1. Donald L. Prunty
http://www.gtlaw.com/
2. Susan M. Pitz
http://www.nutilepitz.com/
3. Ira W. David
http://www.morishitalawfirm.com/
4. Tiffany Swanis
http://www.jonesvargas.com/
5. Neil J. Beller
http://www.neiljbeller.com/Firm%20Info/Lawyers/1066956.aspx
6. Victor Hairapetian
http://www.facebook.com/people/Victor-Hairapetian/1084736615#!/profile.php?id=1084736615
7. Ikenna K. Odunze
http://www.manta.com/c/mth51lw/ikenna-k-odunze-attorney
8. John Lund Krieger
http://www.lrlaw.com/professionals/xprProfessionalDetailsLR.aspx?xpST=ProfessionalDetail&professional=197
9. Steven Pacitti
http://www.colo-lawyers.com/bio/StevenPacitti.asp
10. Gregory R. Gemignani
http://www.lionelsawyer.com/index.cfm?page_id=5&page=attorney_profile&atid=22
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Week 7 EoC: Intellectual Property Questions
1. How do I best protect myself from someone else stealing my artwork/design?
2. What’s the first step to take if someone does steal my design?
3. Do you recommend I personally contact a company that I suspect has stolen my idea?
4. How different (percentage wise) does my design have to be than a similar one?
5. What common issues do designers usually overlook in protecting themselves?
6. Do you recommend a lawyer review my contracts before signatures are put on them by the parties involved?
7. Where do you recommend a designer look for a contract template?
8. Is it better to use a template or have a lawyer draft an original contract for my design?
9. If I die and have a patent pending, does it become public domain?
10. When is it necessary to trademark intellectual property?
2. What’s the first step to take if someone does steal my design?
3. Do you recommend I personally contact a company that I suspect has stolen my idea?
4. How different (percentage wise) does my design have to be than a similar one?
5. What common issues do designers usually overlook in protecting themselves?
6. Do you recommend a lawyer review my contracts before signatures are put on them by the parties involved?
7. Where do you recommend a designer look for a contract template?
8. Is it better to use a template or have a lawyer draft an original contract for my design?
9. If I die and have a patent pending, does it become public domain?
10. When is it necessary to trademark intellectual property?
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Week 6 EoC: Illicit
It’s very difficult for a country like ours, the USA to deal with criminal activities within our borders alone, and this is considering we are a first world nation. When you start thinking about the difficulty that governments have in second or third world nations, you can imagine just how difficult fighting this all really is. Now add the fact taht in our modern times how small the world has become through the internet, you can now imagine how difficult the act of controlling criminal acts like counterfeiting and illicit has become. Controlling your own borders is one thing, but considering how interconnected criminal organizations have become, I really think it’s become just about a losing war.
Truth is, nations will probably never get a hold on every crime ever committed, but what we have here is a free for all where criminals majority of the time are getting away with, and that’s what’s really important. Not only are criminals winning, they’re dominating.
Now when it comes to my personal opinion about all this, well, I have the same issue most governments have to deal with. We won’t exceed the borders of their own country. Honestly, I’m no government or international official whose job it is to deal with this growing issue. So another words, as long as it has no direct effect to my life and the people I know, I really don’t care.
To be honest, I have a bit of contempt for capitalism, and I care less if multimillion dollar organizations and companies around the world are getting ripped off because of this issue. I care about the fake pharmaceuticals because in a cases like those people’s lives are endangered over bogus medications. But either than that and cases similar, I really don’t care to be frank. Now you can hold be contempt for my rash opinions and my favoring to stay ignorant. But the fact is the world is a very ugly place, and it’s only in fat countries like ours where you have people sitting on top wondering why the rest of the world cries for bread when they could be eating cake.
Truth is, nations will probably never get a hold on every crime ever committed, but what we have here is a free for all where criminals majority of the time are getting away with, and that’s what’s really important. Not only are criminals winning, they’re dominating.
Now when it comes to my personal opinion about all this, well, I have the same issue most governments have to deal with. We won’t exceed the borders of their own country. Honestly, I’m no government or international official whose job it is to deal with this growing issue. So another words, as long as it has no direct effect to my life and the people I know, I really don’t care.
To be honest, I have a bit of contempt for capitalism, and I care less if multimillion dollar organizations and companies around the world are getting ripped off because of this issue. I care about the fake pharmaceuticals because in a cases like those people’s lives are endangered over bogus medications. But either than that and cases similar, I really don’t care to be frank. Now you can hold be contempt for my rash opinions and my favoring to stay ignorant. But the fact is the world is a very ugly place, and it’s only in fat countries like ours where you have people sitting on top wondering why the rest of the world cries for bread when they could be eating cake.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Week 5 EoC: Lawyers looking for Fame
As with every generation, what can be expected by ethics and common practices might as well go out the window. As with then generations in the past 30 years, the so and so called “Me” generation, the questions has been asked if people as a whole are getting greedier, selfish, and more self centered than they use to be. With the generation that is now graduated from the colleges and heading out into the work force, the term “Trophy Kids” has been coined to refer to them.
"They really do seem to want everything, and I can't decide if it's an inability or an unwillingness to make trade-offs," (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455219391652725.html) was said by Derrick Bolton, an assistant dean at Stanford University. As for the case of the fame seeking lawyers, this obviously also applies to them.
As for the case of Fernandez-Vargaz v. Gonzales, the damage that could have been done to nationwide immigration laws because of one of these so called fame seeking lawyers could have been immeasurable.
“Noncitizens with even more compelling cases are still living with the consequences of the Fernandez-Vargas decision,” (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/us/10lawyers.html?pagewanted=3) said Trina Realmuto of the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild.
To be honest, I find this to be a major problem, with today’s generation of thrill seekers more and more people are finding themselves stepping out of place of their skills and experience, and obviously taking very little consideration of what they are doing and what the consequences might end up being outside their own lives.
“College kids today are about 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts of 20 or 30 years ago, as measured by standard tests of this personality trait.” (http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/the-culture-of-narcissism/) said Sara Konrath, a researcher at the U-M Institute for Social Research. The fact is, with little sympathy, and hardly any empathy, there cannot be an ethical understanding on behalf of today’s lawyers. Without those ingredients, people today can expect to rely more on themselves and less on the aid of others. I mean lawyers have always just about had the stereotype of being blood sucking vampires, now they’re just going to be upgraded to the next level. Whatever that is, really doesn’t seem all that promising to me. Actually, it’s quite the opposite.
"They really do seem to want everything, and I can't decide if it's an inability or an unwillingness to make trade-offs," (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455219391652725.html) was said by Derrick Bolton, an assistant dean at Stanford University. As for the case of the fame seeking lawyers, this obviously also applies to them.
As for the case of Fernandez-Vargaz v. Gonzales, the damage that could have been done to nationwide immigration laws because of one of these so called fame seeking lawyers could have been immeasurable.
“Noncitizens with even more compelling cases are still living with the consequences of the Fernandez-Vargas decision,” (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/us/10lawyers.html?pagewanted=3) said Trina Realmuto of the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild.
To be honest, I find this to be a major problem, with today’s generation of thrill seekers more and more people are finding themselves stepping out of place of their skills and experience, and obviously taking very little consideration of what they are doing and what the consequences might end up being outside their own lives.
“College kids today are about 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts of 20 or 30 years ago, as measured by standard tests of this personality trait.” (http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/the-culture-of-narcissism/) said Sara Konrath, a researcher at the U-M Institute for Social Research. The fact is, with little sympathy, and hardly any empathy, there cannot be an ethical understanding on behalf of today’s lawyers. Without those ingredients, people today can expect to rely more on themselves and less on the aid of others. I mean lawyers have always just about had the stereotype of being blood sucking vampires, now they’re just going to be upgraded to the next level. Whatever that is, really doesn’t seem all that promising to me. Actually, it’s quite the opposite.
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