Enrico Schaefer Law Blog

As an internet lawyer who closely follows court decisions related to internet law issues, I was pleasantly surprised to see this decision in Newport News Holdings Corporation v. Virtual City Vision Incorporated VCV  come down form the Fourth Circuit affirming the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of plaintiff on claims of bad faith cybersquatting under the ACPA. ... Read More

Enrico Schaefer is an internet attorney focused on internet law issues.  Obviously, there are many factors which must be accounted for in your policy.  A qualified internet attorney can help you find the right balance, and empower your employees to enhance your brand, trademarks and reputation.... Read More

Trademark registration seems like such a simple item.  There is a trademark application form.  You fill it out.  You submit it to the USPTO.  You pay the filing fee.  Easy, right?... Read More

Trademark registration has always been important for companies trying to protect their brands, logos and names.   But the advent of the internet has dramatically increased the importance of obtaining registration for your key brands.  Consider the following changes which the internet has brought to business and commerce, and especially the concept of brand, logo and name protection:... Read More

There are several steps every trademark registration attorney needs to go through as part of a trademark registration process. Missing any of these steps could not only jeopardize your chances of achieving registration but could result in a trademark infringement threat letter against your client.... Read More

Every internet lawyer knows that the first and often most difficult question in representing a litigaiton client is where to file suit.  Just because a defendnat has a web site which shows up in your home state does not mean that you will be able to obtain personal jurisdiction over that defendant in your home state. Whether establishing  Limited or Specific Personal Jurisdiction under t... Read More

ICANN's proposal to allow nearly unlimited new gTLDs has every internet lawyer working to understand the trademark implications for their clients.  The International Trademark Association.... Read More

Every Internet Lawyer  knows that there is a growing epidemic of internet defamation of character driven by blogs, Bulletin Boards, review sites and other on-line content tools. here are complex issues in these cases which typically don't occur in other off-line media such as the permanency of that libelous content, identifying the author of the defamatory statements and the open comments whihc often inflame the initial defam... Read More

Our Internet lawyers are often as challenged by the intersection of law and the web. One area of law which often arises early litigation cases involves personal jurisdiction. These are always fact specific issues.  While simply maintaining a web site with visitors in the forum state is typically not enough, in and of itself, to establish personal jurisdiction, there are often con... Read More

What is an Internet Lawyer an what does an Internet lawyer do? Internet law is a combination of the application of traditional legal issues on the internet (On-line contracts, Terms of Use, User Generated Content, Personal Jurisdiction) and new statutes which were passed specifically to deal with internet issues (such as the UDRP and ACPA).  Often times,... Read More