Trademark Law CLE Course Catalog

In today's rapidly evolving legal landscape, the successful implementation of digital transformation projects is contingent upon establishing robust relationships within and beyond your organization. This session will delve into the significance of fostering collaborative and communicative bonds to drive digital transformation initiatives forward. Whether you work on an in-house legal team or at a firm, you will gain valuable insights into relationships' pivotal role in leveraging technology to enhance legal services, streamline processes, and remain competitive in the digital era.

Law firm success hinges on the ability to drive consistent revenue and new revenue opportunities. the most successful firms are justifying tech investment, evaluating new business intelligence, marketing, and RFP tools to make revenue generation as efficient and effective as possible.

Domestically and internationally, the corpus of legal information required by lawyers is always growing. While navigation, search, and e-discovery have advanced massively, allowing for masses of data to be searched in minutes, are these steps now becoming obsolete — with contextually aware artificial intelligence systems parsing legal information? This talk explores the use of intelligent technologies to transform the tasks from research to answers.

This session also covers how to assess the potential risks and benefits, prioritize the best use cases to optimize value for your firm and how to develop an AI-driven innovation plan that aligns with your firm's strategic plan and data strategy. We will also hear from 2 vendors on best practices for partnering with them and others.

Are we alone in the universe? While he doesn’t answer this question, in the latest installment of “The Curious Lawyer” series, Peter Afrasiabi reviews the scope of FOIA and FOIA litigation over government documents relating to UFO sightings as well as the law that governs fascinating issues such as ownership of the moon, comets and other extraterrestrial objects.

As business continues to evolve into a more globalized workforce, GCs are being tasked with setting up international offices, aligning resources and coverage, and deciding where to build out legal teams. Understanding cross borders Communications and cultural differences have become business essential, not just to get deals done, but also to maintain strong cross-border partnerships. Join our panelists as they discuss the role of legal in international relations, and share their expertise and lived experiences with all international business dealings.

Conversations around generative artificial intelligence are dominating the social stratosphere. By simulating human cognitive thinking, generative AI can produce new types of text, imagery, audio, and synthetic data by using patterns and informational elements obtained from prior works. Because generative AI often relies on pools of data and third-party creations to create new content, there is a concern that generative AI may, whether intentionally or inadvertently, exploit copyright-protected content to develop purportedly original content. Organizations that leverage generative AI tools should be mindful of how the tools are used in a commercial context to mitigate the risk of infringing uses. Likewise, owners of intellectual property should be aware of how their works are used by generative AI models and the users of these tools, and timely action should be taken to defend intellectual property against infringement.

When is a trademark famous enough to receive heightened protection under federal law, including protection from being diluted by other similar marks? Peter Afrasiabi discusses the key contours of trademark law and trademark dilution claims in the context of litigation over famous marks including Jack Daniels, Porsche, Victoria’s Secret, Sony, Spotify and Pinterest.

In this fun and timely program, Peter Afrasiabi examines the colorful history of politicians using popular songs at campaign events and the legal disputes with musicians who opposed their works being used in this way. From such famous examples as President Reagan using Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” and former President Trump using Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World,” this program delivers a tour-de-force analysis of copyright, trademark and right of publicity law applied to musical compositions used to sell political campaigns.