Thomas James, Cokato Minnesota attorney at the Law Office of Tom James. 25+ years of experience.
Admitted to practice in Minnesota, the Federal and 8th Circuit Courts of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Also authorized to represent clients nationwide before the U.S. Trademark Trials and Appeals Board (TTAB), the Copyright Claims Board (CCB), and in processing trademark and copyright applications for federal registration. Areas of expertise: trademark registration, trademark law, copyright registration, copyright law, small business and nonprofit organizations, legal research and writing. Representative case: Hansen v. Todnem (Minnesota Supreme Court.)
Memberships:
Syndicated blog: The Cokato Copyright Attorney.
Non-IP blog: Thomas B James on Medium.com
ScoopIt: Legal News and Updates
Cokato lawyer Tom James is also a CLE instructor at Echion CLE.
Minnesota attorney Thomas James has TEFL/TESOL, TEYL and CTBE (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Teacher of English to Young Learners, and Teacher of Business English) certifications.
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Courses
Joint Custody and Equal Shared Parenting Time (CLE)
Trademark Searches (CLE)
Protecting Trademarks and Names
Trauma-Informed Practices for Attorneys
Representing Relatives in Post-Permanency Proceedings
The New Copyright Small Claims Court (for Non-Attorneys)
The New Copyright Small Claims Court CLE (CLE
Registering Music Copyrights (for Non-IP Attorneys) (CLE)
Child Sex Abuse Claims: Statutes of Limitations and Revival Laws (CLE)
Elimination of Bias; Helping Male Survivors of Childhood Sex Crimes (CLE)
The Gender Paradigm in Family Court (CLE)
See also the Courses page at the Tom James Law Office website..
Other profiles:
I will be presenting an overview of current state statutes addressing joint custody and/or equal shared parenting, as part of a 90-minute CLE webinar on "Joint Custody and Equal Shared Parenting: Impact and Outcomes," on October 24, 2024 at 11:00 am CDT (Video replay on November 8, 2024 at 12:00 noon CDT.)
I will be co-presenting, with Matt Kulseth, a one-hour CLE webinar called "IP Law for Non-IP Attorneys" on July 6, 2023, at 11:30 a.m. CDT (8:30 am AKDT; 9:30 PDT; 10:30 MDT, 12:30 EDT). This is a one-hour live webinar that will provide attorneys who do not normally practice intellectual property law an overview and introduction to the field. The focus will be on copyright and trademark law. Attendees will receive a pdf file containing the newly released book "IP Law for Non-IP Attorneys (2023, 172 pages). It has been approved for 1.0 Standard CLE credit based on a 60-minute hour by the Minnesota Board of Continuing Legal Education. Credit may be claimed in many other jurisdictions. Visit the EchionCLE website for more information.
Words to Retire in 2023: My list of annoying, misused and overused words and phrases to stop using:
The Copyright Claims Board has issued its first determinations, one a settlement and the other a determination on the merits. You can find a writeup of these cases at The Cokato Copyright Attorney: The Law Blog of Thomas B. James
Scamming job hunters is the latest identity theft fad. Thomas James Minnesota attorney has written an article about it: Job Search Scam Red Flags.
"The Internet Archive Lawsuit" In this article (writing as Thomas James, the Cokato Copyright Attorney), I discuss the pending case of Hachette Book Group v. Internet Archive, the federal court case that pushes the boundary between digital fair use and "digital piracy on an industrial scale."
I will be presenting a video replay of "The New Copyright Small Claims Court" CLE on July 13, 2022. 2 CLE credits in Minnesota and other states. Visit the course page for more information.
My latest article, "Unicolors v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz," posted to The Cokato Copyright Attorney: The Law Blog of Attorney Thomas James on February 24, 2022.
My article, "NFTs and Copyright" is now online in my syndicated blog, "The Cokato Copyright Attorney" (Byline: Thomas James). In this article, I explain what non-fungible tokens are and how copyright law applies (or doesn't apply) to them.
