Forcing suspects to reveal phone passwords is unconstitutional, court says
The Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination would be breached if two insider trading suspects were forced to turn over the passcodes of their locked mobile phones to the Securities...
View ArticleWeinstein Co. Resolves Profits Lawsuit Over 'The Reader'
Bernard Schlink claimed he hadn't been paid profits from the 2008 film based on his book.read more
View ArticleIndiana Copyright Law: Court Will Not Reconsider Dismissal of Pro Se...
Indianapolis, Indiana - The Southern District of Indiana denied Plaintiff Larry Philpot's motion to reconsider the dismissal of his 2014 lawsuit alleging copyright infringement. Acting as his own...
View ArticleTo the Batmobile! Copyright Saves the Day in Gotham City
Mark Towle owns Gotham Garage, which manufactures and sells replicas of automobiles featured in famous motion pictures and television programs. Gotham Garage specifically sold fully constructed cars as...
View ArticleTaken Offline: Years in Prison for a Love of Technology
Writing a letter with a pen has an odd feeling in a digital age. You pick your words carefully, without a delete key. You urge your hands to recall their best handwriting. You ponder about forms of...
View ArticleTo the Batmobile! Copyright Saves the Day in Gotham City
Mark Towle owns Gotham Garage, which manufactures and sells replicas of automobiles featured in famous motion pictures and television programs. Gotham Garage specifically sold fully constructed cars as...
View ArticleThe Difficulty of Measuring the Impact of Patent Law on Innovation
I'm teaching an international and comparative patent law seminar this fall, and I had my students read pages 80–84 of my Patent Experimentalism article to give them a sense of the difficulty evaluating...
View ArticleShire Wins Vyvanse Case, but Supplier Escapes Liability
Shire LLC v. Amneal Pharma, et al. (Fed. Cir. 2015) This ANDA patent litigation arose after the defendants filed Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDAs) with the FDA requesting permission to make and...
View ArticleIowa Intellectual Property Law Association Annual Conference at the Iowa...
By Jason Rantanen Next Friday, October 2, the Iowa Intellectual Property Law Association will hold its annual conference. This year’s conference is being held at the Boyd Law Building at the...
View ArticleDonald Trump unleashes trademark-fury on critic’s website
(credit: StopTrump.us) Perhaps he was jealous that Ben Carson was getting all the attention for bogus trademark claims? Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wants to stop StopTrump.us, a...
View ArticleGoogle Scholar Offers Case Research for the Masses
This post about Google Scholar is a bit off-topic, discussing free online legal research, which is not necessarily a startup issue. However, this information is based on my answer to a Quora question...
View ArticleSegway Files Patent Lawsuit Over Hands-Free Scooter
IPNews® - Segway filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Inventist over its Solowheel and Hovertrax products, claiming they violate its patents on a personal transporter with a balance monitor....
View ArticleOvercoming obstacles when enforcing your descriptive brand in the UK and rest...
We've all been there. The Marketing team comes up with a shortlist of branding ideas for the latest product or service – and at the top of the list is a brand which is descriptive. As trade mark...
View ArticleHappy Not-Copyrighted Birthday
A couple days back, District Judge George H. King agreed that the song "Happy Birthday to You" - specifically the lyrics of the song - were not copyrighted. It's been clear for some time that the...
View ArticleNotice and notice failure at BU: panel 1
Graeme Dinwoodie – Trademarks and Commercial Reality: registration systems/use systems; Industrial policy/consumer protection and registered/unregistered affect notice, but not sure how much compared...
View ArticleRoca Labs agonistes
FTC clobbers Roca Labs, the terrible weight-loss company that banned negative reviews http://t.co/5uPWVza6xZ pic.twitter.com/5cMHkRvRJW — Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) September 25, 2015
View ArticleVolkswagen Caught Equipping 11 Million Cars with Software to Cheat Emission...
On Friday, September 18, 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) sent a Notice of Violation to Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (“Volkswagen”) stating that, in its ongoing investigation, the...
View ArticleMassive patent troll suit seeks to tax USB hubs at Wal-Mart, Amazon, Best Buy
(credit: Clive Darra) A shell company with a patent linked to Intellectual Ventures, the world's biggest patent-holding company, has quietly filed a new lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas against...
View ArticleReport: Feds investigating if Google’s Android violates antitrust rules
(credit: Photograph by Romain Guy) Over two years after the Federal Trade Commission decided not to bring antitrust charges against Google over its search business, a new report suggests that the...
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