The state trend in regulating telephone and text message marketing continues. Maryland’s new telemarketing law, the “Stop the Spam Calls Act of 2023,” took effect on January 1, 2024. Like the federal Telephone Consumer...more
A case involving the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)’s refusal to register the trademark TRUMP TOO SMALL for tee shirts has made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices recently agreed to a USPTO request to...more
Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 against the Andy Warhol Foundation in a copyright dispute over a portrait of Prince that Warhol created using a photograph by another artist, Lynn Goldsmith.
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Were you aware that just over a year ago, effective July 1, 2021, Florida enacted an amendment to its telemarketing laws (Fla. Stat. § 501, et. seq.), with striking similarities to the federal Telephone Consumer Protection...more
On April 1, 2021, the United States Supreme Court issued a long-awaited landmark decision that finally resolves a deep split of authority in the Circuit Courts of Appeal regarding the definition of an "autodialer" under the...more
On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed the COVID-19 relief and government funding bill, which incorporated The Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 (“TMA”) and the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of...more
On December 8, 2020, the United States Supreme Court will hold oral arguments to finally resolve a deepening split of authority in the Circuit Courts of Appeal regarding the definition of an "autodialer" under the Telephone...more