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Happy Thanksgiving
Marks Gray wishes you a wonderful holiday filled with good health, good food and good cheer! Thank you for your business and friendship throughout the year!
Tyler Perry, Kyrie Irving, and Snoop Dogg Help Widow in South Carolina Fight Property Developer
While a developer trying to muscle their way around property law might not seem like a heart-warming holiday tale, this month’s blog does have some kind of holiday-worth conclusion: the power of good-neighborliness and the internet’s expansion of our neighborhoods....
The Substantially Similar Videos that Brought Down to Two Storage Companies
If you like something that your competitor has created, should you ever tell your team to directly copy it? Based on the outcome of an infringement case involving two door-to-door storage companies, you could get into some real copyright trouble if your marketing...
Attorney Ed Birk attends Reporters’ Workshop as Moderator for Defamation Panel
Attorney Ed Birk attended the Florida Supreme Court’s Reporters’ Workshop in Tallahassee Sponsored by The Florida Bar Media & Communications Law Committee, spanning two days with diverse seminars on updates on the First Amendment, hot topics about Public...
Dick’s Sporting Goods Continues to Use Abandoned Trademark – At What Cost?
Between a larger company and a smaller company, if you were asked to predict who would be more careful about their trademark application – who would you pick? You might expect that a larger company would have greater access to legal resources, and would therefore have...
Marks Gray has been honored by Best Lawyers in the 14th annual edition of the Best Law Firms for 2024!
We're proud to announce that our dedication to excellence, commitment to our clients, and the outstanding work of our legal team have been recognized by this prestigious organization. This accomplishment reaffirms our mission to provide top-notch legal services to our...
Is a “Collection” One Work or Multiple Works? The Answer Matters for Infringement Cases
Let this be a lesson to anyone producing creative works who decides to deem them a “collection.” Examples of this might include: musicians releasing an album, writers compiling essays or short stories into a single book, and visual artists placing multiple works in a...
Can You Register a Trademark for the Translation of Your Book?
I will start this blog post with a simple trademark law fact: If you write a book, you are not allowed to register a trademark for the name of that book. Given that, perhaps you wonder how a person would arrive at the question: "But can I register a trademark for a...