architecture, public art, gardens, parks, shops.  When you...

I have always been interested in politics.  From the time in junior high school when I had to play the part of  George Wallace  in a mock de...

Is anyone else dumbfounded by the fact that we still have political candidates getting called out for the unauthorized use of music in their...

My friend has a home on Lake Chautauqua, only a few miles from the famous Chautauqua Institution – a not-for-profit community “dedicated to...