Worlds, Inc. filed a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard over World of Warcraft…
The Ninth Circuit has ruled that Apple did not engage in anti-competitive “copyright misuse” by forcing users to agree, via its OS X end-user license agreement, that they only install the operating system on Apple hardware. Apple Inc. v. Psystar…
The President signed the America Invents Act last week which provides start-up businesses with several new benefits to streamline their intellectual property (patent) securing options: A fast track option for Patent Processing within 12 Months: Instead of an average wait…
There has been a bit of outrage over the SDNY’s latest decision in the recent copyright infringement lawsuit against Rihanna. LaChapelle v. Rihanna, 11-cv-0945 (SDNY, July 20, 2011). The Court allowed a copyright infringement action to go forward with respect…
Several months ago Pamela Chestek, of Property, intangible, and I had an inter-blog debate about the underlying policy of the “Naked Licensing” doctrine in trademark law. (Recall that the Naked Licensing doctrine is an argument that trademark infringement defendants can…
