Douglas R. Wolf

About the Author

Douglas R. Wolf

Douglas R. Wolf is a Shareholder in  Wolf Greenfield's Trademark Group.

• IP: The birthing of celebrity brands: Lin-Tastic!

  By Douglas R. Wolf, Christina M. Licursi  |  February 28, 2012

  From “Linsanity” to Blue Ivy Carter, how celebrities trademark their names and personas

• IP: What you need to know about Creative Commons

  By Douglas R. Wolf, Anderson Duff  |  February 14, 2012

  Any recent law school graduate or intellectual property attorney has likely come across Creative Commons, the California-based non-profit founded by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson and Eric Eldred. In-house attorneys working in the media industry might blame it for the need to remind their production people not to use everything found...

• IP: Is SOPA really that bad?

  By Douglas R. Wolf, Christina M. Licursi  |  January 31, 2012

  Two weeks ago we experienced a moment of Internet history. On Jan. 18, dubbed “Blackout Day,” Internet giants such as Google, Reddit and Wikipedia acted in protest in an attempt to show how overreaching the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) are by censoring themselves...

• IP: The confusing intersection of trademarks and search engine optimization

  By Douglas R. Wolf, Anderson Duff  |  January 17, 2012

  Last December, a Superior Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, an educational software company, the Tiananmen Square student protests and a documentary film company converged on the Internet.

• IP: The 2011 trademark report

  By Douglas R. Wolf, Christina M. Licursi  |  January 3, 2012

  2011 was a very active year in the world of trademarks. Notably, applications for new trademarks increased over 6 percent in the last year.

• IP: Copyrights used to stop grey market goods—the good and the bad

  By Douglas R. Wolf, Anderson Duff  |  December 20, 2011

  Creating effective tools to stop the importation of grey market goods has been a challenge for property owners.