Recent News
Tara and Rick Featured in Legal Podcasts
Tara and Rick have each been recently been featured in a couple of well-known legal podcasts: Tara is featured in Ipse Dixit, a podcast covering legal scholarship and hosted by Brian L. Frye, a law professor at the University of Kentucky. Tara discussed privacy law...
Rick Quoted by Managing IP About “Stairway to Heaven” Case
Rick was quoted today in Managing IP's article Led Zeppelin Ruling Should Ease Burden on Copyright Defendants about the Ninth Circuit's en banc decision in Skidmore v. Led Zeppelin. It's paywalled (sorry), but a free trial is available. Among other things, the Ninth...
Tara Aaron presents “Data Privacy: New Challenges for the Pharma Industry and Their Brands” in Berlin
Tara Aaron presented to an international trademark audience at the recent Pharmaceutical Trademark Group conference in Berlin, Germany, on October 3, 2019. She gave a lecture to hundreds of trademark professionals and in-house pharmaceutical trademark attorneys from...
IP360 Publishes Rick’s Article About U.S. Design Law
IP360 commissioned Rick to write an article about U.S. design law, which is best described as an awkward patchwork, through the lens of Texas antitrust case, of all things. That case involves traffic barriers and the Texas' decision to require little V-cuts where the...
Aaron Sanders Law proudly sponsors Meet The Bloggers XV at INTA2019
Aaron Sanders Law was pleased to join our fellow bloggers at Kings Entertainment in Boston, Massachusetts during the INTA2019 conference this week, for the 15th Annual Meet the Bloggers Party. It was a lively night of bowling and pinball, raffles of F*CT t-shirts and...
GDPR and U.S. Companies – Tennessee CLE Webinar Now Available
Tara Aaron presented a webinar to the Tennessee Bar Association entitled "GDPR and U.S. Companies" on February 11, 2019. The webinar is now available for lawyers needing Tennessee CLE credits. If you are a Tennessee lawyer with clients who hold or use the personal...
Tara Aaron earns her CIPP certification for European privacy law
The world is certainly getting smaller and smaller, particularly for companies involved in international data transfers. Tara has been advising her e-commerce platform, cloud hosting and SAAS-provider clients since January 2018 about their obligations as processors...
Paul McAdoo to speak at First Amendment Center
On Thursday, January 10, 2019, Paul will be speaking at the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University on the state of the fair report privilege in Tennessee. The Society of Professional Journalists will be hosting the event, which is the first in a new...
Financier Worldwide magazine publishes Tara Aaron’s article on the U.S. Trademark Audit Program
Financier Worldwide compiled a Special Report on IP for its January 2019 issue, with articles from practitioners around the world on the topics of the day in copyright, trademark and patent law. Tara Aaron was pleased to be invited to contribute an article on the U.S....
Rick Speaks at the 62nd John Marshall IP Conference
Rick spoke at the 62nd Annual IP Conference at John Marshall Law School, in Chicago, on November 2. He was part of a panel discussing recent developments about copyright law. He was asked to speak particularly about the two recent 9th Circuit decisions involving the...
Tara Aaron will attend the INTA Leadership Meeting in New Orleans
Tara Aaron will be attending the International Trademark Association Leadership Meeting, as a member of the committee that prepares and publishes The Trademark Reporter (TMR). Recently, The Washington and Lee School of Law’s Law Journal Rankings Project (the only one...
Paul McAdoo Files Amicus Brief in Tennessee Supreme Court
Last week the Tennessee Supreme Court accepted an amicus brief Paul McAdoo filed on behalf of 14 national media organizations in the Burke v. Sparta Newspapers case. Sparta Newspapers is seeking review by the Tennessee Supreme Court of the Court of Appeals decision...
