The academic calendar has turned to October as athletic conferences and their member institutions attempt to deal with athletes’ growing expectations about name, image and likeness (NIL) opportunities. The tsunami created by...more
Having covered the background history of the evolution of college athletes’ name, image and likeness (NIL) rights in our prior bulletins, our next series of bulletins will address where we are now in the current, but still...more
The 2021 college football season is upon us and, for the first time, college athletes in all sports can exercise their publicity rights — commonly referred to as “name, image and likeness” (NIL) — without sacrificing their...more
Updated April 1, 2020 -
The Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a notice on March 31, 2020, that the due date for any of the following filings that falls between March 27, 2020 and April 30,...more
As we continue to watch the effects of COVID-19 on our communities, it is impossible not to be struck by the scale of school closures and shuttered businesses, as well as the swift transitions made to accommodate mass...more