Detroit Legal News By Paul Janczewski If you see a tall, mustachioed man hovering over a road kill bird, don’t assume he’s just someone looking fo...

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It is not uncommon for intellectual property (IP) attorneys to have backgrounds in engineering and business. But advanced degrees in biochemistry, phy...

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When a used car brokerage mimicked Volvo images, layout and design to create its own site for customers in Slovakia, the long arm of trademark litigat...

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Brooks Kushman P.C. – a leading intellectual property (IP) and commercial law firm – has been ranked among the nation’s top IP law firms as selected b...

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The University of Michigan Department of Biomedical Engineering proudly salutes the achievements of its distinguished alumni. Please click here to rea...

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Brooks Kushman P.C.’s Mark A. Cantor, president, Ralph M. Burton, senior attorney, and Phyllis Golden Morey, shareholder, have been named to the “Top ...

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Brooks Kushman’s William Abbatt to speak at the MIT Enterprise Forum on “Protecting IP on a Shoe-string Budget” Monday, Nov. 30 at 5:30 p.m. at TechTo...

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In response to the continued growth of its trademark practice, Brooks Kushman law firm announced today that it has hired Leon E. Redman as a senior at...

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Six lawyers from Brooks Kushman P.C. have been named to the 2009 Super Lawyers list, more than any other Michigan firm in the intellectual property (I...

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Brooks Kushman P.C. today announced the launch of its newly designed Web site: http://www.brookskushman.com. The site features a library of IP, paten...

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 Michigan-based law firm steadily grows as cost-effective West Coast IP legal counsel

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Strut Magazine

Author: Joyce Wiswell

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Crain's Detroit Business

IP Law and Business

Brooks Kushman is listed among the top 10 IP firms in IP Law & Business magazine's annual Who Protects IP America survey of the Fortune 250 companies. The survey mentions Brooks Kushman five times in the annual review of IP counsel. Brooks Kushman ties for fourth in patent prosecution and ties for eleventh in top IP firms overall.

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IP Law Bulletin

Brooks Kushman launched a billboard campaign on routes between local airports and the Detroit Auto Show and Society of Automotive Engineers conference in Detroit. There are also similar print ads running in

Crain’s Detroit Business.

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IP Law & Business magazine lists Brooks Kushman as one of the top 10 IP firms according to the Fortune 250 in the Who Protects IP America survey. The survey mentions Brooks Kushman five times in the annual review of IP counsel.

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Digital World Magazine

There are an increasing number of international sites offering music downloads at low prices with few copyright restrictions. Sites based in Russia and Spain claim to be legitimate, but Tom Lewry warns that bargain hunters should beware, “My advice would be stay away from them because you run the risk of being sued.”

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Site Receives Both “Top 25” and “Nifty 50” Nods

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – Brooks Kushman, PC is pleased to announce that its Web site, www.brookskushman.com, has been recognized as one of the best amongst small/mid-sized U.S. firms in the annual Internet Marketing Attorney (IMA) ranking.

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Publication:IP Law & Business

Brooks Kushman's recent billboard marketing campaign appears in this national intellectual property publication.

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Publication:The Detroit Legal News

Brooks Kushman's recent billboard ad campaign was recognized in the Detroit Legal News. In the article, John Halan states "We wanted to build on the marketing campaign we developed for the auto show in a way that would stand out and get noticed." The billboards remained up through the end of January and it will be back up in time for the Society of Automotive Engineers conference in March.

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Publication:Crain's Detroit Business

In an article about the increase in intellectual property litigation in recent years, Ernie Brooks commented, “a pendulum swing in court rulings upholding patents that began in the mid-1960s helped propel interest and activity in intellectual- property litigation.”

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Publication:Bloomberg

This article notes that Novell Inc. will pay some clients if they are sued for copyright infringement to blunt the impact of threatened suits against Linux users. IBM and Intel pledged to contribute to a defense fund and Hewlett-Packard has agreed to indemnify its customers. Tom Lewry commented that, “The fund means there's money there to fight lawsuits, instead of giving clients money afterward as an indemnification program would”.

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Publication:Intellectual Property Litigation Reporter

A federal appellate court recently ruled that the RIAA cannot obtain the identities of file traders from their ISPs. Tom Lewry commented, "This is obviously going to put a huge monkey wrench" into the RIAA's plans to continue filing lawsuits against individual file traders. “However, the decision will not help the hundreds of individuals who have been sued by the RIAA over the past several months after the group obtained their identities from their ISPs. These cases are not like criminal cases in which information can be suppressed by a judge who finds that it was obtained illegally.”

Lewry represented four college students sued by RIAA for copyright infringement last year.

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Publication:Wired News

Tom Lewry is quoted in this article regarding the music industry’s plans to offer so-called “amnesty” to file traders who come forward and promise not download files in the future.

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Publication:America's Network

Tom Lewry is quoted in this article that discusses whether ISPs should be responsible for the billions of files that are downloaded each month from popular P2P networks.

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Publication:Telephony

Tom Lewry is quoted in this article from the June 16, 2003, issue of

Telephony

about the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) seemingly cautious pursuit of Internet music piracy.

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Publication:Managing Intellectual Property

Maria Angileri and her client Don Aiken, Ford Motor Co., are featured in this May 2003

Managing Intellectual Property

article exploring the different ways four major corporate trademark chiefs work with their external counterparts.

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Publication:DMCA Alert

Thomas Lewry was quoted in the April 2003 issue of the DMCA Alert regarding the difficulties new encrypted peer-to-peer software programs present to college IT managers responsible for enforcing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

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Publication:RadioandRecords.com

An article in the April 28, 2003

PM Update

on

RadioandRecords.com

quoted Tom Lewry about the decision by a Los Angeles federal judge that Grokster Ltd, StreamCast Networks Inc. and Kazaa BV are not liable for copyright infringement committed by users of their file-sharing software.

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