The Gray Blog
"A compendium of news articles centered around the parallel market (also known as the gray market) in branded goods and all of the myriad areas of law affected by the parallel market."
Author: Jorge Espinosa practices at Espinosa | Trueba in Miami.
Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • White Collar Crime • Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Trademark Law • International Law • Solo / Small Firm
Recent Posts from The Gray Blog
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PRO-IP Act Passes Senate Slightly Declawed
On Friday the Senate approved passage of the PRO-IP act after stripping out provisions which would have given the department of justice the power and obligation to litigate civil suits on behalf of content owners.…
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection releases mid-year IP seizure numbers
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (”CBP”) has released its mid year intellectual property (”IP”) seizure statistics for 2008. Patterns that are evident from these numbers are a significant increase in value of goods seized per…
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Prallel Trade in Europe
Finding good books on the parallel market is not an easy task. Despite its long and prominent history in US and European legal practice, the parallel market is usually relegated by most writers to a…
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Apple goes after clone maker Psystar
Apple, Inc., manufacturer of the well known line of computers and software, filed suit on July 3 in the federal district court for the northern district of California against Florida company Psystar, Inc. The…
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eBay wins one
After a devastating ruling from a French Court, reported previously in the Gray Blog, and a user revolt over terms of payment, E-Bay has finally received some good news. In a sixty page decision District…
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Cop on payroll of Warner Bros during criminal investigation
Ben Jones of TorrentFreak reports that Swedish prosecutor’s office has refused to investigate allegations of wrongdoing by a Swedish police allegedly on the payroll of a content provider during the course of the criminal investigation.…
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eBay under siege
The commercial court in Paris has awarded luxury bag maker LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (”LVMH”) and fashion house Christian Dior Couture (”Dior”) 38.6 million euro ($61 million) as damages against eBay for the sale…
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First Sale Doctrine Victory for Promotional CD Reseller
In an important opinion regarding the first sale doctrine, judge James S. Otero of the United States District Court for the Central District of California has ruled in UMG Recordings v. Augusto, No. CV 07-03106…
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Digital Computer Models Denied Copyright Protection
In non-gray market news, the Court of Appeal for the Tenth Circuit has held that a computer wireframe model that is unadorned and lacks any creative context, one that merely reproduces the image of a…
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Are IP police on the horizon in the US?
The House of Representatives has passed the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO IP) Act (H.R. 4279) a bill which creates a new position of “copyright enforcement czar” in the executive branch called,…