Articles by Ashley Kobi
Ashley Kobi is a 2012 J.D. candidate at American University’s Washington College of Law, where she serves as a Blog Editor on the IP Brief. She is also an Articles Editor on the American University Business Law Review, a student attorney in the civil division of D.C. Law Students in Court, and a student editor for the ABA’s Annual Review of Intellectual Property Law Developments 2011. Ashley completed her undergraduate degree at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she studied international area studies, pre-med, and dance. Prior to starting law school, Ashley worked at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius as a litigation paralegal. During law school she has worked on pharmaceutical policy issues as a dean’s fellow at the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property and on chemical and biological weapons proliferation prevention at the Partnership for Global Security.
On June 7, 2011, the Najjar Employment Law Group (NELG) filed a declaratory judgment action in Massachusetts federal court after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from The Employment Law Group (TELG), a Washington, D.C. based whistleblower law firm. The complaint requested that the court declare NELG has not infringed any of TELG’s valid trademarks and that TELG’s trademark registrations are invalid.
On February 23, the day before the launch of Motorola’s new Xoom tablet, the company was sued by Xoom Corporation for trademark infringement, false designation of origin, unfair competition, false advertising and unfair business practices.
On March 30, U.S. Senator Herb Kohl (D.-WI) introduced the “Economic Espionage Penalty Enhancement Act of 2011.” The bill seeks to increase the maximum penalty for stealing trade secrets or other proprietary information for the benefit of any foreign government, instrumentality, or agent from 15 years to 20 years.
Hot on the heels of its settlement with a number of music publishers, LimeWire scored a victory in federal court in a related copyright infringement case filed by a number of record companies.
The case is …
Earlier this week, LimeWire and its C.E.O./Founder Mark Gorton, settled a copyright infringement case with over thirty music publishers, including units of EMI Group, Sony Corp., and Vivendi SA. (The case is EMI April Music …
Late last month, Capcom sent a number of copyright infringement violation notices to YouTube, prompting the removal of a number of videos featuring Evil Ryu and Oni Akumfa, two new “secret” characters in Super Street …
Following in the footsteps of other reality stars like The Jersey Shore’s Snooki, Sarah and Bristol Palin have filed applications to register “Sarah Palin” and “Bristol Palin” as trademarks with the United States Patent and …
Last week, the bipartisan Patent Reform Act of 2011 was introduced by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). The bill is cosponsored by Senators Amy …
This past week, U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly heard arguments debating the constitutionality of recent amendments to a Washington state law that grants deceased celebrities’ estates expansive right of publicity protections.
The case, Experience Hendrix v. …
Some bloggers had posited that Fox News’s lawsuit against former Senate candidate Robin Carnahan was merely a ploy to distract a Democratic candidate and her campaigners during a close and hard fought election campaign. They …
