IPNews® -Pinterest Inc. last week accused an individual in China of registering domain names and seeking to register trademarks that are confusingly similar to the social network’s trademarked name.
The action in California federal court alleges Qian Jin is a serial cybersquatter who owns hundreds of domain names that infringe the intellectual property of various
IPNews® – EMI Music added one more complaint last week to the pile of copyright infringement lawsuits record labels are pursuing against online music streaming service Grooveshark.
The service continued to provide EMI’s music to users despite failing to make licensing payments or provide sales records, EMI’s complaint in New York federal court against Grooveshark
IPNews® – Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc. hit the makers of a pornographic film series entitled Ben & Cherry’s with a new trademark infringement suit filed in New York federal court Wednesday.
The ice cream maker says the porn company and its principals have been illegally poaching the names for their movies from the ice
IPNews® – Angelina Jolie came out swinging on Tuesday in response to an author’s copyright infringement claims related to the movie In The Land Of Blood And Honey she directed about the Bosnian civil war.
Author James J. Braddock’s 2007 book The Soul Shattering has nothing to do with the film, Jolie said in an
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IPNews® – The Federal Circuit on Tuesday partially reversed a lower court’s finding that a number of Santarus Inc.’s patent claims for its heartburn drug Zegerid are invalid, giving Santarus another crack at hanging Par Pharmaceuticals Inc. out to dry for trying to market a generic version of the drug.
The district court slipped up
IPNews® – Apple Inc. does not owe anything for allegedly infringing Mirror Worlds LLC’s computer operating system patents via features in its Mac OSX operating systems, the Federal Circuit ruled Tuesday, affirming that a lower court was right to throw out a $626 million jury verdict against Apple in the case.
The case focused on
IPNews® – Oracle Corp. must pay Google Inc. $1 million to compensate for costs incurred in Oracle’s failed patent and copyright infringement suit over the Java programming language, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Google had asked for $4 million in costs, but Judge William Alsup shot down $3 million in e-discovery cost requests. Oracle
IPNews® – Four textbook publishers settled claims Tuesday against five companies they accused of selling and distributing counterfeit copies of their copyrighted and trademarked work.
The settlements include a total of $2.6 million in payments to publishers Cengage Learning Inc., John Wiley and Sons Inc., Pearson Education Inc. and McGraw-Hill Education, as well as agreements
IPNews® – Luxury shoemaker Christian Louboutin won a victory in the Second Circuit on Wednesday upholding his trademark protection for his signature red-soled shoes, in a setback for rival Yves Saint Laurent in its efforts to evade Louboutin’s infringement suit.
The appeals court reversed a New York district judge’s denial of a preliminary injunction against