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Keep Your Friends Close: A Framework For Addressing Rights To Social Media Contacts, Courtney J. Mitchel
Keep Your Friends Close: A Framework For Addressing Rights To Social Media Contacts, Courtney J. Mitchel
Vanderbilt Law Review
A group of entrepreneurial recent college graduates starts a tutoring and test prep company focused on helping promising high school students get an edge on their college applications. Since the cost of print advertising exceeds the group's budget, they each actively promote the business on their personal social media accounts, garnering their first clients. They also create company accounts on Facebook, Linkedln, and Twitter, which clients join for easy, direct communication and quick access to information. Though all the founders contribute occasional posts and encourage their personal social media contacts to join the company accounts, one eventually becomes, in practice …
Trademarked For Death? A Licensee's Trademark Rights After An Executory Contract Is Rejected In Bankruptcy, Philip L. Lu
Trademarked For Death? A Licensee's Trademark Rights After An Executory Contract Is Rejected In Bankruptcy, Philip L. Lu
Vanderbilt Law Review
In 1872, a young man named Claudio Alvarez Lefebre began manufacturing and selling high-quality rum in Cuba under the brand name "Ron Matusalem." In 1948, as the family-run business prospered, the company registered a trademark and corporate logo in the United States. Upon his death, Lefebre left the business-and the secret formulas for making his rum-to his wife and children. By the early 1960s, Lefebre's wife and children had immigrated to the United States, and they split the rum-making business into two separate corporations. These two distinct entities negotiated an executory contract in the form of a franchise agreement with …