2186 ABA Journal Intellectual Property Law articles.
Michael Crichton, who fills a rather unique niche in turning science into literary fiction, says the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office goofed in dealing…
Aug 13, 2007 12:12 AM CDT
We’ve written about the virtual online world of Second Life—how lawyers take on second identities there, find business and create legal guidelines…
Aug 10, 2007 6:09 PM CDT
A dispute over rights to the red cross symbol has led to a lawsuit and dueling press statements.
Johnson & Johnson, the health-care products company, sued the American Red Cross…
Aug 9, 2007 2:22 PM CDT
A 16-year-old has been arrested and briefly jailed for allegedly translating the entire 759-page book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, into French and posting it on the Internet within…
Aug 8, 2007 7:27 PM CDT
U.S. District Judge Rudi Brewster didn’t name the lawyers who represented Qualcomm when he issued an opinion chastising the company for failing to turn over evidence in its patent infringement…
Aug 8, 2007 10:29 AM CDT
A judge has ruled that Qualcomm Inc. waived its rights to enforce two patents for video compression and engaged in “aggravated litigation abuse.”
The judge said Qualcomm had deliberately concealed…
Aug 7, 2007 7:16 PM CDT
A federal judge has overturned a $1.5 billion judgment against Microsoft that is one of the largest amounts ever awarded in a patent infringement suit.
Alcatel-Lucent had obtained the award…
Aug 7, 2007 2:00 PM CDT
An appeals court has struck down a Washington, D.C., law barring drug companies from charging excessive prices for prescription drugs.
The D.C. law didn’t define excessive pricing. But it said…
Aug 3, 2007 2:28 PM CDT
Courts are citing a recent U.S. Supreme Court case to justify rulings in favor of companies defending patent infringement claims.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in KSR International Co. v. Teleflex…
Aug 1, 2007 6:17 PM CDT
It was standing room only for business-suit types at Ocean Tomo’s Spring 2007 Live Intellectual Property Auction.
Aug 1, 2007 11:50 AM CDT
Lawyers for the founders a social networking Web site will get a chance to revise their infringement complaint against their big-name competitor, Facebook Inc.
But they may face an uphill…
Jul 26, 2007 8:29 PM CDT
A Microsoft lawyer who battles illegal copies of the company’s software sees “a real milestone” in yesterday’s seizure of more than $500 million worth of Chinese-made counterfeits.
The FBI and…
Jul 25, 2007 2:56 PM CDT
A Pennsylvania law firm has emerged unscathed from its trip through the “Wayback Machine.”
Judge Robert Kelly of Philadelphia has ruled Harding, Earley, Follmer & Frailey did not infringe a…
Jul 24, 2007 1:20 PM CDT
Patents may pave a path to litigation rather than profits, especially in the information technology industry, according to a study by two researchers.
They found that patent litigation in the…
Jul 16, 2007 5:40 PM CDT
Playing music on the Internet gets more expensive on Sunday—in some cases prohibitively so—because of inaction by a federal appeals court.
Sunday is the day that broadcast royalty rates will…
Jul 13, 2007 5:05 PM CDT
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