From Politifact article on Ben Carson:
In response to the assertion that Carson has no political experience, he responded on Facebook:
‘”You are absolutely right — I have no political experience,” Carson wrote in the initial version of his post. “The current Members of Congress have a combined 8,700 years of political experience. Are
J. Thomas McCarthy and Dina Roumiantseva, “Divert All Trademark Appeals to the Federal Circuit? We Think Not, 105 TMR 1276 (2015).
My favorite paragraphs:
“Has the Federal Circuit met the goal of speaking with a single voice on challenging and difficult issues of patent law? Critics argue that it has not, because disagreements
Owner of trademark and copyrights in Russian TV programming sues NY-based streaming service, Actava TV, in the SDNY.
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Amicus brief of 31 professors in support of Electronic Arts in EA v. Michael Davis, on petition for writ of cert:
Whether the First Amendment protects a speaker from a state-law right of publicity claim arising out of the realistic portrayal of a person in an expressive work.
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NFL player sues fantasy football provider FanDuel on Rights of Publicity, false association, unjust enrichment. Competitor DraftKings, which is the target of a different type of class action along with FanDuel, has a deal with NFLPA.
FanDuel does have a deal with hometown team, the Ravens. FanDuel has apparently previously had deals
Defendant’s unauthorized work that made “fair use” of its source material (it was a parody of the movie POINT BREAK). 2d Cir holding: if the creator of an unauthorized work stays within the bounds of fair use and adds sufficient originality, she may claim protection under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 103, for her original
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