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.
In a recent petition for certiorari (Lawrence Golan, et al. v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., et al., No. 10-545), a group of orchestra conductors, educators, performers, publishers, film archivists and motion picture distributors urged the …
On November 12, Brownmark Films filed a copyright infringement suit in U.S. District Court in Wisconsin, against Viacom, Comedy Central, and the producers of South Park for alleged infringement of the music video for the …
On November 1, Power Balance, a purported specialist in “hologram performance technology,” sued Microsoft in the Central District of California under both state and federal law claims including unfair competition, trade dress infringement, false designation …
Late last month the California State University Chancellor’s Office sent Ryan Stevens a cease and desist letter. The letter arrived just a few weeks after the launch of NoteUtopia.com. The site, which was first conceived …
On Monday the Supreme Court denied certiorari in University of South Carolina v. University of Southern California without comment (Case 09-1270). This lets stand the Federal Circuit’s January 19, 2010 decision affirming the Trademark Trial …
On September 15, 2010 Fox News and Chris Wallace filed a suit against Democratic Senate Candidate Robin Carnahan in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, requesting an injunction against further …
Chanel took out a full back page advertisement in Women’s Wear Daily last week to dissuade further “misuse” of the Chanel name. Women’s Wear Daily, a trade journal for the fashion industry, has been referred …
The Belgian government assumed its six-month EU presidency in July. In late June 2010, Vincent Van Quickenborne, Enterprise and Simplification Minister told members of European Parliament that the development of a European Patent would be …
On July 20, 2010 InNova Patent Licensing LLC filed a patent infringement lawsuit against 36 corporate defendants in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The suit names a “who’s who” of …
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently launched an official page on Facebook, which can be found at www.facebook.com/uspto.gov. David Kappos, the USPTO’s director, stated that he is “confident [the USPTO’s] Facebook presence …
