August, 2017

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Beware of Trademark Scams!

Greenspoon Marder LLP

By: Sharon Urias, Esq. You decide to start a new business. Congrats! You do all of the things you are supposed to do (the meticulous planning, research and set-up of your business entity and financial obligations) and, of course, you file one or more trademarks to protect your valuable business brand. Your application is accepted by the USPTO and you believe everything is in order.

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Enroll in Amazon’s Brand Registry 2.0… But Only if You Own a Registered Trademark

KMK Blog

If you sell private label products on Amazon, please listen up! Amazon recently released its Brand Registry 2.0. The new and improved Brand Registry is Amazon’s most recent attempt to combat brand violations on its online marketplace.

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Fiona Versus the Counterfeiters: What About Her Rights?

KMK Blog

As Fiona the hippo, at the Cincinnati Zoo, battled from being born six weeks premature to weighing 375 pounds with a healthy side of sass , she gathered a huge and fierce following. #TeamFiona has taken the world by storm.

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Video Games, Tattoos, and Copyrights – A Unique and Unsurprising Lawsuit

Greenspoon Marder LLP

By: Sharon Urias, Esq. Last year, Solid Oak Sketches LLC (“Solid Oak”) sued video game maker Take-Two Interactive (“Take-Two”) over the use of Solid Oak’s copyrighted tattoos on the bodies of various NBA players that appear in Take-Two’s popular “NBA 2K” video game franchise. Recently, Take-Two filed a motion for summary judgment in federal court asserting that the appearance of the tattoos in “NBA 2K” video games is protected by the fair use and de minimus use doctrines.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

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?