IPNews® – A New York federal judge on Wednesday shut down the Authors Guild’s copyright infringement lawsuit against the HathiTrust over its book scanning and digitization project, ruling that the project constitutes fair use.
The HathiTrust, a group of researchers and academic institutions, is embarking on a massive preservation project to digitize the contents of
IPNews® – Non-practicing entities, or patent trolls, initiated 40 percent of all patent litigation filed in the U.S. in the past year, a new study has shown.
The percentage has jumped up from trolls filing 22 percent of all patent cases just five years ago, the study, soon to be published in the Duke Law
IPNews® – Motorola Mobility failed Wednesday to convince a Seattle federal judge to toss Microsoft Inc.’s claims seeking a court-declared reasonable and non-discriminatory royalty rate for Motorola’s standards-essential patents for wireless network and video coding technology.
The court had already found that Motorola has an obligation to license the patents in suit at RAND rates
IPNews® – The Federal Circuit agreed on Tuesday to hold an en banc rehearing involving all of the court’s judges regarding a controversial three-judge panel decision in July that upheld four financial software patents.
The July ruling in CLS Bank International v. Alice Corp. drew heat from many quarters, especially in the technology industry, for
IPNews® – A group of major television and movie studios told a Manhattan federal judge on Monday that they deserve summary judgment on their claims that Lime Wire LLC induced widespread copyright infringement on its users’ part by allowing rampant illegally downloading of the studios’ shows and films.
The studios asked for the same ruling
IPNews® – Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC shot back on Thursday at Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC’s trademark infringement complaint in San Francisco federal court over Bridgestone’s use of an actor who appeared in numerous Sony Playstation ads in one of its own commercials playing a Nintendo Wii.
Bridgestone says that it is not, as
IPNews® – Impax Laboratories Inc.’s attempt to bring to market a generic version of the emotional instability treatment Nuedexta drew a new infringement lawsuit on Monday from Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Avanir Pharmaceuticals Inc., which owns the patent for Nuedexta.
Avanir’s patent for the drug issued in July, and it says Impax’s recently filed abbreviated new
IPNews® – A Virginia federal judge on Friday denied Megaupload Ltd.’s motion to dismiss the U.S. government’s massive criminal copyright infringement case agains the online media storage and download service, its founder Kim Dotcom and seven other employees.
The New Zealand-based Megaupload had argued that the company could not be properly served with a summons
IPNews® – A Philadelphia deli is continuing its quest to federally register the trademark “Philadelphia’s Cheesesteak” with a new lawsuit against U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director David Kappos, having failed to persuade the PTO or the office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board that the mark is registrable.
In August the TTAB upheld the PTO’s
IPNews® – Boston creative writing organization Grub Street Inc. on Thursday went after a similarly named company that endorses books for a fee with a trademark infringement lawsuit in Massachusetts federal court.
Grub Street Reads offers positive book reviews and endorsements to authors who pay up front for the privilege. The company is trying to