Defamation on Facebook and Twitter:  Defamation on Facebook and Twitter is becoming more and more common every single day because it's so easy to post a comment or an item onto your Facebook wall or onto your Twitter account. And because emotions run high sometimes, that spontaneous compulsion in you to say something really mean about someone else or to make something up about someone else can be v...

Welcome to Copyright Law Radio. We bring you the best in copyright news, legal advice and information.  From copyright infringement claims and defenses to threat letter issues, DMCA takedown notice letters, copyright licensing, and legal analysis of the latest copyright law cases, we have a copyright attorney who can answer your copyright questions. User-generated content is content that's uploaded ...

Too many companies and too many trademark lawyers simply send out trademark infringement cease and desist letters as a matter of course. They don't, as good attorneys or good companies, or good stewards of the trademark system, stop and think about who they're sending the letter to. Sometimes people aren't intentionally infringing your trademark at all, and sometimes there are legitimate reasons why ...

Defamation of character claims can be challenging, but here's what you need to know about what you have to prove in order to establish internet defamation or defamation of character on the web. In order to show that there is a defamation that has occurred, you have to prove that there was a false statement of fact about you or your business. Now, what is a false statement of fact? A false statement o...

What is a trade secret? A trade secret is anything within your business that is not generally known to the public, that's not readily ascertainable, and that give you, your company, or your business an economic advantage or other advantage over your competitors.  And so a trade secret definition typically incorporates these various concepts.  That, number one, it has to be this process, design, pat...

The first thing you need to understand when answering the question, "What can I do if someone steals my website content?" is you need to understand that these are copyright infringement issues that are governed by United States Copyright Law. If someone takes your website content and reposts it on their web pages, that can be for several reasons. What we see, as copyright law attorneys who see this k...

If you are a copyright owner, you can claim ownership of the copyright in a work. A copyright grants the owner the exclusive right to do any of the following; to reproduce the work, to distribute the work, to perform the work, or to display the copyright protected work. A copyright also grants the owner exclusive rights to create a new work that is based upon the original copyrighted work. (more&hel...

On Thursday, July 26, 2012, the USPTO announced publication in the Federal Register of proposed rules and proposed examination guidelines for the first-inventor-to-file provision of the AIA. The first-inventor-to-file provision converts the United States from a "first-to-invent" to a "first-inventor-to-file" system. How will this affect our clients, the inventors?  Primarily by making it more impor...