When the correct "IP lawyer response" does not play well
Alfred Valrie made a suggestion to AT&T. NBC News mentioned what happened next: Instead of a simple "thank you for your suggestions" reply, Valrie instead got a letter from AT&T's Thomas A....
View Article"Poster child for hindsight reasoning"
Judge Lourie's text in Otsuka v. Sandoz, 678 F.3d 1280 :In summary, the district court's careful analysis exposed the Defendants' obviousness case for what it was—a poster child for impermissible...
View ArticleA Rogue in Fact and Fiction: The Wolf of Wall Street Suit
A recent New York case, Greene v. Paramount Pictures Corp., arising from the Martin Scorsese film “The Wolf of Wall Street,” discusses a nuance in defamation law known as libel by fiction. This claim...
View ArticleThird Circuit to the City of New York: Being Muslim is not Reasonable...
Being Muslim can’t be the basis for law enforcement surveillance. That was the message from the Third Circuit on Tuesday when it told the plaintiffs in Hassan v. The City of New York that their lawsuit...
View ArticleBiometrics: Facebook Files Motion to Dismiss Privacy Suit over Facial...
As discussed in a previous post on facial recognition technology, a putative class action has been filed against Facebook over the collection of “faceprints” for its online photo tagging function, Tag...
View ArticleEntertainment Distributors’ Push For Site-Blocking Power Get More Extreme
Major entertainment companies are asking the courts for more and more power over the basic operation of the Internet. On Tuesday, the major U.S. record labels filed suit against a Florida startup...
View Article“Big Pimpin'” Trial: Jay Z Song Stirs International Copyright Law Debate
Exactly how does the concept of "moral rights" cover — or not cover — the rapper's 1999 chart-topper?read more
View ArticleUS Patent Application Filings for FY 2015
By Jason Rantanen The USPTO recently released the data on the number of patent applications filed in Fiscal Year 2015 via its Data Visualization Center (i.e.: the Dashboard) page. Based on this data,...
View ArticleAMD announces quarterly loss of $197 million, its fourth straight loss
(credit: Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock) On Thursday, the ever-struggling AMD announced its fourth straight quarterly loss—at $197 million—putting total losses for the first nine months of 2015 at $557...
View ArticlePatent troll that pounded Google for $85 million beaten in round two
SimpleAir's website suggests it has something to do with computers, innovation, and fingers. (credit: SimpleAir) SimpleAir is a patent-licensing company owned by John Payne, an Orange County Internet...
View ArticleBREAKING: 2nd Circuit confirms that Google Books Library Project is fair use
As IPKat readers may remember, since 2004 Google has scanned more than 20 million books in their entirety (with approximately 93% of books being non-fiction, and the great majority of works being...
View ArticleAppeals court rules that Google book-scanning is fair use
A woman studies at the Cecil H. Green Library on the Stanford University Campus in 2004. Libraries at Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the New York Public Library and the University of...
View ArticleAppeals court deems Google Books 'fair use' but standard helps...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has just published its appellate opinion in the Google Books case.Early last year I wrote that I had initially been rather skeptical of...
View ArticleFox Looks to End $10 Million Lawsuit Alleging 'Empire' Ripped Off...
The producers are being sued by an author who says he met with Terrence Howard for three hours before the hip-hop soap opera came out.read more
View ArticleFactor four: the most interesting part of the Google Books decision
Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., No. 13-4829-cv (2d Cir. Oct. 16, 2015)Today's Google Books decision breaks no new ground in terms of transformativeness. It is perhaps most interesting in its finessing...
View ArticleUS charges hacker with providing ISIL info on US military personnel
(credit: YouTube) The US government has arrested and charged the person authorities described as the head of an overseas Internet hacking collective called the Kosova Hacker's Security. The suspect, a...
View ArticleFederal Circuit Denies En Banc Petition in Amgen v. Sandoz
By Kevin E. Noonan -- The Federal Circuit today denied the petitions for rehearing by the panel and rehearing by the en banc Court filed by both parties in Amgen v. Sandoz. Amgen had petitioned for...
View ArticleDoes Trump Own “Make America Great Again?”
As I frequently mention in my articles, trademark law is a much more prevalent part of the average person’s life than they realize. We are surrounded by the trademarks of numerous companies every time...
View ArticleViacom, Cablevision Settle Antitrust Lawsuit Over Channel Bundling
Cablevision alleged that the owner of MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central tied these "must-have networks" with lesser ones.read more
View ArticleIndiana Trademark Law: Trademark Plaintiff Abused Legal Process; Trademark...
Indianapolis, Indiana - In the trademark lawsuit between of Plaintiff Wine & Canvas Development, LLC ("WNC") and Defendants Christopher Muylle, Theodore Weisser, YN Canvas CA, LLC and Weisser...
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