2187 ABA Journal Intellectual Property Law articles.
In an unusual example of Chinese company resorting to litigation to enforce its intellectual property abroad, a Beijing curd maker has won a trademark infringement suit against a German company.
…Nov 26, 2007 7:19 PM CST
Music lost and humor won in two recent rulings in lawsuits filed by Louis Vuitton.
The luxury goods maker succeeded in getting a Britney Spears video showing Vuitton-like fabric pulled…
Nov 20, 2007 6:17 PM CST
A federal judge in Manhattan has begun to hear a closely watched case between a renowned jeweler and an Internet auctioneer accused of turning a blind eye to the sale…
Nov 14, 2007 9:46 PM CST
A recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that preserves state immunity in patent suits—even if the state sues to enforce its own patents—is sparking…
Nov 13, 2007 3:40 PM CST
The maker of the popular Bratz doll—sort of a Barbie alternative with attitude—has hired a new law firm to represent it in an upcoming trial after a dispute with O’Melveny…
Nov 2, 2007 2:53 PM CDT
Accused of online music theft, Oregon woman strikes back
Nov 1, 2007 8:14 PM CDT
A Virginia judge has issued an injunction to bar controversial new patent rules from taking effect today.
U.S. District Judge James Cacheris ruled late Tuesday (PDF posted by…
Nov 1, 2007 11:56 AM CDT
Officials with two high-tech companies, including one general counsel, are trading barbs on their own blogs about a patent dispute.
Voicing their opinions from Sun Microsystems are general counsel
A broad array of IP industries and groups are gearing up to protest proposed patent reform legislation.
More than 400 companies and organizations representing 25 industries have written to the…
Oct 29, 2007 6:25 PM CDT
Intel Corp. has agreed to pay a struggling chip maker $250 million for a license to its patents.
The deal calls for Transmeta Corp. to license its existing patents and…
Oct 25, 2007 12:54 PM CDT
Bowing down to the authority of the European Union to regulate antitrust issues, Microsoft Corp. has agreed to end a nine-year court battle and share some of its intellectual property…
Oct 22, 2007 8:33 PM CDT
Lawyers for Seyfarth Shaw claim in a dismissal motion that a $75 million malpractice suit is “distressingly similar to Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22.”
Seyfarth’s motion does not explain how the…
Oct 22, 2007 12:19 PM CDT
A coalition of Internet and mainstream media groups have agreed to a new system of preventing copyright violations concerning video clips posted on user-generated sites such as MySpace.
Participating members…
Oct 19, 2007 5:58 PM CDT
Fish & Richardson has fired one of its partners and filed a lawsuit against him after he invented a new method for online page turning and sold it to a…
Oct 19, 2007 1:21 PM CDT
The lawyer for a woman assessed $222,000 in damages for illegally sharing downloaded music contends in a motion for a new trial that the amount is constitutionally excessive.
The judgment…
Oct 16, 2007 2:15 PM CDT
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