IPNews® – Neil Young applied for two new trademarks which he plans to use in marketing his new company Pono.
Young has long been a critic of the quality of music available for MP3 players and he plans to offer a better option for consumers with his digital-to-analog online library and portable devices. Young hopes
IPNews® – On Friday a California judge ruled that yoga poses cannot be copyrighted.
Bikram Choudhury, creator of the Bikram hot yoga system, claims that he has the exclusive right to teach his yoga sequences. However, U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright said that though Bikram can copyright the books and videos describing his methods
IPNews® – A Washington district judge threw out a copyright claim against a reporter who used National Football Scouting’s player grades in his blog, but he may still be on the hook for trade secret claims.
On dismissing the copyright claim, Federal District Judge Ronald B. Leighton said reporter Rob Rang’s use of the scores
IPNews® – A Southern California jury found that Apple and LG Electronics did not infringe on Alcatel-Lucent’s patents.
Alcatel-Lucent claimed that Apple and LG Electronics had been using three of its patents related to video compression technology without permission. Apple and LG, however, said they had compensated Alcatel-Lucent through their membership in an industry-wide patent
IPNews® – Google and Apple are no strangers to each other when it comes to patent wars, but the companies are putting their differences aside to bid together on Kodak’s imaging patents.
Between the two, Apple and Google own 86.3 percent of the market for operating systems on smartphones. However, the companies have apparently decided
IPNews® – Apple and Samsung continue their patent infringement battle today after Apple was awarded $1.05 billion by a jury in August.
Apple feels the verdict is not enough and seeks further monetary damages and a permanent injunction. Samsung, however, feels the verdict is steeper than it should be and claims that Apple’s requested injunction
IPNews® – A family feud over Bob Marley’s intellectual property ended when the family reached a private settlement Friday.
Bob Marley’s half brother, Richard Booker, has been using Marley’s legacy to promote his personal business ventures without any legal right to do so. Fifty-Six Hope Road Music Ltd., which represents Marley’s widow and children, filed
IPNews® – Sally Beauty Supply LLC settled a trademark infringement case Thursday, agreeing to pay $8.5 million in damages.
Mixed Chicks LLC, a provider of hair care products to those of mixed nationality, filed a complaint claiming that Sally Beauty had infringed on its trademark and trade dress. The company claims that the infringement began
IPNews® – In a case involving Myriad Genetics, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether human genes are patentable.
The Biotechnology giant claims that without patent protection for its discoveries, it would be unable to find investors to fund life saving research. Those against the patenting of human genes claim that it restricts clinical research