BUBBLE GENIUS LLC v. Smith, CD Cal – Personal Jurisdiction
BUBBLE GENIUS LLC v. Smith, Dist. Court, CD California 2015 – Google Scholar: CD Cal declines to exercise personal jurisdiction over Queens, NY business that allegedly ships into California but has no...
View ArticleIs Canada Set to Cave on Copyright Term Extension in the TPP?
The following is a guest post from Michael Geist, law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...
View ArticleUpdate: Media Bureau Suspends Deadlines for Comments on Proposed Reservation...
Last month we reported on the Commission’s proposal to preserve vacant UHF TV channel space in every geographic area of the country for use by unlicensed TV white space devices and wireless...
View ArticleHulk Hogan Blames Gawker for N-Word Leak, Calls for Investigation
Gawker "had very few options remaining to save their way of life," asserts Hogan in an emergency motion to conduct an investigation.read more
View ArticleGoogle continues to march forward on autonomous vehicle development
Self-driving cars were also the focus of a couple of utility patents we discovered during our most recent survey of Google’s technological innovations. A system for switching a vehicle in and out of a...
View ArticleNSA Tries to Blame Privacy Advocates for Keeping Americans' Telephone...
USA Freedom requires the NSA to stop collecting our telephone records. An open question when the law passed was what should happen to the mountain of records the NSA has already collected. Will the...
View ArticleKentucky man shoots down drone hovering over his backyard
The way William Merideth sees it, it’s pretty clear-cut: a drone flying over his backyard was a well-defined invasion of privacy, analogous to a physical trespassing. Not knowing who owned it, the...
View ArticleWarner lawyers: 1922 songbook with “Happy Birthday” lyrics wasn’t “authorized”
The company that claims to own "Happy Birthday" shot back yesterday at what has been described as "smoking gun" evidence that the world's most famous song is not copyrighted. Lawyers for a filmmaker...
View ArticleCopyright Office Extends Period for Public Comment on Mass Digitization Pilot...
The U.S. Copyright Office has extended the deadline to submit written comments in response to its June 9, 2015, Notice of Inquiry regarding a proposed mass digitization “pilot program” for certain...
View Article500 and counting: websites blocked by order of UK courts
People write about court orders that require internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to websites that contain or offer unlawful content; they praise them, they criticise the presence or...
View ArticleStupid Patent of the Month: Do It With A Computer
Recently, a company called Tzu Technologies, LLC began suing makers of sex toys for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,368,268. This resulted in more than a few news stories (and probably a few snickers...
View ArticleTrademark Registration Workshop for Bloggers
The Anxious Type by JD Hancock from Flickr (Creative Commons License) I’ve been on my soapbox for a while about the importance of registering your trademark if you have a blog. Even if your following...
View ArticleFormer H&M General Counsel and Anthony Lupo Discuss the Multinational...
In this episode of Fashion Counsel, partner Anthony Lupo talks with Hank Rouda, Former General Counsel - North America at H&M, about the brand’s scalability, the importance of 5th Avenue, growth...
View ArticleSeeking the AntiCommons
Interesting historical look at patent-pools and ‘transaction entrepreneurs’ by USC law professor Jonathan Barnet leads him to the conclusion that the “anti-commons” concerns in the patent context don’t...
View ArticleSan Diego and Salt Lake Battle for Comic Con Trademark
IPNews® - The trademark battle between San Diego Comic-Con and Salt Lake Comic Con is set to go to Federal Court. San Diego Comic-Con sued Salt Lake Comic Con on the grounds that the two names were too...
View ArticleSmith & Nephew seek to go to the Supreme Court and EPO proceedings...
This Kat does not routinely comment on procedural judgments, but the IPKat has reported so extensively on the ongoing dispute between Smith & Nephew and Convatec, and this case is so fascinating,...
View ArticleRapper and Mogul 50 Cent Files for Bankruptcy
50 Cent’s moniker has ceased being figurative— the rapper and business mogul has filed for bankruptcy in Connecticut’s Bankruptcy Court.Curtis James Jackson III, known by his stage name “50 Cent” or...
View ArticleSenator McCain says U.S. national security depends on access to innovation
Senator McCain's remarks related to defense acquisition reform generally, but more specifically related to the need for the Department of Defense to streamline acquisition of new, innovative...
View ArticleWas Philadelphia’s Erasure of Cosby Mural Illegal?
Nicholas O’Donnell explains, Few things have brought consensus recently more than the revulsion over the allegations against comedian Bill Cosby, a Philadelphia native. Yet in a desire to distance...
View ArticleRead This: USPTO’s New Examination Guidelines Subject Matter Eligibility...
By Dennis Crouch The Supreme Court’s decisions in Alice Corp v. CLS Bank and Mayo v. Prometheus serve as dramatic turning points in the conventional wisdom of subject matter eligibility. Inventions...
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