In June 2014, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) shocked football fans everywhere when it granted a petition to cancel six Washington Redskins trademark registrations. Filed by Navajo Amanda Blackhorse and four other Native Americans, the petition sought to…
The Nazi art confiscations and forced sales that occurred during World War II have been described as “the greatest displacement of artwork in human history.”[1] It has been estimated that between the years of 1933-1945, German forces, along with other…
Last month, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) voted to regulate Internet service as a public utility. This move helps ensure that Internet service providers do not block content or divide the web into fast lanes for Internet and media companies…
The past year has shown that for many female celebrities, privacy in their personal photos and videos might be one of the few luxuries that they cannot afford. In late August of last year, hundreds of nude images of alleged…
The phrase “patent troll” has been an Internet buzzword for almost a decade but the search for and implementation of effective tools to curb patent trolling is undoubtedly an ongoing endeavor. This blog post surveys current efforts to restrain patent…
Two massive giants in tech, Google, Inc. (“Google”) and Oracle America, Inc. (“Oracle”), have been duking it out on different judicial stages. The fight is over Google’s use of Java API packages in the creation of the Android operating system. The…
On February 19, 2014, Ray Rice, star running back for the Baltimore Ravens, assaulted his then-fiancée, Janay Palmer, in a hotel elevator in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This incident brought an increased level of scrutiny towards professional athletes and their organizations by shining a spotlight on egregious…
Samsung has come under fire more than once in recent weeks. In one incident, owners of its Smart TVs have been complaining that Samsung is inserting Pepsi ads during the playback of their own locally stored movies. Samsung initially tried…
Internet dating websites have become an increasingly popular way for people to meet their significant others. These websites provide an easily accessible way to engage in the dating world, in a time when lifestyles have become jammed packed with other…
The Internet has become an expansive virtual world users around the world are exploring, annexing, and defining, just as they always have always done in terra firma, or the natural physical world. With the click of a mouse, anybody has…
This past October, a group of professional women’s soccer players, including stars Abby Wambach and Nadine Angerer, filed a lawsuit alleging gender discrimination against FIFA and the Canadian Soccer Association (the “CSA”) in the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. The suit…
