Taylor Swift Sued for Trademark Infringement
IPNews® - Blue Sphere, Inc. has sued Taylor Swift for using the trademark LUCKY 13 in relation to apparel among other goods. Blue Sphere owns many LUCKY 13 trademarks and claims that Swift may have...
View ArticleHacking Team may not have had a backdoor, but it could kill client installs
In a rare press release issued Wednesday morning, Hacking Team, the embattled Italian surveillance software vendor, reiterated that it did not and does not have a "backdoor" into its clients’...
View Article'The Black Dahlia' Producers Sue Nu Image Claiming Unpaid Profits
Moshe Diamant and Rudy Cohen's lawsuit is the latest in several years to target the company's accounting.read more
View ArticleIndiana Patent Litigation: Lilly Adds Mylan to List of Defendants Accused of...
Indianapolis, Indiana - An Indiana patent attorney for Eli Lilly and Company of Indianapolis, Indiana sued in the Southern District of Indiana alleging that Mylan Laboratories Limited of Hyderabad,...
View ArticleTreason Charges Against German Blog Netzpolitik.org are an Attack on the Free...
German domestic security service has pressed charges of treason against Netzpolitik.org, one of Germany’s most influential digital rights blogs, as a result of two articles it posted earlier this year....
View ArticleFive years after Verizon abandoned FiOS build, city still seeking fiber
Alexandria, Virginia is trying to find a partner to build a citywide fiber network to serve its 150,000 residents and 15,000 businesses. But the city eight miles outside Washington, DC could already...
View ArticleISHTIP at Penn, part 3
Session 1 | Ellen Goodman (Rutgers), Moderator Access and Development: The History of ‘Development’ and WIPOSara Bannerman (McMaster University)Commentator | Christopher S. Yoo (University of...
View ArticleSheriff who battled Craigslist takes on Backpage’s sex ads
When it comes to battling prostitution and child exploitation, the sheriff for the nation's second-largest county is walking tall and carrying a big stick. That's why Illinois, Cook County Sheriff...
View ArticleTrade secrets and FOIA
From Dunlap Coddington:A trade secret plaintiff clearly needs to establish both elements, but I’d like to discuss the second element, i.e., reasonable efforts to maintain secrecy. Specifically, I’d...
View ArticleFacebook’s legal team goes after defunct Yale class project
A school project created by two Yale undergraduates in 2011 has unexpectedly become a target of Facebook's legal team. The social networking giant has demanded that the two developers, Bay Gross and...
View ArticleThe FCC TCPA Order: What Does My Business Need To Know?
his Post Was Co-Authored by Partner, Justine Gottshall and Counsel, Brian Schaller The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) passed its TCPA Omnibus Declaratory Ruling and Order (“Order”) regarding...
View ArticleWhat Constitutes "Publication" Under Copyright Law?
Dear Rich: I wrote an “In Remembrance” booklet when a family member passed away. About 20 copies of the booklet were given to family, friends and neighbors. The booklet didn’t even have my name on it...
View ArticleOracle seeks to supplement Java copyright complaint against Google: 40...
On the eve of a status report requested by Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California in the Oracle v. Google remand proceedings, Oracle has shown once again that, as I've been saying...
View ArticleSensor Based Motion Tracking System Ineligible under Section 101
Thales Visionix v. USA and Elbit Systems (Ct. Fed. Clm. 2015). Suing the government is always an interesting proposition because it is government-employed judges who decide whether or not the...
View ArticleNew patent group threatens to derail 4K HEVC video streaming
A new industry group called HEVC Advance is threatening to demand royalties for the new HEVC video codec that could halve the bandwidth required for streaming online video or offer higher resolutions...
View Article"Don't Stop the Dance"[*] -- The Dissents-in-Part from Amgen...
By Andrew Williams -- As we have been reporting this week, the Federal Circuit handed down its decision in Amgen Inc. v. Sandoz Inc. -- a case of first impression relating to the Biologics Price...
View ArticleOracle and Google both propose Android-Java trial dates in the spring of 2016
Late on Thursday by local California time, Oracle and Google filed a joint status report (though the order had not explicitly required them to file jointly). As always, they disagree on important...
View ArticleThe CopyKat dips a paw into the fast flowing stream
In China. the the National Copyright Administration has updated its policies on music streaming, updating saying online streaming services must stop providing unlicensed music to users. Service...
View ArticleNational Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion Urges Firms To...
Lagos, Nigeria, July 24, 2015 — Yesterday, while speaking with reporters in Lagos, Mr Lucky Nwosa, a deputy director with the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) urged...
View ArticleDo Hierarchy and Concentration Benefit Women Lawyers?
Ronit Dinovitzer and John Hagan, Hierarchical Structure and Gender Dissimilarity in American Legal Labor Markets, 92 Social Forces (2014). Sida Liu After three decades of research on gender inequality...
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