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We maintain two blogs: one in English (Sputnik Blog) and another in Russian (Opora Blog or Блог Опора).

Sputnik Blog – A blog about developments in legal protection of technology innovation and brand names.

Opora Blog - Blog of Russian Expats in America. We discuss business, legal and cultural events that impact our lives.

US consumers win, consumers in less developed countries loose. Retailers win, copyright and luxury brand owners loose. This summarizes the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s March 19, 2013 ruling that the Copyright Act’s first-sale doctrine extends to products made and copyright works sold outside the U.S. Last Tuesday, the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, reversed a lower court’s decision that the federal copyright law’s first-sale doctrine applied only to U.S.-made goods. (Curiously...
Monday, March 25, 2013 21:32:47

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