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21 Feb, 2008 11:32 am
... can see the design in the amended application. With this amendment, I'm inferring that all of us--even Michael Grossman, the victim of Menhart's efforts to enforce his purported trademark rights in the term "CyberLaw"--are now free to use the term "Cyberlaw" ... I had Funny--I would have
thought it wasn't worth his time because the application was completely unmeritorious. What Eric Menhart might characterize as a "shouting match" is actually online word of mouth in action. (Note: the Baltimore Sun ...
18 Jan, 2008 3:59 pm
... trademark rights in a common Internet term involves the term "Cyberlaw." But unlike the anti-genericism efforts, Eric Menhart--a self-described "recognized leader" in intellectual property--is seeking to fence in the generic term "Cyberlaw" to convert ... of cyberlaw, those
legal issues confronting the online world." Unfortunately, the improbability of this trademark hasn't stopped Menhart from asserting his
perceived rights against third parties. The EFF writes about one such demand against Michael ...
23 May 9:17 am
... found that private causes of action may be brought in the D.C. Superior Court under the Act without the need for enabling legislation. CyberLaw PC attorney Eric Menhart was on the brief for the prevailing appellant. Read the full text of the opinion: Portuguese American
Leadership Council of the United States, Inc. v. Investors Alert, Inc. No. 04-CV-1187 (D.C. 2008) (docs/portuguese.pdf). In its decision, ...
28 Mar, 2008 10:12 am
CyberLaw Attorney Eric Menhart recently testified as an expert guest before the Council of the
District of Columbia (http://www.dccouncil.washington.dc.us/) on the Councils proposed Spam Deterrence Act of 2007. A ... an established business relationship, and including
liability for rogue ISPs that enable spammers to operate on their networks. Finally, Menhart recommended statutory authority allowing limited
jurisdictional discovery for any plaintiff that offered a well-pled complaint. While ...
1 Dec, 2008 3:07 pm
CyberLaw P.C. attorney Eric Menhart was recently quoted in a Forbes.com
(http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/11/13/online-taxes-revenue-tech-internet-cx_ew_1113tax.html) article entitled Web Sales Tax ... The article discusses the potential for
additional sales taxes on online transactions, particularly in light of dwindling state budgets. Menhart is the author of the article Taxing
the Internet: Analyzing the States Plan to Derive Online Sales Revenue (docs/taxingtheinternet.pdf), published ...
4 Mar, 2008 12:39 am
Attorney Eric Menhart recently commented in two articles in The Daily Tar Heel
(http://www.dailytarheel.com), the newspaper serving the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill community. The first article (docs/dailytarheel1.pdf), entitled Facing Scrutiny,
examines information on social networking sites as it is used to investigate and screen college students. The second article (docs/dailytarheel2.pdf), entitled Google Puts Chapel Hill
Streets on View, examines the ...
6 Feb 5:50 pm
... : * Ludicrous trademark claims. 2008 hardly had a monopoly on dumb trademark claims; those are perennial. But 2008 certainly saw some asinine entries, including putative Cyberlawyer
Eric Menhart's claim to own a trademark in the term "Cyberlaw," Jones Day's efforts to claim ...
reach by curtailing non-Kentucky residents from making possibly legal uses of the domain name." * Eric Menhart, a lawyer who claims to practice Cyberlaw, doesn't know that Cyberlaw is a generic term. * ...
8 Jun 5:03 pm
... confused how Morena had protectable trademark rights in her name. Did she make any use in commerce in the United States? Did her name achieve secondary meaning? This could be
another case where trademark law is being stretched to stop bad behavior. * Eric Menhart, the
self-purported owner of a trademark in the term Cyberlaw, has gotten his very own personal gripe site. Advertising and Marketing * How much can Behavioral ...
18 Jan, 2008 8:43 am
Eric Menhart may call himself a cyberlawyer, but we think he has a lot of learn about cyberlaw -- and
common sense. Menhart is the author of a blog about cyberlaw ... , he's threatening other lawyers with legal action based on this silly "mark."
Menhart has demanded that attorney Michael Grossman change the title of his blog about technology law ... Internet and Society, and Elliot
Zimmerman's blog, CyberLaw.info, are in Menhart's sights as well. I wish I could say I was surprised by this one, but such ...
18 Jan, 2008 6:27 pm
... the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Corynne McSherry looks at a rather "silly" trademark case: Eric Menhart may call himself a cyberlawyer, but we think he has a lot of learn about cyberlaw -- and common sense. Menhart is the author of a blog about cyberlaw issues called, logically if not innovatively, "Cyberlawg." ... , he's threatening other lawyers with legal
action based on this silly "mark." Menhart has demanded that attorney Michael Grossman change the title of his blog about technology ...
27 Jan, 2008 10:51 pm
... begin the review proper with my take on a recent issue of great interest to regular readers of this blog. A lawyer named Eric
Menhart has taken an aggressive stance towards the highly descriptive, if not generic, term "Cyberlaw." He ... cases brought against
manufacturers of prescription drugs. So, what happens when lawyers stray from their normal fields of practice? Eric Turkewitz examines what
happened when a criminal lawyer tried handling a medical malpractice case. John Phillips presents Lynch, ...
23 Jan, 2008 1:16 pm
Eric Menhart is a lawyer who heads Cyberlaw, which holds itself out as a "recognized leader" in
matters such as domain name disputes, copyright and trademark. But apparently, Menhart's work isn't as highly regarded by other Internet
experts, who have...
28 Jan, 2008 7:15 am
In Blawg Review #144, Kevin A. Thompson reports that a Washington, D.C. lawyer named Eric Menhart has
filed an application to register the term CYBERLAW as a service mark for various legal services (Serial No. 77341910). Mr. Menhart has been so
bold as to send a cease-and-desist letter to another blogger. Many have protested, including Mr. Thompson, whose own blog is called Cyberlaw Central. They ...
7 Mar, 2008 2:13 am
[Remember, for the most recent BlawgIT postings, visit www.blawgit.com] Attorney Eric Menhart, the
guy who tried to register the trademark CyberLaw, does not appear to the only trademark altruist out there. According to bit-tech.net, Finnish game developer Futuremark Oy is ...
looking." At least then he would get some points for panache. As it stands, he merely gets points for chutzpah, and still only manages silver. Maybe by Beijing he will be ready to
challenge Mr. Menhart for the gold. Brett Trout
19 Jan, 2008 6:31 pm
Slashdot: BigTimOBrien writes to mention the EFF is reporting that self-proclaimed cyberlawyer, Eric Menhart, has decided to trademark use of the term "cyberlaw" and is threatening other lawyers with legal action over the term. Describing yourself as a
"cyberlaw" expert is pretty lame, but I just may start right now. In fact, I think I just [...]
21 Feb, 2008 9:00 am
Eric Menhart, a recently sworn-in D.C. technology attorney, applied for trademark rights on the term
"cyberlaw," which also happens to be the name of his personal firm. It has caused a lawyerly outcry among the industry's bloggers, who say the well-worn word clearly belongs in the
public domain. Read the article: Baltimore Sun
14 Dec, 2004 2:04 pm
[JURIST] A Maryland judge has struck down as unconstitutional Maryland's 2002 Commercial Electronic Mail Act [PDF], the first state law to punish senders of junk e-mail, commonly known
as spam. Judge Durke G. Thompson of the Montgomery County Circuit Court dismissed a case brought against a New York e-mail distribution company by Eric Menhart, a George Washington University Law School student.
31 Jan, 2008 9:10 am
... Google search shows that at least 356,000 others apparently have my back on this. The problem lies with one Eric J. Menhart, a Washington D.C. attorney, who apparently believes he is the only one allowed to use the generic term cyberlaw in association with "providing
information relating to legal affairs." On the upside, Mr. Menhart appears to stand alone in this belief. Such uniqueness is actually quite
amazing in this day and age, especially when you consider people ...
27 Feb, 2008 7:54 am
... Property - You've Been Rick Rolled One of the most interesting recent online intellectual property events was Eric "Wile E. Coyote
Cybergenius" Menhart capitulating his quixotic attempt to trademark the term "cyberlaw" out of the public domain. Admittedly ... trademark
registration. Tricia Bishop of The Baltimore Sun even quoted your humble narrator in her documentation of Mr. Menhart's online implosion. Now
what was that about no publicity being bad publicity? The last decade and a half of my days ...
19 Jan, 2008 10:23 am
... not sure why as Grossman's blog is relatively new and quite quiet. Maybe Menhart should try pick on someone else. There's loads to choose
from, especially in the ... on I read about this sorry affair on one of my favourite technology law (or cyberlaw?) blogs by Eric Goldman.
Here's his post. A separate post came from Peter Black (also ... data and voice. Hmmm. Oh, and finally, and you'll all love this. Menhart's
specimens submitted in support of his (as yet unsuccessful) application consist entirely of ...
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