2187 ABA Journal Intellectual Property Law articles.
An intellectual property law firm is claiming it owns the patents on inventions by one of its partners.
That’s the claim in a lawsuit against Google by a company that…
Oct 12, 2007 11:36 AM CDT
A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit by a songwriter who claims hip-hop soul singer Mary J. Blige stole two of her songs.
Sharice Davis claims Blige’s songs “L.O.V.E.”…
Oct 8, 2007 11:52 AM CDT
In a huge win for the recording industry, a federal jury in Minnesota decided that a woman who illegally downloaded music owes a whopping $222,000 for copyright infringement.
The
The woman accused of sharing a couple dozen copyrighted songs on the KaZaA file sharing service says she didn’t do it, but she can’t afford an expert to explain why…
Oct 4, 2007 2:51 PM CDT
Coronary artery stents are big business—not only for the companies that make them but also for lawyers.
Litigation over patent rights may be hindering development of new products and forcing…
Oct 4, 2007 2:07 PM CDT
New court filings put the spotlight on a Silicon Valley law firm in a judge’s effort to find out why Qualcomm Inc. failed to turn over hundreds of thousands of…
Oct 4, 2007 11:08 AM CDT
Like many corporations, DuPont Co. spends a lot of money on its in-house law department. The department’s annual budget was about $230 million last year. However, unlike most corporations, the…
Oct 2, 2007 7:50 PM CDT
Jammie Thomas is among 26,000 or so people who were sued by the music industry as part of a campaign to stop the illegal sharing of online music files.
But…
Oct 2, 2007 2:57 PM CDT
The court still focusing on inventors’ rights
Oct 1, 2007 6:44 PM CDT
High-profile business cases are back before the U.S. Supreme Court after a term in which the justices handed big wins to corporate defendants in antitrust, patent and securities law cases.
…Sep 28, 2007 6:23 PM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether a patent holder can seek royalties from multiple companies involved in the computer manufacturing process.
LG Electronics acquired several technology patents and then…
Sep 25, 2007 4:05 PM CDT
“Bush Lied. They Died.”
Those words, on a T-shirt, along with the names of U.S. soldiers who have been killed in the Iraq war, have sparked outrage—and legislation in five…
Sep 24, 2007 8:50 PM CDT
A ban on patents for tax-planning strategies is included in legislation to reform the patent code.
The ban is part of a patent reform package that passed the House earlier…
Sep 24, 2007 7:02 PM CDT
Fearful of an invasion of privacy that could allow others to take advantage of a valuable trade secret—the best driving routes to find fares—New York cabdrivers have filed suit to…
Sep 20, 2007 1:25 AM CDT
Companies accused of infringing patents are increasingly turning to a process known as inter partes re-examination, a less costly method of resolving patent disputes that appears to favor defendants.
Most…
Sep 12, 2007 12:19 PM CDT
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