When E-Filing Goes Wrong: How to Protect Your Trade Secrets in the Event of...
It is frightening to think that valuable corporate trade secrets could be lost with the click of a mouse. But as electronic court filing becomes increasingly prevalent, the risk of inadvertent...
View Article“Holy copyright law, Batman!”Court affirms Batmobile is copyrightable
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed that the Batmobile is copyrightable and that an individual who made and sold replicas of it is liable for infringement. The post “Holy copyright law,...
View ArticleThe final curtain in the GOLDBEAR saga
Wrong comparison for this caseHaribo's suit against Lindt's golden chocolate bear has provided the trade mark community with a lot to digest (see IPKat posts here, here and here). The premise is...
View ArticleThe Term TIFFANY Is Not Generic For A Ring Setting
This blog post is a follow-up to our post entitled, Has One Of Tiffany And Company’s Trademarks Become Generic? posted on February 14, 2014. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New...
View ArticleMark Your Calendar: The Auction Date Has Been Set
The FCBA’s Annual Charity Auction, that is. If you’re going to be in Washington on November 5, be sure to clear your evening schedule. That’s the night of this year’s Annual Charity Auction hosted by...
View ArticleIndiana Copyright Litigation: Latitude 360 Indianapolis Sued for Copyright...
Jacksonville, Florida - A copyright lawyer for Universal Music Corp., WB Music Corp., EMI April Music, Inc., Bovina Music, Inc., and B.I.G. Poppa Music, all members of the American Society of...
View ArticleThe FDA Takes the Kardashian Endorsement Machine to Task
When Kim Kardashian speaks, the FDA listens. Or, more precisely, when Kardashian, who has 46.8 million followers on Instagram, posts an enthusiastic endorsement—and advertisement—on the social media...
View ArticleYogi Berra Suing Over Yogi Bear? Take It With a Grin of Salt
Time to debunk a myth while showing the baseball star's legal connection to 'Sex and the City.'read more
View ArticleDean Baker's piece on 23 Sept 2015 in the New York Times on pharma patents
An op-ed by Dean Baker in the New York Times begins:The United States stands out among wealthy countries in that we give drug companies patent monopolies on drugs that are essential for people’s health...
View ArticleThermometer patent wars
Related to a ruling on MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT OF NONINFRINGEMENT, Exergen v. Kaz, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 117770As to "intended purpose" vs. substantive claim limitation:The facts of this case lend...
View ArticleMarshall jury finds for defendants in ContentGuard patent trial
Following a two week trial in Judge Rodney Gilstrap's court, a Marshall jury returned a noninfringement verdict in favor of Defendants Google and Samsung in the ContentGuard trial this evening.
View ArticleWants to Register Book With Antique Glass Negatives
Dear Rich: I have been collecting interesting antique glass negatives. Some I restored, others I changed artistically. I plan on writing a book of Haiku poetry and using the images from the glass...
View ArticleOur Broken Patent System at Work: Patent Owner Insists the “Integers” Do Not...
Patent trolls are a tax on innovation. The classic troll model doesn’t include transferring technology to create new products. Rather, trolls identify operating companies and demand payment for what...
View ArticleGrieving Parents (Still) Can’t Sue Topix For Son’s Oxy Overdose–Witkoff v....
Photo credit: enameled house number two hundred and thirty // ShutterStockIs it possible to find illegal drugs using the Internet? Sure. But when illegal drug transactions occur, or worse, the drugs...
View ArticleObama administration explored backdoors for bypassing smartphone crypto
An Obama Administration working group considered four backdoors that tech companies could adopt to allow government investigators to decipher encrypted communications stored on phones of suspected...
View ArticleTaken Offline: New EFF Project Shines Light on Coders and Bloggers Imprisoned...
Activists Targeted by Governments Need Support From Global Digital CommunitySan Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today launched the Offline project, a campaign devoted to digital...
View ArticleQualified Immunity Bars Claims Based on Search of Student’s Facebook Account...
Shutterstock / Alexandru Nika – Color Shot of Some Lockers in a High School MJ was a high school student and cheerleader. On a school trip to a local news station to promote a charitable cause, the...
View ArticleDefendants do not make out well in Shire v. Amneal, et al. in Vyvanse® case
The outcome:Because defendants have failed to raise a genuine issue of materialfact that the asserted claims are obvious, we affirm thedistrict court’s judgment of nonobviousness.Because the district...
View ArticleCAFC tackles preliminary injunction issues in M-I LLC V. FPUSA, LLC
The outcomeFPUSA, LLC, appeals from an order of the districtcourt granting M-I LLC’s motion for a preliminary injunction.The district court enjoined FPUSA from promoting,selling, or renting a system...
View ArticleWhen tattoos get under your skin: film extras face cover-up or getting peeled
This Kat was approached a little while ago with a question about copyright in tattoos. This is a subject that this weblog has touched on before [here, here, here and here, among other places], but...
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