Author Archives: John DiGiacomo

Anyone who follows college football probably knows about the Nico and Madden Iamaleava sagas. Nico Iamaleava was a 2024-25 playoff star quarterback for Tennessee with a Name, Image and Likeness (“NIL”) package worth $2.4 million, but ultimately unhappy. He announced on April 20, 2025, that he would be transferring to the UCLA Bruins (which, incidentally, […]

If you are engaged in esports at any serious level, you need an esports attorney like the ones at Revision Legal. Consider just the issue of intellectual property. Intellectual property, of course, covers rights related to trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets. These are related to the way in which you play — such as […]

As reported here, the owner of the trademark SPOTIFY successfully opposed the registration of two trademarks involving the word mark POTIFY. Here are a few of the legal lessons we learned. A registered trademark is not needed to file a USPTO Opposition The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office routinely publishes proposed trademarks for review by […]

Most of the recently enacted state-level consumer data privacy statutes have added a focus on automated decisions that “produce legal or similarly significant effects” concerning an individual. Most of the statutes simply allow consumers to opt out of such automated decision-making processes. But some of the data protection statutes go further. For example, the Minnesota […]

Protecting your trademarks from infringement is necessary to ensure that your trademarks, first, remain YOUR trademarks and, second, remain functioning as trademarks. It does not happen too often, but occasionally, a trademark left unpoliced will end up being canceled legally, which allows a competitor to begin using the trademark. A more common problem is genericide. […]

Almost every State in the country now allows student athletes to participate in marketing and financial exploitation of their name, image and likeness (“NIL”). This has allowed athletes to monetize their college (and even high school) sports careers. In addition to allowing an athlete to profit from their NIL, most newly enacted State laws allow […]

In the summer of 2024, Rhode Island became the 19th State to enact a version of a consumer data privacy statute entitled the Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (“RIDTPPA”). In this article, the Consumer Data Privacy Compliance attorneys at Revision Legal discuss what businesses need to know about the RIDTPPA. As with […]

In the summer of 2024, Rhode Island enacted the Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (“RIDTPPA”). It was signed by the Rhode Island Governor and takes effect on January 1, 2026. In theory, RIDTPPA is designed by Rhode Island lawmakers to protect the personal data of Rhode Island consumers and give residents certain […]

Revenge porn — or what, more accurately, should be called non-consensual pornography (“NCP”) — has been in the news lately. Massachusetts recently became the 49th State to enact a law banning and punishing NCP (leaving only South Carolina as the outlier). See news report here. Moreover, the push to create a federal law banning NCP […]

Essentially, the answer is “no.” The only real thing that can be changed is the scale of a trademark. But, it must look the same whether it is a half an inch tall or 10 feet tall. And, in truth, you should not WANT to change your trademark since changing it diminishes its functioning as […]