Franchising is a growing business model in the U.S. As franchising grows, however, franchisors can compete with their franchisees over the right to goodwill generated by the franchisee. I have recently completed a dissertation in Temple’s doctoral program that examines legal mechanisms to address expropriation of goodwill generated by franchisees, and proposes an alternative solution.
In ABC v. Aereo, the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, held that Aereo, Inc.’s subscription service – which gave subscribers access over the Internet to a miniature TV antenna and a miniature DVR housed in Aereo’s facility, allowing them to record over-the-air broadcast television signals (like the ones transmitted by your local ABC affiliate)
Harold Kohn, the Philadelphia lawyer who was the architect of the modern-day class action, will be honored in memoriam this fall at Temple Law. On October 9, to mark what would have been Kohn’s 100th birthday, Temple will host a lecture sponsored by Kohn’s eponymous chaired professorship, and delivered by Delaware Chief Justice Leo E.
Increasingly, online merchants, together with brick-and-mortar sellers and data intermediaries, are knitting together mass data collection, the interconnective power of the “Internet of Things” and automated algorithmic pricing and selling with their existing retailing and supply-chain businesses. The result of this coordination is that traditional sales functions such as competitive intelligence gathering and pricing are
Building a business from one person to twenty people was hard. Selling that business while in law school was even harder. Running the business after it was sold to a publicly-held company has been fun, even if it is a challenge as I work toward my degree in Temple Law’s evening division. I started Fame
Cash is a great medium of exchange. It is very efficient. If someone wants to buy a garden gnome at a garden store, there are very few hurdles to the transaction. The store does not require identification and there is no need to pay a transfer fee or monitor a bank account for the funds
Third-year law student Han Gil Lee, former Temple Law Professor N. Jeremi Duru and I recently formed Global Sporting Integration LLC (GSI), a consulting firm specializing in assisting Minor and Major League Baseball (MLB) players from Asian countries successfully transition to the United States. During the 2013 season, approximately 60 Asian-born players competed in MLB
Legal academics are in the business of coming up with new ideas and research results, but it’s not often that a research project in law produces a new technology. That rare brand of lightning has struck the Law School’s Public Health Law Research Program, producing Temple Law’s first technology transfer spin-off and, we hope, changing
Section 251(h) of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”) became effective on August 1, 2013 and is quickly becoming a staple of mergers and acquisitions practice. In certain circumstances, Section 251(h) expedites friendly acquisitions by eliminating the need for a stockholder vote on a second-step merger following consummation of a tender or exchange offer
The “Legal Issues in Strategic Business Planning” course is an excellent opportunity for students who are interested in practicing law in an in-house setting, or in learning generally how to deal with clients. The course is offered in conjunction with the Fox School of Business’s Enterprise Management Consulting Practice (EMC). The EMC program allows Fox