Natalia Birriel Fernandez
Natalia Birriel Fernández advises clients as they build and protect their valuable intellectual property portfolios. She supports intellectual property clients by writing legal memoranda, conducting research to answer questions on copyright and trademark matters, preparing takedown notices, and drafting office action responses for the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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Matthew McConaughey made news earlier this year when his legal team filed several trademark applications for certain phrases from his films, like the iconic “alright, alright, alright” and “just keep living right? I mean, what else are we going to do?” from his 1993 film “Dazed and Confused.”
McConaughey’s filings may have received the most media attention, but he is by no means alone. Other celebrities have followed suit, including musicians like Taylor Swift, who filed two trademark applications in April for sound bites of her voice saying, “Hey, it’s Taylor…”
Continue reading “Not Alright, Alright, Alright: How Celebrities Are Leveraging Trademark Law to Fight Digital Replicas (and How You Can Too!)”
