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http://www.davidellislaw.com/Publications/Publication.aspx - A Primer on the Law of Intellectual Property - The Florida Bar Journal

http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=pdf&sid=27  - What You Need to Know About Copyright Law

http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=pdf&sid=28  - What You Need to Know About Trademark Law

http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=pdf&sid=29  - What You Need to Know About Trademark Dilution

http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=25&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0  - Florida "Apprentice" Trumps Internet Cybersquatter In Domain Name Dispute

http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=24&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0  - What?s In A Name? Florida Enacts A Trademark Act For The 21st Century

http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=17  - The File-Sharing Wars: National Nine Nix Nifty Non-Napster Networks

http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=18  - Seeing Red: Native Americans Win An Appeal In Ongoing Effort To Cancel Washington Redskins Trademark Registrations

http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=15  - A Model Opinion - Federal Appeals Court Rules That State Right of Publicity Is Not Preempted by Federal Copyright Law

http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=16  - Court Rules That Copyright Act Preempts Software Licensor's Conversion and Unjust Enrichment Claims under State Law

http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=14  - Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Noncommercial Use of a Trademark as a Domain Name Is Not Infringement under the U.S. Trademark (Lanham) Act

http://easl.info/print.php?sid=6  - Ninth News: Nifty Non-Napster Networks Not Nixed - Music File Sharing Case

http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=13&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0  -
Speak No Evel: Federal Appeals Court Rules That ESPN Did Not Defame Evel Knievel

http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=11&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0  
A Case of Lasting Impression: Supreme Court Rules on Trademark Fair Use

http://easl.info/modules/Static_Docs/data/20040501%20EASL%20Newsletter.pdf  - Four articles on intellectual property in the Florida Bar EASL Newsletter, May 2004 on Elvis, Napster, Dwight Eisenhower, and the Washington Redskins.

http://easl.info/index.php?module=Static_Docs&func=view&f=20030419+David+Ellis+Victorias+Secret+Article.htm  -
It?s Not Just Victoria?s Secret: In a Case of Comparative Negligees the Supreme Court Clarifies Trademark Dilution Law

http://easl.info/index.php?module=Static_Docs&func=view&f=20020228+David+Ellis+Information+Highway+Article.htm  - Thumbing along the Information Highway: Federal Appeals Court Rules Online Thumbnail Photos Are Fair Use but Not Full-sized Images

http://easl.info/modules/Static_Docs/data/20020419%20David%20Ellis%20Smut%20in%20Cyberspace%20Article%20.pdf  - Smut in Cyberspace - The US Supreme Court Strikes Down Virtual Child Pornography Statute

http://easl.info/modules/Static_Docs/data/20030701%20EASL%20Newsletter.pdf - Two articles from the Florida Bar EASL Newsletter, July 2003 - "It?s Not Just Victoria?s Secret: in a Case of Comparative Negligees the Supreme Court Clarifies Trademark Dilution Law, " pp. 10-11, and "The Court?s Gone Wild! - Keeping Abreast of Developments in Florida?s Publicity and Privacy Laws," pp. 12-13.

http://easl.info/modules/Static_Docs/data/20040101%20David%20Ellis%20Redskins%20Article.htm  -
Seeing Red: Native Americans Try - But Fail - To Cancel The Washington Redskins' Trademark Registrations

http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=cyjk6xn6.wlzlnrn6.67we5xn6.z5z7irn6.174&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stpetebar.com%2Fpdfs%2FParaclete_12-2003.pdf  - Is it Now or Never? A Performer?s Right of Publicity May Endure Although He Has Left the Stage Forever - Article on page 8 of the Paraclete, St. Petersburg Bar Assn. Newsletter, December 2003.

http://easl.info/modules/Static_Docs/data/20011029%20David%20Ellis%20Wind%20Done%20Gone%20Article%20.pdf -
The Injunction Done Gone: Federal Appeals Court Upholds "Gone with the Wind" Parody Fair Use Copyright Defense

http://www.stpetebar.com/pdfs/Paraclete_10-2003.pdf  - Great Grokster! Nifty Non-Napster Networks Not Nixed - Article on page 13 of the Paraclete, St. Petersburg Bar Assn. Newsletter, October 2003.

http://easl.info/index.php?module=Static_Docs&func=view&f=20010216+David+Ellis+Napster+Article.htm  -
Ninth Nixes Napster's Nifty Network

http://easl.info/index.php?module=Static_Docs&func=view&f=20010212+David+Ellis+Reverse+Domain+Hijackers+Article.htm  - Can You Be Master of Your Domain in a Web of Cybersquatters and Reverse Domain Hijackers?


http://www.computer.flabar.org/cybersquatting.html  - New Anticybersquatting Law Can Make You Master of Your Domain


http://easl.info/index.php?module=Static_Docs&func=view&f=20010418+David+Ellis+Copyright+Term+Extension+Article.htm  - Happy Birthday, Mickey! Federal Appeals Court Upholds the Constitutionality of the Copyright Term Extension Act


http://www.clwbar.org/resipsa/jan99/copyright.html  - Congress Enacts a Mickey Mouse Law and Legislation for the New Millennium


http://www.flabar.org/DIVCOM/JN/JNJournal01.nsf/76d28aa8f2ee03e185256aa9005d8d9a/aa6428166634d0eb85256adb005d6191?OpenDocument  - Cyberlaw and Computer Technology: A Primer on the Law of Intellectual Property Protection

http://www.computer.flabar.org/recent.html  - Florida Enacts New Non-Compete Law

http://www.lawyers.com/davidrellis  - David R. Ellis Web Page

http://www.acm.org/top/people/ellis.html  - ACM Lectureship Biography

http://easl.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=pdf&sid=9  - Don't Play With Barbie, by Sharon Ellis, J.D.

Areas Of Practice

  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Computer Law
  • Internet Law
  • Trademark Law
  • Registered Patent Attorney
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