IPNews® – Pfizer Inc. and Northwestern University filed a lawsuit on Friday in an attempt to prevent a generic-drug manufacturer from producing a form of the patented drug Lyrica.
The company and the university have actively fought to protect the patent for the drug, which brought in more than $3.7 billion in revenues in 2011.
IPNews® – H&R Block Inc. filed a lawsuit against TurboTax maker Intuit for its recent advertising campaign that H&R Block claims is disparaging.
H&R Block alleged in its complaint that Intuit makes unauthorized use of the H&R Block trademark and makes the company out to be incompetent and untrustworthy. H&R Block claims Intuit is making unauthorized
IPNews® – Fox Broadcasting Co. lost the first round of its fight for an injunction against Dish Network Corp.’s over Dish’s AutoHop DVR.
Fox claims that Dish’s DVR services, which allow consumers to record television and then automatically skip over commercials when watching shows, constitutes copyright infringement. Dish counters that DVRs copy television programs for
IPNews® – Anheuser-Busch InBev secured the rights to the BUD trademark in the EU despite the Czech brewer Budejobicky Budvar NP’s opposition to its registration.
Both companies began brewing beer in the 19th century and both named their brews Budweiser, after the Czech town of Budweis. Budvar attempted to block Anheuser-Busch’s registration of the
IPNews® – L’Oreal USA Inc., a maker of fragrances using the Polo Ralph Lauren logo, claims that the U.S. Polo Association infringes the famous trademark by using its logo consisting of two horsemen, on fragrances.
The two companies have been in legal battles for nearly 30 years over conflicting trademarks. The parties entered into a
IPNews® – The United States Supreme Court will rule on the doctrine of patent exhaustion as it relates to self-replicating products.
Monsanto sued Vernon Bowman, a farmer who recreated and planted patented Roundup Ready soybean seeds he bought from Monsanto, for patent infringement. Bowman argues that the patent exhaustion doctrine takes away any power Monsanto
IPNews® – Amazon and Apple have been ordered by a U. S. magistrate judge into settlement talks for the trademark lawsuit Apple filed against Amazon.
Shortly after Amazon launched an “app store” on its website, Apple filed suit in the Northern District of California claiming that Amazon was infringing its trademark and engaging in unfair
IPNews® – Agence France Presse and The Washington Post were found to have infringed a photographers copyright when they used photos that were posted to his Twitter account.
Photographer Daniel Morel was on the scene during the Haiti earthquake in January 2010. Morel posted his photos from the aftermath on Twitter, which Agence France Presse
IPNews® – The Kardashian sisters are back in court with a $10 million counterclaim against them for trademark infringement.
The counterclaim was brought against the sisters and Boldface Licensing + Branding, a company that created the Khroma cosmetics line for the Kardashian sisters, by a Florida makeup artist who owns the trademark KROMA and uses
IPNews® – The Supreme Court ruled that Nike’s covenant not to sue a competitive shoe maker renders moot the defendant’s counterclaim.
Nike originally filed the lawsuit against Already LLC for trademark infringement, which Already answered with a counterclaim alleging that Nike’s trademark is invalid. When litigation costs became greater than the potential rewards, Nike attempted