–Ben Kwan, Attorney
I returned from Paris on Tuesday after a short vacation. As a bit of a news junky, it was admittedly an exciting time to be there. When I arrived on Friday, we headed straight for the
–Ben Kwan, Attorney
As soon as the story emerged earlier this month about the Harvard Business School professor who berated a Boston-area Chinese restaurant over his takeout bill, I was champing at the bit to get on the DuetsBlog to pen my own long-simmering epistle about the burdens of running a Chinese takeout joint.
–Ben Kwan, Attorney
The usual suspects did it again Tuesday. My Minnesota friends who, like me, tend to indulge in a bit too much Minnesota-centric navel gazing took high interest to a Minneapolis Star Tribune column that posed an interesting question: “Does Minnesota’s region have an identity crisis?” My Facebook feed lit up
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This month, the greater downtown Minneapolis community is welcoming the Brave New Workshop Student Union to the neighborhood. Until just a few weeks ago, the improvisational comedy school convened classes at the Brave New Workshop’s original home on Hennepin Avenue in the Uptown neighborhood. The Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal has a piece
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Dozens of former NFL players lit up the federal court docket here in Minnesota with filings on Monday targeted at Defendants including the National Football League, NFL Films, Inc., and NFL Productions, LLC.
The retired players’ suits are the latest in a line of cases dating back to about 2009 when former
–Ben Kwan, Attorney
I can’t even say the word! Don’t worry, I’ll have to eventually. Let’s just say the folks at CBS are likely pretty steamed up over getting hauled into court on a smelly copyright suit involving a noisy character from its popular NCIS show.
The California designer, developer, and manufacturer of the original
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As if the nation’s bar examinees didn’t have enough to worry about — last night, the company administering the process for any test-taker using his or her laptop to take yesterday’s essay portion of the exam experienced what could only be described as a major meltdown. ExamSoft reports a problem at a
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About a year ago, funny little Smart Fortwo vehicles started popping up all over my neighborhood. I wondered whether there was some sort of European invasion taking place in Minneapolis. Whatever was happening, I just couldn’t see myself getting into one of those little blue and white roller skates.
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–Ben Kwan, Attorney
This week, Under Armour, the Baltimore-based athletic apparel behemoth gave us a new take on the well-pleaded complaint. Under Armour sued Florida-based I A Nutrition, Inc., for trademark infringement in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The complaint alleges infringement based on I A Nutrition’s use of the
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Sure, I’ve indulged in the occasional “selfie.” (From now on, without quotation marks because, let’s face it, if Oxford called it the word of the year in 2013, it’s here to stay.) But each one still gives me some measure of pause.
I sometimes ask, “why am I doing this?” If we