CAFC in Lismont case finds laches applies to inventorship claims
From the decision:This appeal arises from an inventorship dispute betweenHedwig Lismont (Mr. Lismont) and AlexanderBinzel Schweisstechnik GmbH & Co. KG (Binzel-Germany), Abicor...
View ArticleGogo stock drops 27 percent after being hit with lawsuit by American Airlines
(credit: iflyfsx) After sustaining a 27 percent drop in its stock price following a lawsuit filed against it by American Airlines, Gogo issued a short filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission...
View ArticleMassive US-planned cyberattack against Iran went well beyond Stuxnet
(credit: Aurich Lawson) The Stuxnet computer worm that destroyed centrifuges inside Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment site was only one element of a much larger US-prepared cyberattack plan that...
View ArticleU.S. Patent No. 8,523,673: Vocally interactive video game mechanism for...
U.S. Patent No. 8,523,673: Vocally interactive video game mechanism for displaying recorded physical characteristics of a player in a virtual world and in a physical game space via one or more...
View ArticleJudge: Apple must help FBI unlock San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone
(credit: Kārlis Dambrāns) On Tuesday, a federal judge in Riverside, California ordered Apple to help the government unlock and decrypt the iPhone 5C used by Syed Rizwan Farook, who shot up an office...
View ArticleEL VALOR JURÍDICO DE TU MARCA
Por: Lic. José Roberto Garza García. www.promapmx.com Pese a la importancia que representa el hecho de generar un derecho de uso exclusivo y de explotación comercial de una marca, muchos titulares de...
View ArticleThe design-copyright interface: the Italian Supreme Court rules on street...
Can there be a more challenging IP issue than the copyright-design law overlap? Former Guest Kat, Valentina Torelli, has reported on the recent decision by the Supreme Court of Italy in this...
View ArticleAppeals court says Apple’s settlement in e-book price-fixing case can stand
(credit: shiftstigma) A US appeals court on Wednesday upheld the $450 million settlement that Apple agreed to (PDF) in an antitrust lawsuit over e-book price-fixing. After a district court found Apple...
View ArticleSneaky Change to the TPP Drastically Extends Criminal Penalties
When the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was first released in November last year, it included provisions dictating the kinds of penalties that should be available in cases of copyright...
View ArticleNo Love Lost – More Photo Contests with Rights Grabs?
AdoramaPix isn’t happy about our prior blog post, arguing that its “Best Friends Forever” Instagram contest is not a rights grab because “NOTHING here requests a participant to submit a photo.” We...
View ArticleJustin Timberlake, Will.i.am Facing Copyright Suit Over "Damn Girl"
The heir of a Grammy-winning disco artist claims Timberlake's hit "Damn Girl" copied its hook, rhythm, harmony and melody from a 1969 song. read more
View ArticleWhat the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia means for SCOTUS patent jurisprudence
While Justice Scalia served on the Supreme Court for nearly three decades, his contributions to the area of intellectual property law were quite limited. Scalia did famously refer to patents as...
View ArticleWhat the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia means for SCOTUS patent jurisprudence
While Justice Scalia served on the Supreme Court for nearly three decades, his contributions to the area of intellectual property law were quite limited. Scalia did famously refer to patents as...
View ArticleSecure Web loses to Microsoft at CAFC
Secure Web Conference Corporation (“Secure Web”)appeals the district court’s construction of several patentclaim terms in a patent infringement lawsuit it initiatedagainst Microsoft Corporation...
View ArticleWebinar Recap! 2015 National Trade Secret, Non-Compete and Computer Fraud Law...
We are pleased to announce the webinar “2015 National Year in Review: What You Need to Know About the Recent Cases/Developments in Trade Secrets, Non-Compete and Computer Fraud Law” is now available as...
View ArticleThe Chronicle speaks of "A Plague of Plagiarism"
The Chronicle of Higher Education posed a hypothetical on plagiarism:Outside academe, policies and practice may be different. For example, here’s a paragraph that appeared last month in a feature...
View Article17 Seconds #21
Clocktower Law @ Villageworks Earlier in February 2016, and after 15 years in Maynard’s Mill, Clocktower Law moved four miles north (which is “lateral” if you turn the map “sideways”*) to West Acton’s...
View ArticleSwamp Mess - Memory Game for iOS
A student I work with developed this app for iOS, called Swamp Mess. It's a simple memory game, but fun to play. My 2 year old son LOVES it. And the background "music" is bullfrogs, so its much less...
View ArticleSweeping Test of EAS NPT Readiness Slated for February 24
FEMA-organized test to include 22 states, two territories and D.C. Here’s a big CommLawBlog HEADS UP for those of you broadcasting in any of these 25 (count ‘em, 25!) jurisdictions: Alabama, Arkansas,...
View ArticleWhy Tim Cook is right to call court-ordered iPhone hack a “backdoor”
Enlarge (credit: John Karakatsanis) Tuesday's court order compelling Apple to hack the iPhone belonging to a gunman who killed 14 people and injured 22 others has ignited an acrimonious debate. CEO Tim...
View Article