Greenspoon Marder LLP

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

By: Sharon Urias, Esq. Coach, the luxury handbag manufacturer, began Operation Turnlock in 2009, an anti-counterfeiting campaign. Since the inception of Operation Turnlock, Coach has had success and received monetary awards against the knock-off artists who have been selling counterfeit Coach handbags. Just in July of this year, a mother and daughter team of counterfeiters were hit with a $44 million judgment, and their operation was shut down by a Manhattan judge for trademark infringement.

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Copycense

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Colleges and universities, however, have a major trump card to play to reduce the costs of higher education: they can reverse their longstanding custom against claiming work made for hire status. Instead, they could claim copyright ownership in scholarship as a way to avoid the scholarly publications crisis, and at once, justify this policy change as a way to cut the costs of education.

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Greenspoon Marder LLP

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

By: Sharon Urias, Esq. On November 27, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized 132 counterfeit websites in its ‘Cyber Monday’ crackdown. Sites that were seized included those that sold clothing, jewelry, sporting goods, DVD’s, music, software and luxury goods. The Examiner reports this is the third year that ICE and European countries have worked together on ‘Cyber Monday’ to shut down websites that sell counterfeit goods to consumers.

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Greenspoon Marder LLP

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

By: Sharon Urias, Esq. There has been a trademark battle raging for more than a year-and-a-half over the term “App Store.” When some consumers hear the term, they think of Apple’s iTunes section for apps; however, when others hear the term, they see it as a more generic term for application store. Apple filed a trademark lawsuit against Amazon over the “App Store” term claiming they have excusive rights to the term.

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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?

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