HAVE YOU or someone you know received a letter or email (usually from “satscams”) saying it was from Dish Network LLC, EchoStar Technologies, and NagraStar LLC (collectively “NagraStar”)? Does the NagraStar letter or satscams email say you bought “IKS passcodes for pirate television services”? Does it include an offer to settle NagraStar’s claims in exchange for a lump…
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Florida’s First Judicial Circuit recently found it unlikely that the Sandshaker Lounge would be able to prove trademark dilution of its ‘Shaker’ mark by the ‘Shaka Bar.’ Here’s the story. Livin’ off sponge cake . . . WAY UP in the panhandle — about a six-hour drive from Orlando — one beach bar has been trying to “shake…
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A Facebook ‘Secret Lovers’ post and possibly intercepted Facebook messages may be creepy, but they’re not ‘cyberstalking,’ says Second DCA in Horowitz v. Horowitz. I happened to be doing some research today and stumbled across a case from last year that, because of its focus on a couple of Facebook posts, piqued my interest. In 2013, a wife, Maureen P.…
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