IPNews® – The heirs of Superman co-creator and original illustrator Joe Shuster lost a crucial ruling Wednesday in their attempt to reclaim the copyrights to the character from DC Comics.
A Los Angeles federal judge ruled that the copyright termination notice the Shuster heirs sent to DC was invalid, as a 1992 agreement between the
IPNews® – The United Kingdom’s Court of Appeal ruled that a lower court judge was right to find Samsung Electronics Co. did not infringe Apple Inc.’s designs when producing its own tablet computers.
The lower court issued its finding of no infringement in July, and ordered Apple to publish advertisements stating that Samsung had not
IPNews® – The owners of the Longhorn Steakhouse chain of restaurants are facing new trademark infringement claims from a Las Vegas casino that shares the name of the restaurant chain’s Golden Nugget fried cheesecake dessert.
The Golden Nugget Las Vegas has been using the name continuously since it opened in 1946, and owns a number
IPNews® – A California federal judge scolded Groupion LLC Monday for seeking to have him disqualified from hearing its trademark infringement and cybersquatting battle with Groupon Inc., saying its motion was based solely on one adverse ruling.
Groupion sought to have Judge Jeffrey White recused on the grounds that he reviewed and considered documents that
IPNews® – The Federal Circuit on Wednesday reversed a Maryland district court’s ruling that Microsoft Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and other software companies did not infringe a patent for a paging system held by Technology Patents LLC.
The appeals court simultaneously affirmed the district court’s decision in favor of a large number of domestic and foreign
IPNews® – TiVo Inc.’s damages for Motorola Mobility Inc. and Time Warner Cable Inc.’s alleged infringement of its patented digital video recording technology could add up to billions of dollars, TiVo told a Texas court Monday.
Motorola’s massive production of infringing DVRs outclasses the number of products at issue in TiVo’s previous infringement cases against
IPNews® – A French court has ruled that Bell Helicopter’s new 429 helicopter does not infringe a Eurocopter-held patent for landing gear equipment, the Textron Inc. subsidiary said Tuesday.
The French court also ordered Eurocopter to shell out for the costs of the proceedings, according to Bell. The companies are still embroiled in ongoing U.S.
IPNews® – Yves Saint Laurent SAS said Tuesday it wants to drop its counterclaims against Christian Louboutin in Louboutin’s trademark infringement lawsuit over his iconic red-soled shoes, now that the Second Circuit has ruled that YSL’s monochromatic red shoes do not infringe.
The appeals court let YSL off the hook for the infringement claim in
IPNews® – The U.S. International Trade Commission has voted to investigate whether Apple Inc.’s importation of certain iPhone, iPad and Mac computer products violates VirnetX Inc.’s patent rights for devices with secure communications applications, the ITC said Tuesday.
VirnetX asked the ITC in September to institute an investigation into Apple’s allegedly infringing imports and ultimately
IPNews® – Apple Inc. won patent protection on Tuesday for a number of inventions including a system of detecting whether an electronic device’s user is authorized to be handling the device or not.
The system can compare photos of users’ faces, voices or heartbeats to determine who is using it and take various security measures