Faruki Blog

Update on Coca-Cola's Trademarking of Twitter Hashtags

In what may be a growing trend in social media marketing, attempting to trademark Twitter hashtags -- a phrase or keyword preceded by the symbol # to.. Read More

Tyson Foods: U.S. Supreme Court Avoids Issue of Recovery by Uninjured Class Members, While Allowing Statistical Evidence to Establish Classwide Liability

This blog article follows up on an earlier article (found here) published prior to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Tyson Foods, Inc. v... Read More

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is – MasterCard Announces "Selfie Security" Feature to Combat Identity Theft

Have trouble remembering passwords? Worried that identity thieves can easily gain access to your credit card credentials? Well, MasterCard has.. Read More

A Jury of Your Peering? Federal Judge Bars Social Media Investigations to Protect Juror Privacy

Have you ever stopped to think about how much information someone can find about you after some googling? Think about all the data that people enter.. Read More

Will the Federal Circuit (Or Congress) Contain the Gusher of Patent Litigation in East Texas?

Perhaps the strangest aspect of patent practice in the United States, especially for non-lawyers, is the fact that so much patent infringement.. Read More

Regulators! Mount Up!! A Primer on the Regulators Patrolling the Data Privacy & Security Frontier.

For those companies trying to make sense of all the ways they can get into trouble with data privacy and security matters, it might be helpful (or a.. Read More

Jeff Cox Leading Community Legal and Health Campaigns

Jeff Cox has been selected to serve as Co-Chair of the 2016 Access to Justice Campaign to benefit and support the work of organizations serving the.. Read More

The Tricky Trust-Transparency Transposition: Is the Apple v. FBI Fight a Game Changer in America's Value for Privacy?

Transparency is about trust. ("Gee, Scot, that is one death grip you have on the obvious.") Fair enough, but what is not always obvious is the.. Read More

Social Media for Lawyers: New Tricks, but Old Rules

Last December, I had the privilege of speaking to the Dayton Intellectual Property Law Association about the role social media plays in the.. Read More

Supreme Court Warns Plaintiffs: Be Wary of Early Settlement Offers

In the early stages of defending class actions, one of the first questions is – why don't we just settle with the named plaintiff and end the claim.. Read More
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