Copyright and Trademark Mastery
Next Early Bradford Exchange logo The marketing of collector’s plates involved a good deal of intellectual property law. The plate designs were mostly protected by copyright laws that prevented the artistic work from [...]
Hiring Lawyers
Next Wizard of Oz Collectors Plate I got extensive experience at Bradford in managing litigation outside the United States. Bradford’s collector’s plates were usually made from isolated kaolin clay deposits in China, Japan, [...]
Rod MacArthur and The MacArthur Foundation
Next William T. Kirby When his father had died at the age of 81 in 1978, most of his wealth had been left to the Foundation in the form of his sole ownership [...]
Recruitment by J. Roderick MacArthur
Next Bob Grossman and Frank Roan at opening of Roan & Grossman's Sarasota, Florida office I put the Army in my rear-view mirror at the beginning of the 1970s and got busy. It was an eventful [...]
Appendix 1 Excerpts from Encyclopaedia Britannica Petition for a Writ of Certiorari in the Supreme Court of the United States
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. vs. Dickstein, Shapiro, LLP QUESTIONS PRESENTED In the 1980s, Petitioner Encyclopaedia Britannica (“Britannica”) developed a pioneering multimedia search system that, for the first time, was able to search through vast amounts of [...]
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments This book could not have been written without the help and support of family, friends, and colleagues at The Cliff Dwellers club in Chicago. My wife Cathy without complaint stoically put up with [...]
Lunch with Gen. William Westmoreland
Next Chapter Lunch with Gen. William Westmoreland Gen. William Westmoreland after suing CBS for libel In June 1968, while I was in basic training, Gen. William Westmoreland had been kicked upstairs by [...]
1974 Congressional Hearings on Military Surveillance
Next 1974 Congressional Hearings on Military Surveillance Testimony of William J. Bowe before U.S. Sen. Sam Ervin (D-NC), Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee U.S. Senator Sam Ervin (D-NC) After I left the Army, Sen. [...]
Getting Short—The 1971 “Stop the Government” Protests
Next Getting Short - The 1971 "Stop the Government" Protest 1971 Helicopter lands troops at the Washington Monument during the "Stop the Government" May Day antiwar protest My three-year enlistment was coming [...]
