by Michael D. Steger | Jul 15, 2018 | Copyrights, Featured, Trademarks
A new client recently engaged our firm to handle an increasingly common problem: someone had registered a domain name that was almost identical to the client’s own website. The only difference between the client’s domain and the fake site was an...
by Michael D. Steger | Jun 14, 2018 | Entertainment Law, Featured
On Sunday, Rafael Nadal won his record-extending eleventh French Open tennis championship, and his 17th Grand Slam title overall. To put this in some perspective, Roger Federer, Nadal’s greatest rival, has the second-most title at a single Grand Slam tournament...
by Michael D. Steger | Jun 3, 2018 | Featured, Trademarks, Uncategorized
Unlike copyrights or patents, trademarks operate under a country-by-country legal regime. The legal force of a registered trademark evaporates when crossing a border to a nation where it is not registered. Without a registration in a country, a foreign trademark...
by Michael D. Steger | May 15, 2018 | Featured, Trademarks
As a trademark attorney, my clients often contact me about some solicitation that the client received in the mail, suggesting that they pay a hefty sum to have their trademark registered on some for-profit trademark list. These entities have lofty sounding names like...
by Michael D. Steger | Mar 27, 2018 | Copyrights, Featured
Michael Steger appears with Joe Naylor, the CEO of ImageRights International, to discuss copyright issues in photography, on Season 5 of the RGG EDU Podcast: RGG EDU Podcast Season 5 During this podcast Mr. Naylor and Mr. Steger discuss the requirements for...