We have been informed that beginning on Saturday, June 13, 2009, the social networking site Facebook, Inc. will begin allowing users to create personalized URLs for their Facebook pages that incorporate the user’s username, e.g., facebook.com/USERNAME. Facebook has created a form that owners of registered trademarks can use to "reserve" their trademarks on Facebook and […]
Jim Butler’s blog article, “Hospitality Lawyer Insights from MTM: #15 Challenges and Opportunities,” appeared in ehotelier.com. This article originally appeared on JMBM’s Hotel Law Blog: Hospitality Lawyer Insights from MTM: #15 Challenges and Opportunities
Jim Butler’s blog article, “Hospitality Lawyer at the 2009 NYU hotel conference — Sound bites”, appeared in ehotelier.com. This article originally appeared on JMBM’s Hotel Law Blog: Hospitality Lawyer at the 2009 NYU hotel conference — Sound bites
Jim Butler’s blog article, “Hospitality Lawyer Insights from MTM: #14 Brands,” appeared in ehotelier.com. This article originally appeared on JMBM’s Hotel Law Blog:Hospitality Lawyer Insights from MTM: #14 Brands
Jim Butler’s blog article, "Hospitality Lawyer at the 2009 NYU hotel conference — Sound bites", appeared in Hotel Online and ehotelier.com. This article originally appeared on JMBM’s Hotel Law Blog: Hospitality Lawyer at the 2009 NYU hotel conference — Sound bites
Jim Butler’s blog article, "Hospitality Lawyer from the NYU Hotel Investment Conference", appeared in Hospitality Net, 4Hoteliers.com and ehotelier.com.
Jim Butler’s blog article, “Hospitality Lawyer Insights from MTM: #13. REITs and other institutional investors”, appeared in ehotelier.com. This article originally appeared on JMBM’s Hotel Law Blog: Hospitality Lawyer Insights from MTM: #13. REITs and other institutional investors.
Jim Butler’s blog article, "Terminating hotel management agreements when things don’t work? Not easy, but not impossible either", appeared in Hotel Online Hospitality Net and 4Hoteliers.com.
Jessica Bromall Sparkman and Rod Berman’s article entitled, “Fraud in the Trademark Office and Fraud in the Patent Office: Different Standards but Both on Appeal”, was published in the June 2009 issue of Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal.
On June 12, 2009, the California Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Munson v. Del Taco, Inc. (S162818) that plaintiffs need not prove intentional discrimination to recover $4,000 minimum statutory damages per occurrence under California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act (the “Unruh Act”). This outcome is likely to lead to more lawsuits filed under the Americans with […]