A Bad NDA Can Be Worse Than None at All In business, one of the most routine legal documents you’re likely to run into is a non-disclosure agreement, better known as an “NDA.” They’re super handy because they let you disclose secret stuff to business partners and...
Ninth Circuit Clarifies that “Willfully” Means “Willfully” I think most people know that there is such a thing as criminal copyright infringement, i.e., copyright infringement so heinous that the U.S. government will take time from investigating drug deals to...
Oh, Those Pesky, Pesky Employees! From a legal* point of view, hardly anything good ever comes out of the employer-employee relationship**, when you think about it. Wrongful termination suits, reams of paperwork to create a “paper trail” to counter wrongful...
You bolted up in bed at 3 a.m. last night and grabbed the notepad on your dresser that you keep for just these kinds of occasions, do scribble down the absolutely genius, brilliant, one-of-a-kind, bet-the-company, ineffable NAME that just popped into your head for...
Our local Lipscomb University was recently required to stop using the abbreviation “LU” because Liberty University, owner of a registration in the same mark, complained. Rick talks about the law behind the dispute in an article appearing on The Washington...
The state of Texas is looking more and more like it’s forgotten that there’s a world outside of itself. Cue the weird article from Time this week that reads like it was written by Rick Perry himself, about how everyone’s moving there, buying hats and being...
