Supreme Court Keeps Brulotte - Post-Expiration Patent Royalties are Still...
Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided a patent-royalty lawsuit, Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment, LLC. The Court, divided 6-3, ruled against Kimble. Stephen Kimble sued Marvel in...
View ArticleThe Crypto Wars Have Gone Global
Recently, Congress heard testimony about whether or not backdoors should be introduced into encryption technologies, a technically problematic proposal that would fundamentally weaken the security of...
View ArticleCAFC addresses analogous art in Circuit Check v. QXQ
In Circuit Check v. QXQ, the jury had found the claims of the patentof Circuit Check not invalid as obvious, the district court judge granted judgment as a matter of lawthat the claims were obvious and...
View ArticleBill Cosby's "Media Blitz," "Narcissistic View"...
The attorney for Andrea Constand tells the judge that confidentiality is "unenforceable" and bemoans double standards.read more
View ArticleHollywood Law Hires: Latham & Watkins' Entertainment Group Grows...
Plus a dealmaker returning to Greenberg Glusker and a labor attorney joining Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp.read more
View ArticlePublic Interest Groups and Over a Thousand Users Call on the Copyright Office...
Under the copyright term extensions we've seen in leaked drafts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the quarter of a billion people living in six of the negotiating countries could lose access to...
View ArticleU.S. Patent No. 7,589,742: Random map generation in a strategy video game
U.S. Patent No. 7,589,742: Random map generation in a strategy video gameIssued Sep. 15, 2009, to MicrosoftSummary:The ‘742 patent seeks to make video games more interested by describing a random map...
View ArticleU.S. Copyright Office proposes changes to Copyright Act
Recently, the United States Copyright Office issued a report regarding proposed changes to the Copyright Act in relation to Orphan Works and Mass Digitization.[1] The term Orphan Works refers to works...
View ArticleStop CISA Week of Action: EFF Joins Over 60 Organizations and Companies...
EFF joined over 68 security experts, tech companies, and civil society organizations urging President Obama to threaten to veto the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA, S. 754) as part of our...
View ArticleInfringement Expert Disqualified Due To Prior Retention By Opposing Party
In Mobile Telecomm's Technologies, LLC v. LG Elec's Mobilecomm USA, Inc., 2:13cv947 (7/22/15) the defendant moved to disqualify the plaintiffs infringement expert, noting that the expert had been...
View ArticleHow the way you type can shatter anonymity—even on Tor
Security researchers have refined a long-theoretical profiling technique into a highly practical attack that poses a threat to Tor users and anyone else who wants to shield their identity online. The...
View ArticleHot Off the Press: The July/August Issue of Our Socially Aware Newsletter Is...
The latest issue of our Socially Aware newsletter is now available here. In this issue of Socially Aware, our Burton Award-winning guide to the law and business of social media, we we present a “grand...
View ArticleDo I Lose All Rights When I Blog?
Dear Rich, I was recently accepted as a writer for a major national syndicate of blogs covering sports teams. This company does not have a physically-signed document per article as is traditional with...
View ArticleYou wouldn't steal a car: Criminalisation of IP
With recent and possible changes to IP crime laws, your Katonomist turns her third eyelid to criminalisation and the economics of crime. Criminalisation throws up a number of questions. Do existing...
View Article4th Circuit denies rehearing in In re GNC
:(If this ruling sticks and is actually applied in Lanham Act cases (something of which I am uncertain), then the resulting circuit split would probably justify Supreme Court review, given the Court's...
View ArticleConsent Judgment Precluding Future Infringement Does Not Preclude Subsequent...
The court deferred ruling on defendants' motion to dismiss plaintiff's infringement action based on a prior consent judgment and a parallel contempt proceeding. "In order to ensure an orderly and...
View ArticleIs Amazon Liable For IP Violations By Its Marketplace Vendors? (Forbes...
I wonder if trying to educate consumers about fake animal-shaped pillowcases just makes consumers more interested in finding the cheaper option?Animal-shaped pillows are cute and fluffy, except when...
View ArticleSection 285 Motion Denied
Following the Supreme Court's opinion in Octane Fitness changing the standard for award of attorneys fees under Section 285 in patent cases, 285 motions have become significantly more prevalent,...
View ArticleAvi Lerner Goes to War With Union Over "No Residuals" Promise
A new lawsuit comes after Nu Image almost went to trial earlier this year, bringing several other big name indie producers in tow.read more
View ArticleCalifornia Dreamin’: Golden State Considers New Privacy Legislation
California has everything: big cities, small towns, tall mountains, dry deserts, farms, factories, miners, fishermen, surfers, hipsters, yuppies, startups, and people of all walks of life. You can look...
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