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Update: Issues in P&G Proxy Contest Not Resolved The proxy contest between Procter & Gamble and Nelson Peltz is not over, either literally or on Wall Street. The shareholder vote two weeks ago is so close that the outcome remains uncertain. P&G management declared victory after the vote based on its own “preliminary estimates” of the voting results. Not so…
A version of this blog post was published as a column in The Daily Record. Businesses are often the unintended victims of scams, including advanced fee scams and fake domain name scams, many of which involve the misappropriation or “spoofing” of a legitimate business’s identity and reputation to entice victims. Business reputations and goodwill can be irreparably harmed as a…
What do Baltimore City, the National Park Service, and the State of Michigan have in common in 2017? Each began the year fighting with commercial entities in federal court and in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) over trademarks, registered or to be registered. In Baltimore, the fight goes on. LIGHT CITY Baltimore On March 31, 2017, Baltimore City…
This blog is a collection of three articles written by Frank that were first published on January 6, 9, and 12, 2017, by The Daily Record in Baltimore, Maryland. CES 2017 – The 50th Anniversary Year CES is 50 years old! It’s come a long way since the first show in 1967 in New York City. Then, 17,000 attendees came…
This is the first installment of a three-part blog about governments embroiled in trademark litigation. What do the National Park Service, the State of Michigan, and Baltimore City have in common as 2017 begins? Each is fighting with commercial entities in federal court and in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) over trademarks, registered or to be registered. Two…
The owner of the Washington Redskins moved quickly to insert itself into any Supreme Court consideration of the constitutionality of the Patent and Trademark Office authority to cancel a registered trademark because it disparages persons. This step was taken because another trademark case involving disparagement recently landed on the Supreme Court’s door step, while the case involving the Redskins trademark…
The distressed and disjointed state of U.S. copyright law is highlighted by three copyright events this month. First, on April 15, UB Law Professor William Hubbard hosted a top quality symposium on “Copyright Realignment” at which several panelists stated that infringement remedies are so limited and so costly that many owners do not challenge infringement. Other panelists called for overhaul…
Here’s my list of the Top 10 gadgets from CES 2016. The cost for most of the items is between $50 and $1,000, but one gadget is free and another cannot be priced because it’s a prototype demonstration of a concept. Self-Installing Car Seat. Too good to be true (and it probably isn’t totally true), yet this car seat should…
When you arrive at CES 2016, you notice the lines and the crowds, even though attendance was capped this year at 176,000 to stem the growing number of attendees. You also notice that the owner and producer of the show has changed its name, from Consumer Electronics Association to Consumer Technology Association. The CTA, which began in 1924 as the…
There are always lots of surprises as the federal courts apply copyright law to an unlimited array of creative works, both old and new. Three recent court decisions are reviewed in this blog, (1) a copycat unsuccessfully tried to use the “fair use doctrine” to justify his wholesale electronic copying of the Merriam Webster dictionary, (2) a mother who posted…