This week’s Bulletin bounces off of my good friend and IP legal genius, Ron Coleman’s blog, Likelihood of Confusion. Apparently, Flickr (a private company) took down the below mash up of President Obama as The (Heath Ledger) Joker with no legal inducement or requirement to do so. (It does not appear that any cease and [...]
Filed under: Legal Decisions | Tagged: copyright, DC Comics, flickr, ip, joker, obama, TIME | Leave a Comment »
We seem to be in a Top Ten list mode lately. From TIME Online: Top 10 real-life spy gadgets With the news that MI5 is looking for a Chief Scientific Adviser, spy novelist Jeremy Duns reveals his ten favourite real espionage inventions: 1. Poison-tipped umbrella Probably the most infamous real-life spy gadget is the umbrella [...]
Filed under: spies | Tagged: booby trap, bug, camera, dart, documents, exploding briefacse, germany, gun, m15, microphone, moscow, poison, spy, spy gadgets, telescope, us, weapons | 1 Comment »
The drilled into the ground response on how to avoid a shark attack is obvious, don’t go into his office or courtroom. That aside, as the summer continues and many of us are still vacationing, we bring you a few simple techniques that may be helpful to your survival in very dangerous situations: 1. Shark attack. Fight [...]
Filed under: Safety | Tagged: currents, quicksand, riptide, shark attack, snake bites, undertow | 2 Comments »
In a brilliant article by Eric Turkewitz, Esq. he describes the information now becoming available in public records of lawsuits; settled and active and the potential for lawsuits arising from this type of easily accessible private data. Our interest in the article is in the availability of the private information to client poachers. As society’s [...]
Filed under: Client Relations | Tagged: client, client poaching, ethical, finances, law firm, lawsuit, money manager, privacy, red flag, substitution | Leave a Comment »
