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		<title>Announcing new partnership with Kayira Law Firm, LLP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[McIlvaine Law Firm, LLC is pleased to announce a new partnership with Kayira Law Firm, LLP.&#160; Managing Partner Eric Kayira is a Litigation attorney with over ten years experience practicing in Intellectual Property litigation.&#160; Officially listed as ‘Of Counsel’ to McIlvaine Law Firm, Kayira will contribute his skills and experience to clients of the firm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbie Slays Bratz in Copyright Dispute</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past four years Mattel, the makers of Barbie, have been in litigation to stop a former employee from distributing the Bratz line of dolls.  Assuming there is no appeal, it would seem that Mattel has finally won this battle. 
The former employee was found to have developed the Bratz line of toys while working [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcilvainelaw.com/blog/?p=57</link>
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		<title>Are your Classmates Really Looking for you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A very common internet advertisement promises you that your former high school classmates are looking for you and that all you have to do is sign up for their service and you will be connected.  Is this a definite promise, or mere salesmanship and puffery?
One customer, Anthony Michaels (perhaps you went to school with him?), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcilvainelaw.com/blog/?p=56</link>
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		<title>Video Game maker EA Sued for Music Copyright Infringement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The maker of several sports licensed video games has been sued for the use of a team anthem in its games.  The games include NCAA Basketball, NCAA Football, and NCAA Baseball.  The song used is alleged to be the copyrighted property of composer Gerald Willis, who composed the song for the University of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcilvainelaw.com/blog/?p=55</link>
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		<title>iPhone Copyright dispute over &#8216;iBeer&#8217; App</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple has had its fair share of trademark disputes over its claim to the letter &#8216;i&#8217;.  But now, two App developers are embroiled in a copyright dispute over a pair of software applications developed for the iphone.  
The first developer, Hottrix, developed a software program called &#8216;iBeer&#8217;, which basically simulates having a pint [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcilvainelaw.com/blog/?p=54</link>
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		<title>Major Blog Mistakes Another for Reliable Source</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this era of &#8220;Web 2.0&#8243;, everyone is now a journalist.  Where before only certain professionals were given the power to spread information, now anyone with a blog can reach the same kind of audience.  But what level of credibility should bloggers be given?
Last week, a major video game blog, Kotaku, posted a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcilvainelaw.com/blog/?p=53</link>
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		<title>Catholic Rosary banned as &#8216;Gang Symbol&#8217; in Texas school</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For my media law class tonight we will be discussing the first amendment in schools.  So it is our good fortune to have this story break about a girl who was told to remove a symbol of religious expression while on school grounds.
Although the girl was not alleged to have any gang connections herself, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcilvainelaw.com/blog/?p=52</link>
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		<title>Coming Monday:  You Must be a Licensed Attorney to File a Trademark Registration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, September 15th, the United States Patent and Trademark Office will enact new rules regarding who may file Patent and Trademark registrations and all associated filings.  The new rules seem to require that all such filings be made either by a licensed attorney, or a non-attorney working as an assistant to an attorney. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcilvainelaw.com/blog/?p=51</link>
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		<title>Photographer Charged with Secretly Videotaping Women in Dressing room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I am teaching my Media Law students about Invasion of Privacy.  So I thought I&#8217;d share this story about a man from Long Island, New York caught videotaping a woman and her two underage daughters in the dressing room of his home studio while they changed clothes.  The women discovered a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcilvainelaw.com/blog/?p=50</link>
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		<title>New Digital Pen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For students, lawyers, and note takers everywhere, your work load may become a lot easier.  Take a look at this article about a digital pen that not only records audio, but the actual words you write as you write them.  
Now you can have a hand written document and create a digital copy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mcilvainelaw.com/blog/?p=49</link>
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