IPNews® – The Eighth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a $222,000 copyright infringement verdict against a Minnesota woman whom the major record labels accused of sharing copyrighted songs through the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Kazaa.
The Minnesota district court had cut the jury’s damages award to $54,000 three times for three separate jury trials in the case
IPNews® – Renowned test pilot Chuck Yeager on Monday lost his Ninth Circuit appeal of his failed suit seeking to hold two old friends liable for using his likeness without authorization in their aviation memorabilia business.
Yeager’s claims were time-barred, the appeals court ruled. The Ninth Circuit ruled that a declaration Yeager submitted to the
IPNews® – K-Tec Inc., which sparked a viral sensation with its “Will It Blend?” YouTube promotional videos for its Blendtec blenders, won out last week over its rival blender maker Vita-Mix Corp.’s appeal of a $24 million patent infringement judgment in K-Tec’s favor.
The Federal Circuit on Thursday ruled that the district court made no
IPNews® – The Ninth Circuit let NuVasive Inc. off the hook for a $60 million jury verdict finding it infringed Neurovision Medical Products Inc.’s trademark “Neurovision,” vacating the district court’s judgment and ordering a new trial.
The appeals court found that the Los Angeles federal court ignored Ninth Circuit precedent, persistently cut off or excluded
IPNews® – The Velvet Underground on Friday lost its copyright infringement claim against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc. over the licensing of Warhol’s famous banana screenprint cover art for the band’s debut album, but the band’s remaining claims for trademark infringement remain intact.
A New York federal judge ruled that because
IPNews® – HTC Corp. won out on Thursday over an inventor’s claims that the phone maker infringed two patents for wireless communication devices, after an Illinois federal judge ruled that the two patents were unenforceable due to the inventor’s false statements.
Intellect Wireless founder Daniel Henderson sued HTC in 2009 as part of a larger
IPNews® – Smith & Nephew Inc. was awarded $4 million in damages on Tuesday for lost profits relating to Hologic Inc.’s infringement of its patents for a medical tissue removal device.
The Massachusetts federal jury verdict resolves consolidated patent litigation S&N first filed in June 2010. S&N alleged Hologic infringed U.S. Patent Numbers 7,226,459 and
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