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
IPNews® – A Southern California party costume business is facing copyright and trademark infringement claims from Disney Enterprises Inc., DC Comics and Sanrio Inc.
The entertainment companies claim The Party Animals LLC is selling, renting and distributing costumes featuring trademarked and copyrighted characters including Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Superman, Batman and Hello Kitty. To continue
IPNews® – Michael Jackson’s estate settled a copyright infringement lawsuit it brought against a businessman working on behalf of Jackson’s mother in a $2.5 million deal Tuesday.
Defendant Howard Mann and his companies Vintage Pop Media Group LLC and Vintage Associates LLC will also be banned from further use of Jackson’s likeness without authorization. The
IPNews® – Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy S III phone and 20 other products came under attack from Apple Inc. in a new amended complaint on Friday in the electronics giants’ mountains of patent infringement litigation, just a week after Apple won a $1 billion verdict against Samsung in a related case.
Apple is asserting eight