Recent News
Financier Worldwide magazine publishes Tara Aaron’s article on the U.S. Trademark Audit Program
Financier Worldwide compiled a Special Report on IP for its January 2019 issue, with articles from practitioners around the world on the topics of the day in copyright, trademark and patent law. Tara Aaron was pleased to be invited to contribute an article on the U.S....
Rick Speaks at the 62nd John Marshall IP Conference
Rick spoke at the 62nd Annual IP Conference at John Marshall Law School, in Chicago, on November 2. He was part of a panel discussing recent developments about copyright law. He was asked to speak particularly about the two recent 9th Circuit decisions involving the...
Tara Aaron will attend the INTA Leadership Meeting in New Orleans
Tara Aaron will be attending the International Trademark Association Leadership Meeting, as a member of the committee that prepares and publishes The Trademark Reporter (TMR). Recently, The Washington and Lee School of Law’s Law Journal Rankings Project (the only one...
Paul McAdoo Files Amicus Brief in Tennessee Supreme Court
Last week the Tennessee Supreme Court accepted an amicus brief Paul McAdoo filed on behalf of 14 national media organizations in the Burke v. Sparta Newspapers case. Sparta Newspapers is seeking review by the Tennessee Supreme Court of the Court of Appeals decision...
The Best Lawyers in America® names Rick Sanders and Tara Aaron for 2019 edition
Aaron | Sanders is pleased to announce that Tara Aaron and Rick Sanders have once again been named "Best Lawyers" by Best Lawyers®. 2019 will produce the 25th edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, and Aaron | Sanders is proud to have two of its attorneys named in...
Tara Aaron Has Earned the Title of Certified Information Privacy Professional
Tara has earned the ANSI-accredited Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) credential through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Tara has seen firsthand the explosion in interest and concern around privacy and...
Paul Files Amicus Brief on Behalf of Media Coalition in the Tennessee Supreme Court
Last week, Paul filed an amicus brief in the Funk v. Scripps defamation lawsuit on behalf of thirteen national media entities and a national public interest group in the Tennessee Supreme Court. The brief challenges a limitation on the fair report privilege that...
Meet the Bloggers at INTA 2018! (But sadly, not Rick)
You are more than likely reading this post on the plane or in the airport on your way to Seattle. (For the International Trademark Association Annual Meeting, for our seven or so readers who don't attend). But if you're headed there, make sure this one's on your...
Tara is quoted in The Verge’s latest article on blockchain legislation
The Verge has been skeptical about the public understanding of blockchain, and this article is no exception. On March 22nd, Tennessee governor Bill Haslam signed into law Senate Bill 1662, to "recognize the legal authority of blockchain technology and smart contracts...
Paul Serves on Faculty of ABA Media Advocacy Workshop
Paul has long been involved with the media law community nationally, including through his work with the ABA Forum on Communications Law. For several years, Paul served on the Forum’s Training and Development Committee, including as one of its co-chairs. The...
Rick talks with Communications Daily about the 4th Circuit Cox Decision
Those who follow our blog know that Rick has long been thinking and writing about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the reaches of liability for hosting companies and ISPS for infringing material posted by users, and what it is really supposed to mean to have a...
Tara Aaron will be participating in a webinar on Drafting Clickwrap and Browsewrap Agreements on October 17th
Hello all - I will be participating in a ClearLaw Institute webinar at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, October 17th, 2017. The webinar is entitled "Drafting Clickwrap and Browsewrap Agreements: Enforceability Pitfalls." If you are interested in attending,...