18 December

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7 Defense Strategies To Fight Wrongful Foreclosure

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Facing foreclosure feels overwhelming and frightening. Your home is at stake, along with your credit rating and financial stability. While lenders have the right to foreclose when borrowers default on mortgage obligations, they must follow proper procedures and comply with all legal requirements. Many foreclosures proceed based on incomplete documentation, procedural violations, or outright fraud that gives homeowners valid defenses. Our friends at Leinart Law Firm emphasize that homeowners have rights during the foreclosure process and that lenders must meet strict legal standards before taking your property. When you're facing foreclosure proceedings, a mortgage lawyer can examine your loan documents, identify...

15 December

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Top USPTO Trademark Application Mistakes

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Here's something that might surprise you: The rejection rate sits around 40%, nearly half of all applications. Filing a trademark application seems pretty straightforward at first, but then the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) sends you a rejection letter, and suddenly it's not so simple anymore. Most business owners figure their application will go through without a hitch. Instead, they're stuck dealing with unexpected problems that push back protection for months or force them to restart the whole process. Choosing A Mark That's Too Generic Or Descriptive This is probably the biggest mistake we see. Business owners pick marks that...

19 November

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Understanding Commercial Litigation And When Your Business Needs Legal Action

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Business lawsuits differ significantly from other types of legal disputes. The stakes often involve substantial financial losses, ongoing business relationships, and your company's reputation in the marketplace. When commercial disagreements can't be resolved through negotiation, litigation becomes the path forward. Commercial litigation covers disputes between businesses or between a business and individuals in a commercial context. Our friends at Sahyers Firm LLC discuss these matters daily because companies face legal challenges at every stage of growth. A commercial litigation lawyer represents businesses in court proceedings involving contracts, partnerships, intellectual property, and various other business-related conflicts. What Commercial Litigation Covers The scope of commercial...

05 November

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Can Freelancers Keep Rights To Work They Create For Clients

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If you're a freelancer creating original work for clients, you might assume you own what you make. A lot of people do. But that's not always how it works under copyright law. The answer depends on several factors. What type of work are you doing? How's your relationship with the client structured? And most importantly, have you signed a contract that addresses ownership? Many freelancers discover too late that they don't have the rights they thought they had. Understanding these rules before you start a project protects your ability to reuse your work, build your portfolio, and maintain control over your creative...

03 November

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After “Pretty Woman”: Parody, Late-Night Television, And The Recalibration Of Fair Use From Campbell To The Platform Era: A Sequel

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Events surrounding Jimmy Kimmel Live! illuminate two complementary ways U.S. law mediates the tension between intellectual property (IP) and free speech. First, copyright’s built-in First Amendment accommodations—most centrally, fair use and the idea–expression boundary—leave breathing room for commentary, criticism, and parody. That accommodation is on full display in Santos v. Kimmel (2025), where the Second Circuit affirmed dismissal of George Santos’s copyright claims because Kimmel’s on-air use of Santos’s Cameo videos was fair use. Second, when state actors pressure private intermediaries to suppress speech, First Amendment “jawboning” doctrine (separate from IP) polices coercion. Read together, these doctrines preserve space for...

03 November

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Comedy, Copyright & Coercion: Jimmy Kimmel As A Case Study In The First Amendment’s Intellectual Property (IP) Architecture

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Events surrounding Jimmy Kimmel Live! illuminate two complementary ways U.S. law mediates the tension between intellectual property (IP) and free speech. First, copyright’s built-in First Amendment accommodations - most centrally fair use and the idea–expression boundary - leave breathing room for commentary, criticism, and parody. That accommodation is on full display in Santos v. Kimmel (2025), where the Second Circuit affirmed dismissal of George Santos’ copyright claims because Kimmel’s on-air use of Santos’ Cameo videos was fair use. Second, when state actors pressure private intermediaries to suppress speech, First Amendment “jawboning” doctrine (separate from IP) polices coercion. Read together, these...

01 November

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How Courts Calculate Fair Royalty Rates For Essential Patents

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When your company implements a technical standard that incorporates someone else's patented technology, you'll eventually need to figure out what's fair to pay. And honestly, it's not as simple as it sounds. Courts have to walk this tightrope. They need to compensate patent holders for their innovations while making sure licensing fees don't get so expensive that nobody can afford to use the technology. If you're holding standard essential patents or licensing them for your products, you need to understand how judges actually arrive at these numbers. The Foundation: Georgia-Pacific Factors Most courts start with something called the Georgia-Pacific framework. It's fifteen factors...

31 October

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How Ip Disputes Emerge In Family Firms

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Family businesses often grow from shared trust, but when intellectual property is involved, that trust can be tested. As a Jersey City, NJ intellectual property lawyer, we’ve advised many clients who found themselves dealing with IP theft or misuse within their own family-run business. Whether it's a dispute over brand ownership, stolen trade secrets, or misused creative assets, the legal consequences can be significant and personal. Taking action is critical when it comes to protecting your business from internal misuse. It can be difficult to bring legal action against family, but working with a neutral third party such as an...

30 October

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The SEP Enforcement Challenge Abroad

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Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) play a key role in global technology markets. But when enforcement takes place outside jurisdictions with unified patent courts, SEP holders face steep legal and procedural hurdles. As an SEP lawyer, we work with clients to assert their patent rights across uneven legal landscapes and work through the unique enforcement challenges that arise internationally. At COFFYLAW, we focus on protecting your business through carefully tailored global strategies. Our attorneys understand how difficult it can be to work internationally with all the different laws in place, but we are here to help manage all of that. What SEP...

29 September

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Intellectual Property In Escape Rooms

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As a Jersey City, NJ intellectual property lawyer, we’ve worked with a growing number of entrepreneurs and creatives facing legal questions tied to the rise of immersive entertainment. One industry that frequently presents these concerns is escape rooms. At COFFYLAW, we help protect the innovative ideas that make these experiences successful and legally sound. Escape rooms combine storytelling, puzzles, props, and often technology to create a live-action challenge for participants. While the experience may seem ephemeral, the intellectual property behind it is not. From the design of the puzzles to the narrative, music, and branded elements, escape rooms often rely on...

7 Defense Strategies To Fight Wrongful Foreclosure

Top USPTO Trademark Application Mistakes

Understanding Commercial Litigation And When Your Business Needs Legal Action

Can Freelancers Keep Rights To Work They Create For Clients

After “Pretty Woman”: Parody, Late-Night Television, And The Recalibration Of Fair Use From Campbell To The Platform Era: A Sequel

Comedy, Copyright & Coercion: Jimmy Kimmel As A Case Study In The First Amendment’s Intellectual Property (IP) Architecture

How Courts Calculate Fair Royalty Rates For Essential Patents

How Ip Disputes Emerge In Family Firms

The SEP Enforcement Challenge Abroad

Intellectual Property In Escape Rooms

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