Category Archives: Courses

See me speak next Friday at Hispanicize 2015

I’ll be speaking next Friday, March 20 in Miami at Hispanicize Week 2015. It looks to be a great event. My panel’s topic is Protect Your Work! A Legal Primer on Copyright Law for Digital Content Creators. The panel will be moderated by my friend Teresita Chavez Pedrosa, formerly with St. Thomas Law. The panelists will be: Jessie Abad of Estefan Enterprises Jason […]

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Elements of a cease-and-desist letter a/k/a how NOT to be an IP gorilla

Here’s a listing of the elements of a cease-and-desist (C&D) letter. It’s derived from a page that was once on the Chilling Effects website but the listing appears to be gone. See Maya Alexandri, What to Expect When You’re Expecting to Be Sued for Trademark Infringement, CHILLING EFFECTS. In any case, the page from Chilling Effects was geared towards […]

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Erie & REA Problems: Questions

Instructions For the following questions, assume that the State of Springfield is the 51st State of the United States.  Springfield is like many states, with a bicameral legislature that enacts statutes, and a tripartite judicial system, with a trial court (Springfield Court of Common Pleas), intermediate appellate court (Springfield Court of Appeals), and supreme court […]

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Erie & REA Problems: Explanations

Instructions For the following questions, assume that the State of Springfield is the 51st State of the United States.  Springfield is like many states, with a bicameral legislature that enacts statutes, and a tripartite judicial system, with a trial court (Springfield Court of Common Pleas), intermediate appellate court (Springfield Court of Appeals), and supreme court […]

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