Greenspoon Marder LLP
JANUARY 22, 2018
By: Sharon Urias, Esq. As previously discussed, colors may be trademarked, in particular when a product’s color develops a secondary meaning in the market, such as when companies and their associated products use specific colors that acquire and establish a distinctiveness in the minds of consumers. Examples include: UPS’s “Brown,” Tiffany’s “Blue,” and “Coco-Cola’s “Red.
GDB Firm Blog
JANUARY 17, 2018
Bucking a trend to the contrary, a recent decision finds condo unit owners can sue an architect for construction defects—even though they had no direct contract with the architect.
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KMK Blog
JANUARY 30, 2018
The MLB team in Cleveland has finally decided to stop wearing "Chief Wahoo," a caricature of a Native American, on their uniforms. The change will happen in 2019. Interestingly, however, the team told ESPN that it "will still sell merchandise featuring the mascot in Northeast Ohio" because "[t]he team must maintain a retail presence so that MLB and the Indians can keep ownership of the trademark.
Greenspoon Marder LLP
JANUARY 5, 2018
By: Sharon Urias, Esq. In November, we reported that Allstate Insurance Company (“Allstate”) had sued Kia Motors (“Kia”) for trademark infringement over Kia’s “Drive Wise” moniker and technology, which Allstate argued was too similar to its “Drivewise” insurance product. [link] After the November 2017 trial, a federal jury issued an advisory verdict in favor of Allstate, finding that there was a likelihood of consumer confusion between Allstate’s free downloadable computer application program wh
Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera
Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?
GDB Firm Blog
JANUARY 31, 2018
The New York State Court System opened the new year with a swath of proposed changes to the way criminal justice is administered in New York State. These changes, which come in the form of administrative directives from Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, may help to streamline the criminal justice system and avoid improper convictions.
GDB Firm Blog
JANUARY 31, 2018
Recently, the New York Court of Appeals recognized the consensus of cognitive and social psychologists that the likelihood of making a mistaken identification is significantly higher when the witness is identifying someone of another race. This is of crucial consequence in the criminal context since mistaken eyewitness identifications are the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions in the country, responsible for more wrongful convictions than all other causes combined.
GDB Firm Blog
JANUARY 10, 2018
Can a subcontractor be liable for damages resulting from a pipe break 10 years after it last performed work at the project? Not if its relationship to the plaintiff is the "functional equivalent of privity" and the plaintiff is "not a stranger to the contract.
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