Pop Group LMFAO Not Laughing About New Beer Trademark Dispute
IPNews® - A dispute has arisen between the popular music group LMFAO and a Michigan craft brewery, over the name of one of the brewery’s beers, the LMFAO Stout. Despite the founders of the brewery...
View ArticleIntroduction to Criminal Copyright Infringement - Second Element: Infringement
The second element of a criminal prosecution for copyright infringement requires that the government prove that the defendant infringed upon the holder's rights in its copyrighted intellectual...
View ArticleHey, that’s my beer! I think…
In the bustling craft brew economy brewers are faced with new issues every day. One that recently came to my attention arises when the craft brewery’s brewmaster or head brewer decides to either start...
View ArticleChelsea Manning having troubles with military brig authorities
Chelsea Manning, serving a 35-year term for leaking classified military documents to WikiLeaks, is having some run-ins with the authorities at the military brig at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas....
View ArticleMy browser visited Drudgereport and all I got was this lousy malware
Millions of people visiting drudgereport.com, wunderground.com, and other popular websites were exposed to attacks that can surreptitiously hijack their computers, thanks to maliciously manipulated ads...
View ArticleDespite transparency claims, Etsy ups secrecy and shifts profits overseas
Turns out that messing around with legal (but questionable) Irish tax laws isn’t just for the big corporate types anymore: it even applies to hand-crafted, crunchy-granola online retailers like Etsy....
View ArticleIKEA Repair Program Not Labeled “Recall” By CPSC
On July 22, 2015, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the Swedish consumer products company, IKEA, issued a joint press release to announce a “repair program,” addressing a furniture...
View ArticleTWiL 315: Risa On Demand
Host: Denise HowellGuests: Mark Jaffe, Adam Steinbaugh, Colette Vogele The future of cracking down on revenge-porn, Dr. Luke and his Breakbeat to stand trial, trademarking "Cecil the Lion" for profit...
View ArticleNJ Supreme Court Limits Eligibility for Expungement
If you needed another reason not to break the law, here’s one: Last week, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that expungements are no longer available for individuals with multiple convictions for a...
View ArticleDirect and Indirect Patent Infringement – Evolving Standards under Akamai v....
Though I’m not a litigator, infringement concerns are a primary concern for many of my clients. Those concerns evolve with time. Despite decades of case law, the courts are still developing some of the...
View Article8chan-hosted content disappears from Google searches
Google appears to have taken an unprecedented step in filtering its search results by banning an entire domain—and adding a warning about "suspected child abuse content" to a search for the domain...
View ArticleNo Stay When Inter Partes Review Not Yet Instituted
Where the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) had not yet ruled on a petition for Inter Partes Review (IPR), a U.S. District Court denied a defendant’s motion for a stay pending completion of the...
View ArticleSynthOS generates operating system code for IoT devices, reducing development...
One service available to help IoT device developers more easily create the real-time operating system (RTOS) necessary to run applications on a smart device is SynthOS. Developed by Zeidman...
View ArticleComputer and Internet Updates for 2015-08-14
How P2P child porn offences are investigated, R. v. MacDonald, 2012 NSPC 132 http://t.co/lSAJ6jXYIp -> Amend CASL, Save Small Business of Canada! http://t.co/xVzu8DNi4B -> Liability for P2P file...
View ArticleWill Supreme Court force DHS to divulge secret plan to cut cell service?
The Supreme Court was asked in a petition to force the government to disclose the US clandestine plan to disable cell service during emergencies. The case concerns Standard Operating Procedure 303. A...
View ArticleLawsuit over two-word tweet—“actually yes”—can move ahead, judge finds
A federal judge in Minnesota has allowed a First Amendment and defamation lawsuit filed by a high school student who was suspended over a two-word tweet—“actually yes”—to move forward. The suit was...
View ArticleAmerican consumers increasingly happy with social media but not search engines
The big winner among social media e-businesses in the 2015 consumer index is Pinterest, the personal web cataloguing service headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Its consumer satisfaction index score...
View ArticlePatent Grant Rate by Technology Area
The chart above shows the USPTO patent grant rate across a variety of major technology areas. I apologize for the tightness of the lines, but there are several overall trends that are easy to discern....
View ArticleShow # 240 — Wendell Wallach, author of A Dangerous Master — posted
The barrage begins. Today I’ll be posting four shows from July 2015. Then, because of a pincer attack of classes, my own writing projects and an attempt to remain a husband and father known to his...
View ArticleShow # 241 — Prof. Jason Arnold, author of Secrecy in the Sunshine Era — posted
I’m pleased to post Show # 241, July 17, my interview with Prof. Jason Arnold of Virginia Commonwealth University, author of Secrecy in the Sunshine Era: The Promise and Failures of U.S. Open...
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