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 admitted to practice before the U.S. Trademark Trials and Appeals Board (TTAB). Areas of expertise: trademark registration, trademark law, copyright registration, copyright law, small business and nonprofit organizations, legal research and writing, appeals and appellate practice.
Syndicated blog: The Cokato Copyright Attorney.
Personal blog: Thomas B James on Medium.com
Cokato lawyer Tom James is also a CLE instructor at Echion CLE.
Books:
E-Commerce Law
Website Law
The History of Custody Law
Articles:
- The Trademark Modernization Act (iLawConnect, January 14, 2022)
- 10 Key Points to Cover in an Employment Contract (Avvo, 2021)
- 10 Essential Legal Steps in Starting a Business (Avvo, 2021)
- “Overruling Rostker v. Goldberg: Toward an Equal Obligation to Register for Selective Service,” Nebraska Law Review (May, 2021)
- “Sales and Use Tax Nexus: The Way Forward for Legislation,” Mitchell-Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy & Practice, vol. 41, no. 1 (2020).
- “Assisted Reproduction: Reforming State Statutes After Obergefell v. Hodges and Pavan v. Smith,” University of Maryland Law Journalof Race, Religion, Gender & Class, vol. 19 (2020)
- “Protecting Copyrights in Professional and Academic Writing,” LinkedIn.com (2020)
- “Copyright Enforcement: Time to Abolish the Pre-Litigation Registration Requirement,” Illinois Law Review (Fall, 2019)
- “E-Commerce Sales Taxes: What Your Online Business Needs to Know,” AllBusiness.com (June 17, 2019)
- “Use Tax Nexus: The Illusory Utility of Volume Thresholds,” Tax Notes – State (April 29, 2019). Cokato attorney Thomas James
Blog posts:
- The Internet Archive Lawsuit, July 21, 2022
- Dobbs: What Happened and What It Means, June 26, 2022
- "The" a Registered Trademark Now, June 23, 2022
- Copyright Small Claims Court Opens, June 16, 2022
- What to Know About the New Copyright Claims Board, June 8, 2022
- Copyright Claims Board Begins Soon, June 6, 2022
- 13 Sizzling Hot Logical Fallacies, May 30, 2022
- AI Can Create But Is It Art? May 25, 2022
- Copyright Claims Board Update, May 5, 2022
- Trauma-Informed Law Practices, April 15, 2022
- Free Speech, March 27, 2022
- For Whom the Za Tolls, March 23, 2022
- Top o' the Blarney to Ya, March 17, 2022
- Newly Public Domain Works, March 8, 2022
- Unicolors v. H&M Hennes v. Mauritz, February 24, 2022
- Digital Tokens and Trademarks, February 19, 2022
- NFTs and Copyrights, February 10, 2022
- No Trademark Registration .sucks, February 3, 2022
- Compulsory E-Book Licensing, January 27, 2022
- Dune It Wrong, January 21, 2022
- The Trademark Modernization Act, January 12, 2022
- The Top Copyright Cases of 2021, December 23, 2021
- Diversifying Copyrights, December 9, 2021
- Copyright as Killjoy: Can You Be Sued for Sharing a Joke? December 7, 2021
- Sales and Use Tax Nexus, November 27, 2021
- Corbello v. Valli, November 20, 2021
Courses
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)
Trademark Law: Key Concepts
See also the Courses page at the Tom James Law Office website..
