IPNews® – California Central District Court Judge Andrew Guilford kept the trademark infringement claims of Hero Nutritionals alive this week in a ruling against Nutraceutical Corporation’s motion for summary judgment.
Hero owns the “Yummi Bear” trademark for vitamins and claims that Nutraceutical Corporation is violating those rights by marketing and selling vitamins with such names
IPNews® – Uniloc Inc. sued 12 different companies in Texas federal court on Friday for allegedly infringing its patented system of administering software licenses across a network of computers.
Altair Engineering Inc., Altera Corp., Altium Inc., Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corp., Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., Mintab Inc., Originlab Corp., Parametric Technology Corp., SlickEdit Inc., SofTech
IPNews® – Lenovo Inc., Barnes & Noble Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and other tablet makers are infringing Hopewell Culture & Design LLC’s patent for a double-click user interaction system, Hopewell said in a barrage of new lawsuits filed Friday.
B&N’s Nook, Amazon’s Kindle, Lenovo’s ThinkPad andIdea Pad, Coby Electronics Corp.’s Kyros, Viewsonic Corp.’s ViewBook and Viewpad
IPNews® – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would not take up Nova Chemicals Corp.’s appeal of a $61.7 million patent infringement judgment in favor of Dow Chemical Co. in a case over advanced plastic polymers.
A Delaware federal jury handed down its infringement verdict in 2010, and the district court refused to
IPNews® – The gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender student fraternal organization Delta Lambda Phi sued a new fraternity at the University of California at Santa Cruz that it says is infringing its trademark rights with a confusingly similar name and acronym.
Delta Lambda Psi was formed in 2005 after a group of gay students came
IPNews® – GlaxoSmithKline LLC and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. were accused in a new class action in New Jersey federal court on Thursday of striking illegal deals to delay the entry of generic versions of Glaxo’s epilepsy drug Lamictal to the market until Glaxo’s patent for it expired.
Glaxo sued Teva after it filed an
IPNews® – The U.S. Copyright Office issued its latest triennial exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on Thursday, saying that copying DVD clips for fair use is allowed under the law but not “jailbreaking” tablets or video game systems.
The office declined to take up proposals from digital rights groups such as the Electronic
IPNews® – Yelp Inc. is infringing and profiting off of its misuse of Village Voice Media Holdings LLC’s trademarks for its annual “Best Of” features in its publications in many cities across the U.S., the national alt-weekly publisher alleged in a new action in Arizona federal court on Thursday.
Village Voice Media found out in
IPNews® – A Los Angeles federal judge on Wednesday shut down Google Inc.’s attempt to ditch claims that it aided and abetted ContentWatch Inc. in misusing Cybersitter LLC’s trademarks in online ads to draw attention to ContentWatch’s own products.
Cybersitter, which developed, markets and sells an Internet content-filtering program, sued Google and ContentWatch Inc. over
IPNews® – The owners of the popular San Jose tourist attraction the Winchester Mystery House cannot hold a film production company liable for using the Mystery House’s trademarks without authorization, a California state appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Global Asylum Inc. has a First Amendment right to use the name of the historical 160 room mansion