Will Rogers once said "Letting the cat out of the bag is a whole lot easier than putting it back in." While he surely didn't intend it that way, this is sage advice to incipient trademark owners. Consider, if you will, the "sport" of Fowling.

Trademark and copyright law are in a constant struggle with the right of free expression guaranteed under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

Notifying potential custodians and implementing a litigation hold plan are both very important steps at the very beginning of a lawsuit.

Refreshingly, March 18 passed this year without the usual breathless maybe-it's-about-to-turn-up coverage that has often been manufactured each year on the anniversary of the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist of 1990.

Digital advertisers innovate new techniques to reach customers at a speed that, for the most part, outstrips the ability of the US government to regulate.

Back in September, we voiced curious skepticism about breathless reports of a buried train near Wrocław, formerly Breslau, in Poland.

As detailed below and in the Complaint, this is a tragic story with connections to more recent scandals involving Bavaria, including the ongoing Gurlitt fiasco.

This posts continues our discussion regarding the status of several major recent regulations by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that target reductions in emissions from the oil, natural gas, and coal industries.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal of last year's Ninth Circuit decision striking down part of the California Resale Royalty Act.

The German federal cabinet has approved a revision to its cultural heritage protection law notwithstanding overwhelming opposition by essentially everyone who commented, putting the draft on the fast track to legislative enactment next year.

In December it was announced that the University of Oklahoma and Leone Meyer had reached a tentative settlement in the litigation over Meyer's claims to La Begère by Camille Pissarro, a painting stolen from her father Raoul during the Vichy regime.

Net metering in California allows solar generators to sell excess generation back into the grid at the retail rate of electricity.

Congress is poised to eliminate the exemption in the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act) for investment companies located in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and other U.S. possessions.

The word on the street is that completion risk heading into the scheduled, dreaded investment tax credit (ITC) step down is already becoming an issue for solar developers.

The estate of Dashiell "Dash" Snow, better known as graffiti artist "Secret Snow"—has sued McDonald's over allegedly infringing use of Snow's street art in McDonald's dining rooms.

How much control should athletes have over their names? Not an unlimited amount, according to one recent court ruling.

For decades, law firms have used the legal industry's preferred economic model – the billable hour – to track time as the primary method of determining value.

Up to this point, the regulators in charge of the Resolution Plan process have focused only on the mega banks and have left the second and third wave filers alone.

Recently, the Coca-Cola Company sought to register two hashtags as trademarks: #cokecanpics and #smilewithacoke.

A "data map" is a comprehensive inventory of an organization's IT systems and paper record storage locations.