Patent troll VirnetX wants jury to give it a half-billion dollars of Apple’s...
(credit: Erik Mörner) A patent trial has just kicked off in the patent hotspot of East Texas, and it's a big one. VirnetX, a patent-holding company that says it owns wide-ranging rights to Virtual...
View ArticleEdison as a patent troll, re-visited in 2016
In 2006, LBE published the article Edison as a Patent Troll, or Where is California Going in Stem Cell Research? . At the time, the Wall Street Journal had recently asserted:[that U.S. patent law is]...
View ArticleMan arrested, jailed for filming cop settles lawsuit and gets $72,500
George Thompson settles a federal civil rights lawsuit for $72,500 after being arrested for filming the police. (credit: YouTube) A Massachusetts man charged with wiretapping in 2014 for filming a...
View ArticleIndiana Trademark Litigation: Texas Roadhouse v. Texas Corral Litigation...
Hammond, Indiana - Trademark litigation commenced in the Western District of Michigan in 2013 was transferred to the Northern District of Indiana yesterday. This federal lawsuit, filed by trademark...
View ArticleConferencia Marketing Legal para la AMMJE capitulo León de SELCO ®
Cordial invitación Conferencia Marketing Legal Impartida por una de nuestras expertas en la materia, la Lic. Hugette Rodríguez Hernández. 28 de Enero 2016 Blvd Rio Mayo 5611 Col. Colinas de...
View ArticleAcorda Therapeutics Inc. and Par Pharmaceutical Inc. settle over Ampyra drug...
BNA reported:Under a consent judgment entered in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware Jan. 21, Par agreed that the four Acorda patents at issue were valid and enforceable and that its...
View ArticleOrville Wright documents to be auctioned
Fox News covered the coming auction of letters of relevance to the aviation invention of the Wright Brothers.A 1916 patent transfer document for Wright’s invention of the airplane and one in which the...
View ArticleRecord Labels Accuse MP3Tunes Founder of Separating From Wife to Hide Assets
Michael Robertson is facing a $15.8 million judgment for infringing song copyrights.read more
View ArticleRelativity Says Creditors Have Voted to Accept Chapter 11 Reorg Plan
Ryan Kavanaugh's studio will be looking to emerge from bankruptcy next week.read more
View ArticleEU Publishes Text of Compromise Trade Secrets Directive for Approval by...
As we reported last month in this blog, in December the European Council and representatives of the European Parliament reached a “provisional agreement” on the European Commission’s proposed Directive...
View ArticleThe Case of the Missing Comma: Why Congress Must Fix FOIA’s Law Enforcement...
As Congress considers big changes to the Freedom of Information Act, a court’s decision on Monday underscores how some of the best ways to fix the ailing transparency statute are really small—like...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Resale Royalty Act Explained
The saga of litigation over the scope of the California Resale Royalty Act (CA Civil Code § 986) has come to an end. The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal brought by artists including Chuck...
View ArticleGuilty: Corrupt ex-city official who pushed red-light camera deal convicted
A Redflex camera as seen in Modesto, California. (credit: Cyrus Farivar) On Tuesday, a federal jury in Chicago found a former city transportation official guilty on all 20 counts of mail and wire...
View ArticleDo Bars Really Get Sued for Playing Copyrighted Songs?
It depends. But funny enough I was just mentioning this to my class at SVA yesterday during our conversation on copyright. A national songwriters’ organization sued a handful of bars nationwide this...
View ArticleNY Times Sues Publisher for Using Copyrighted Images
The New York Times is suing a publisher who used thumbnail reproductions of the newspaper’s front pages in a book that attacks the Times war coverage. Here’s what legal scholar Rebecca Tushnet had to...
View ArticleEthics charges filed against DOJ lawyer who exposed Bush-era surveillance
(credit: sdobie) A former Justice Department lawyer is facing legal ethics charges for exposing the President George W. Bush-era surveillance tactics—a leak that earned The New York Times a Pulitzer...
View ArticleU.S. Patent No. 8,558,797: Video game processing apparatus and video game...
U.S. Patent No. 8,558,797: Video game processing apparatus and video game processing programIssued Oct. 15, 2013, to Kabushiki Kaisha Square EnixSummary:The ‘797 patent describes a touch screen input...
View ArticleIsrael’s electric grid hit by “severe” hack attack
Israel experienced a serious hack attack on its electrical grid that officials are still working to repel, the head of the country's energy minister said Tuesday. "The virus was already identified and...
View ArticleWikimedia board official responds to editors: Geshuri is an “excellent...
Arnnon Geshuri, appointed to the Wikimedia Foundation board in January 2016. (credit: Myleen Hollero / Wikimedia Foundation) The newest board member of the Wikimedia Foundation, Arnnon Geshuri, is...
View ArticleNetflix: Ländersperren gegen zahlungswillige Konsumenten
Nutzerinnen und Nutzer von Netflix und anderen Streaming-Diensten leiden häufig unter regionalen Beschränkungen. Viele Filme und Serien sind nicht weltweit verfügbar. In der Folge hat sich ein Markt...
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