Denial of Anti-Muslim Group’s Trademark Poses Free Speech Questions
Just a few weeks ago, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the second highest court in the land) ruled in In re Geller that the political organization “Stop! Islamization of America” may not trademark the title “Stop the Islamisation of America” because the mark violated the Lanham Act's (the federal trademark statute) Non-Disparagement Clause. The Non-Disparagement Clause, which prohibits registration of marks that besmirch a specific person or belief, is rarely used to prevent registration. This case, however, was the exception. In Re Geller: Background and Ruling “Stop! Islamisation of America,” an extreme political organization that adamantly Continue Reading
Outlier Magazine Interviews Daliah Saper about Key Legal Considerations When Doing Business Online
Outlier Magazine recently interviewed Saper Law Offices' Principal Attorney, Daliah Saper, about key legal considerations when doing business online. Among the topics covered during the interview include the day-to-day challenges of running your own business, trademarks, trade dress, startups, branding, copyrights, contests & sweepstakes, and how Daliah balances and/or intermingles business with pleasure. For the entire podcast interview, click on the link below:
MeetAdvisors.com Interviews Daliah Saper
On April 22, Vlad Moldavskiy of MeetAdvisors.com interviewed Daliah Saper about her firm, her practice area, and various internet-related intellectual property issues. To see the entire interview, click the link below: https://www.meetadvisors.com/post/meetadvisors-with-daliah-saper-founder-of-saper-law-offices
“Bang With Friends” Settlement Provides a Cautionary Trademark Tale for Eager Startups
This March, Daliah Saper attended Austin’s signature South by Southwest festival – the ever-popular and influential set of film, interactive, and music shows and conferences held annually in the blue-dotted Texas state capital. While this year celebrates the festival’s 27th year in business, it also marks the one-year anniversary of SXSW’s legal dispute with the app-maker formerly known as “Bang With Friends.” Just last year, the South by Southwest conference organizers slapped “Bang With Friends” with a cease-and-desist letter for the salacious startup’s unsanctioned use of the “SXSW” mark in its special “Bang With SXSW” edition. Unfortunately for Bang With Continue Reading
Daliah Talks IP with Blog Talk Radio Host Barry Moltz
On January 31, 2014 Business Insanity Talk Radio hosted by Barry Moltz interviewed Daliah Saper about social media, intellectual property, and online defamation. Daliah also fielded questions about cyber-squatting, domain names, contracts with website developers, employee social media policies, and key provisions in small business contracts. Listen to the full segment by clicking on the link below. (Daliah's segment begins at 25:25) https://www.blogtalkradio.com/smallbusinessunstuck/2014/01/31/258-anthony-smith-ramya-narayanan-mike-trabold-daliah-saper-jay-shek
Saper Law Attorneys Tackle Novel Domain Name Disputes
Daliah Saper will be a featured panelist at the Namescon.com conference next week to speak about the various legal issues related to domain names. In this article, we highlight an interesting domain name dispute that Saper Law attorneys recently successfully litigated. The takeaway for business owners and domain name owners is an important one. Read more below: Whose Domain Name Is It Anyway? Businesses large and small have come to think of their domain name (or names, since many businesses will snatch up dozens if not hundreds of addresses in order to cover their bases) as one of their most valuable Continue Reading
Daliah Saper to Speak at NamesCon Domain Name Conference
Saper Law is the latest sponsor of NamesCon 2014, the largest conference dedicated exclusively to domain names. NamesCon brings together companies, representatives, and individuals in the domain name industry, especially registries and registrars. Daliah Saper will be a featured speaker discussing new developments occurring in the internet domain name space. She will also relate Saper Law case examples involving domain name disputes. You can read about some of the upcoming domain name changes in our previous post about the ICANN conference. Saper Law is dedicated to staying on top of the latest rules, regulations and trends as they relate to domain names so contact Saper Law to learn Continue Reading
Domain Names, Trademarks & Cyber-grabs at ICANN Conference– Saper Law To Serve as Trademark Clearinghouse Agent
Always on the “cutting edge” of Internet and Intellectual Property Law, attorneys from Saper Law attended this year’s international ICANN conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ICANN (which stands for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is the international organization that is responsible for making rules surrounding internet domain names – for example, “www.saperlaw.com” is a domain name. ICANN created and promulgates the rules for the private domain registrar market (the companies who assign domain names for a fee). In addition, ICANN sets forth a uniform policy to resolve conflicts that arise over the ownership of disputed domain Continue Reading
RSVP for the 6th Annual Designer Roundtable at Saper Law
Continuing its tradition of supporting designers and entrepreneurs, Saper Law Offices will hold its Sixth Annual Designer Roudtable event on Thursday, December 19. Attendees are invited to bring their unique pieces, their pocketbooks, or just themselves, to “shop, sell, and share.” You can read about the first roundtable event here. The roundtable discussion format focuses on a variety of business issues, both legal and operational. Daliah Saper, Principal Attorney at Saper Law and a Chicago Fashion Foundation Board Member, will serve as the moderator and discussion leader for a number of key subjects, answering questions about: business incorporation, the hiring of Continue Reading
Saper Law Attorneys Discuss Fashion Law at Chicago-Kent
Chicago-Kent College of Law's Intellectual Property Law Society hosted Saper Law attorneys Shyla Jones and Aaron Midler for a discussion on Fashion and Law. Shyla and Aaron shared with Kent students the basics of protecting fashion with intellectual property law. Aaron began the presentation with an overview of the classic trademark case Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co.,where the Supreme Court of the United States determined that color per se is eligible for trademark protection if it is non-functional and serves as a source identifier. Shyla continued the discussion with a review and analysis of both the District Court and 2nd Circuit's competing interpretations of Qualitex and each Continue Reading
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