Intellectual Property Law

Virtual Rights Protection
There are virtual lawyers, virtual commerce, virtual brands.  So logically someone has finally opened what purports to be the Second Life Patent and Trademark Office saying: “We allow you to register, protect, and add value to your Second Life creations to protect your intellectual property rights...

California Bar Allows CLE For Virtual Program on Second Life
It happened here first! According to Legal Pad, Second Life (the virtual reality world) is now hosting a four-part speaker series -- sponsored by the Second Life Bar Association, of course! The first session about copyright and trademark infringement had...

Virtual Trademarksmadisonian.net
In the past year, there have been some interesting developments in trademark law and virtual worlds, including the Eros lawsuits in Second Life and increased attention from legal practitioners (e...

Legal Intervention in Virtual Worlds (Blog Debate: Levmore on Kerr)
My reaction to Orin's interesting piece on keeping criminal law out of the virtual world(s) is largely pragmatic and positivist. Any area of activity that generates outcries (as will Second Life and other planets in the virtual world when they...

Virtual world is real
Is the Virtual World real? It apparently has more “life” than I knew. Even the IRS is involved, recently ruling that independent, virtual contractors were, in reality, part-time employees for whom taxes needed to be withheld...

The Case for the Virtual, Free of Law, World of the Playman Islands (Blog Debate: LIV)
I'm a bit disappointed in Orin's examples and responses, because I was hoping someone would argue that we ought to work hard to use the virtual world, which is to say carefully a demarcated part of the real world, as...

Child Support Survival Guide
The Child Support Enforcement System

Adidas Imitators
Payless Shoesource to pay $304.6 million settlement in trademark lawsuit.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement
alleging government agencies and officials violated immigrant workers' constitutional rights.

PhotoCop Tickets
Minneapolis to pay $2.6 million settlement in traffic enforcement lawsuit.

Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Division of Immigration Health Services
allegedly drugged deported immigrants with sedatives.