Intellectual Property & Franchise Law Blogs

Tal Grinblat is a Certified Specialist in Franchise & Distribution Law, designated by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.

• IP Gets “Modernized” in Stimulus Bill
• The California Consumer Privacy Act: Implications for Business Websites
• U.S. Supreme Court Invalidates Scandalous Restrictions on Trademarks
• SCOTUS: No Copyright Registration, No Infringement Lawsuit
• Does This Selfie Make Me Look Like a Copyright Infringer?
• Supreme Court: Disparaging, Degrading, Derogatory Trademarks Now Enforceable
• Trademark Law & Genericide: Google’s Not Dead Yet
• Half Baked: The Brave New World of Branding Weed
• Music Publisher Caught in Birthday Suit
• Online Piracy: Ninth Circuit Cautions Copyright Holders re DMCA Takedown Notices
• Music Artists Take Charge: The Fair Play Fair Pay Act
• U.S. Supreme Court Pulls Plug on Aereo
• 2nd Down: Washington Redskins Franchise Loses Trademark Territory
• Copyrighted Images: Individual Works Registered in Group Are Protected
• The Government Shutdown & How It Affects Your Business
• Mmmm…Donuts: Slam Dunkin’ a Sweet Opportunity for Franchisees?
• Franchisors: Consider Business Opportunity Laws
• Five Tips for Developing & Protecting Your Trademarks
• Intellectual Property Law – The Madrid Protocol
  Promotes Global Trademark Protections
• Before You Buy a Franchise -Franchise
  Information for the Uninitiated
• When to Franchise Your Business –
  7 Questions to Ask
• Seeing Louboutin Red –
  The Battle for a Trademarked Sole
• Selected Developments in Franchise Law Business Law News Annual Review 2015, a Publication of the State Bar of California – by Tal Grinblat (coauthor), May 2015
• Finding Value: The Roles of Accountants in Franchising The Franchise Lawyer, a publication of the ABA Forum Committee on Franchising – by David Gurnick, Tal Grinblat (and Rex Poulsen and Peter Weir of Hutchinson Bloodgood, LLP); Spring 2014, Vol. 17 No. 2
• OPIP: When Is It Lawful to Use Other People’s
  Intellectual Property? Valley Lawyer, a Publication of the San Fernando Valley Bar Association – by Tal Grinblat and David Gurnick, October 2013
• Nine Ways to Avoid Copyright Termination (Parts 1 & 2) New Matter, Official Publication of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of California – by David Gurnick and Tal Grinblat, Summer, 2012
• Are Baseball Franchises Actually Franchises? The Los Angeles Daily Journal – by David Gurnick and Tal Grinblat, June 2011
• Avoiding the Franchise Surprise in IP Licensing Agreements American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law Newsletter – by David Gurnick and Tal Grinblat, Winter 2005
• Franchising Your Business
• CA Franchise & Distribution Lawyers
• Intellectual Property Attorneys Los Angeles
• Trademark, Technology and Copyright Lawyers