http://www.godfreadlaw.com Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:26:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The FCC has created a tool that allows people to quickly see how spectrum is allocated. You can use a map to find all the licensees in a particular county or state. All this is particularly interesting now as there is currently some interest in reallocating spectrum ... http://www.godfreadlaw.com/index.php/2010/fcc-launches-spectrum-dashboard Apple Loeses Battle for Control of the Letter I The offending trademark was DOPi which is iPod spelled backwards, but otherwise doesn't really sound like or look like Apple's IPOD trademark. Interesting to note that Apple wasn't the first or only user of the names "iPhone" or "iPad" either. ... http://www.godfreadlaw.com/index.php/2010/gimme-an-imark%c2%ae Pink Floyd recently won a case in the UK against its record company EMI over the rights to sell copies of Pink Floyd songs as individual digital downloads. The contract which was signed in 1999 limited EMI's ability to sell singles of the songs and Pink Floyd successfully argued ... http://www.godfreadlaw.com/index.php/2010/pink-floyd-wins-and-the-album-lives-another-day Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) are .com, .edu, .org and so forth. There have been proposals before ICANN for a few years now to allow new gTLDs to be just about anything people want, such as .godfread. There are of course trademark and other intellectual property concerns ... http://www.godfreadlaw.com/index.php/2010/dot-anything "Sunshine Week is a national initiative to open a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Participants include print, broadcast and online news media, civic groups, libraries, nonprofits, schools and others interested in the public's right to know." See more information at www.sunshineweek.org http://www.godfreadlaw.com/index.php/2010/sunshine-week-is-march-14-20 Minnesota has rules regarding starting a lawsuit that are a bit different than other states and may not be what you assume is normal. These rules have been given the quaint name of "pocket service." Pocket service is the process for beginning a civil case in Minnesota. ... http://www.godfreadlaw.com/index.php/2010/minnesotas-strange-start-to-lawsuits There's even a blog about it. I use Yelp! only occasionally but I do rely on reviews on Google and elsewhere. This can be a touchy subject for many small business owners as they can and do find customers through online reviews.I found my barber through those reviews ... http://www.godfreadlaw.com/index.php/2010/yelp-sued-in-class-action-over-extortion Jeff Pesek and I recently interviewed Justin Porter who works with the University of Minnesota Office of Technology Commercialization. The OTC harnesses some great innovation that comes out of the University and helps bring it to market by either licensing it, or finding the right people to help ... http://www.godfreadlaw.com/index.php/2010/techdotmn-podcast-with-justin-porter There are a number of sources of free legal documents and free or cheap legal document generators online. This is overall good news and should not in any way be a real threat to attorneys. But people often confuse a document for a solution to a legal problem. ... http://www.godfreadlaw.com/index.php/2010/dont-confuse-your-attorney-with-a-paper-dispenser I found this article by Chris Hartman amusing because the word "theft" is used so frequently outside of its literal legal definition. The article searches Google for instances when people write "_______ is theft" with the rankings shown below. Its a brilliant example of how people distort the truth by ... http://www.godfreadlaw.com/index.php/2010/what-is-theft