Paul W. Garrity

Intellectual Property

Paul W. Garrity, Tyler E. Baker | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The U.S. Supreme Court last month heard argument in Pom Wonderful, LLC v. The Coca-Cola Company, Docket No. 12-761, the outcome of which is likely to have significant and far-reaching effect in the realm of food and beverage labeling, and potentially have impact extending to other industries...

Intellectual Property

Paul W. Garrity, Amanda Zablocki | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

False patent marking claims under 35 U.S.C. § 292, claims that unpatented products or services have been mislabeled, have been the scourge of corporate counsel for the past two years. Recent rulings from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the federal appeals court with...

Paul W. Garrity | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Use of social media websites - sites such as Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn - has grown dramatically over the past two years. According to the Pew Research Center, 46 percent of American adults who use the Internet logged onto a social networking site in 2009, which is up from 8 percent in 2005....

Paul W. Garrity | Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Search engine advertising, the placement of advertising above, around and sometimes within the search results produced by Internet search engines (such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN), is one of the fastest growing advertising mediums in the United States. North American advertisers spent $9.4 billion...