Ever since he rode down that Trump Tower gold escalator in June of 2015 to launch his campaign for president, the name Donald J. Trump has inspired either adoration or abomination. But for we intellectual property lawyers, whether we admire or loathe the man, we…
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It started as an ordinary traffic stop—waiting for the light to turn green, thoughts drifting aimlessly, idling behind a Honda Civic, but then I noticed the bumper sticker on that car: Did I laugh? No. Did I smile? No. Was I outraged? No. Was I…
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In the classic movie Back to the Future, Doc Brown feeds garbage into the DeLorean’s “Mr. Fusion,” an on-board fusion reactor capable of converting leftovers and food waste into clean, green, energy for that quintessential time travelling machine. Doc Brown later predicts that by 1985,…
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Many view my fellow copyright lawyers as the Glamor Guys and Gals of the legal profession—at least compared to, say, business lawyers, who the public misperceives as wretched scriveners hunched over their desks grinding out “whereas” clauses for lengthy contracts filled with hereinafters, heretofores, and…
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Well, guess what, Winnie? As of January 1, 2022, A.A. Milne’s beloved tale of the fictional teddy bear and his pals has entered the public domain and can now be shared with anybody. For free! Along with dozens of other books (including Ernest Hemingway’s…
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We who toil in the field of intellectual property have our own NSFW collection of cases that we file in the folder labeled Stuff You Can’t Make Up. For example, did you know that the esteemed Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals had to grapple with…
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In 2016, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (“TIGTA”) recommended that the IRS “revise third-party information reporting documents to identify the amounts of virtual currency used in taxable transactions,” as a partial solution to TIGTA’s concern that too much virtual currency activity goes unreported…
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