IPNews® – Apple Inc. asked a California federal judge Friday to tack on $707 million in enhanced and supplemental damages and interest on top of the $1 billion a jury recently awarded the company in its iPhone and iPad patent infringement war with Samsung Electronics Co.
Samsung made a calculated business decision to copy Apple’s
IPNews® – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board on Wednesday foreclosed on Apple Inc.’s hopes of registering the square, orange music player app icon for its iPhone and iPad as a trademark.
The proposed trademark is too similar to a square, orange icon — also featuring a double musical note
IPNews® – Disney Enterprises Inc. prevailed on Thursday in a copyright infringement lawsuit in Missouri federal court accusing it of misappropriating the titles and story lines of its 2009 and 2010 “Santa Paws” movies from a 1991 illustrated Christmas story.
Disney’s movies are not substantially similar to the protected expression in the plaintiffs’ short story
IPNews® – Samsung Electronics Co. and Motorola Mobility LLC on Friday escaped Apple Inc.’s claims in a German court that their Android devices infringe one of its European patents for a touch interface.
Samsung and Motorola do not infringe because Android does not store a multi-touch “flag” in association with each user interface component, Judge
IPNews® – NoHo Barcade, a new arcade game themed bar in North Hollywood, is fighting off trademark infringement claims from the East Coast based Barcade LLC, which claims it owns the trademark to the name as it relates to bars and bar services.
The Barcade trademark is not valid, not used in interstate commerce, and
IPNews® – The U.S. Copyright Office said Wednesday it plans to look into the ways that a federal resale royalty right might be able to benefit visual artists and how such a right would change the art marketplace.
The inquiry comes in response to a request by U.S. Senator Herb Kohl, D-Wisconsin and U.S. Representative
IPNews® – A South Carolina fitness center filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against NBCUniversal Media LLC Wednesday alleging the company’s Style Network reality television show Wicked Fit comes too close to the gym’s trademarked name.
Wicked Fitness LLC owns the federal trademark registrations for its name and a range of variants, and has operated under
IPNews® – A German court granted Microsoft Inc. an injunction Thursday against the sale of any of Google Inc.-owned Motorola Mobility LLC’s devices that infringe a Microsoft-held European patent for a software input function.
The technology at issue is a cornerstone of the Android operating system, and the judge found that the operating system itself
IPNews® – Google Inc.’s advertising campaign in support of its newly introduced Nexus 7 tablet is infringing Market Street Press Inc.’s trademark for the phrase “The Playground Is Open,” according to a new lawsuit Market Street filed in North Carolina last week.
Market Street, which sells promotional and marketing merchandise, says it has been using
IPNews® – Unwired Planet LLC attacked Google Inc. and Apple Inc. in Nevada federal court Wednesday over the tech giants’ alleged infringement of its patent portfolio covering mobile internet technology.
The company was an early innovator in mobile internet browsers for phones, but was pushed out of the market by infringing competition, the complaints say.