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07 May 2013
IP Industry Summary: Second Circuit Finds Rastafarians Transformative in Copyright Fair Use Case.
08 April 2013
IP Industry Summary: No First-Sale Doctrine for Digital Music Files
07 March 2013
IP Industry Summary: Who Dat Think They Gon Beat Them Grocery Sellers?
11 February 2013
IP Industry Summary: California District Court Not Crazy about Extending First Amendment to Private Actors in the DMCA Context.
08 February 2013
IP Industry Summary: Argument for a License to use Haiti Earthquake TwitPics via Twitter’s Terms of Service is Too Shaky for NY District Court.
31 January 2013
IP Industry Summary: Urban Outfitters Driven From its Land by Navajo Nation . . . to Defend Lawsuit.
16 January 2013
IP Industry Summary: Yo Adrian, I Ain’t No Infringer
09 January 2013
IP Industry Summary: Truly Incontestable: Trademark Owner Violates Opposition Settlement Agreement, But Keeps Mark
12 December 2012
IP Industry Summary: Is Virtual Property Real or Intellectual?: Second Life Class Action Moves Forward.
05 December 2012
IP Industry Summary: One Law Firm Under a Groove, Just for the Funk of It
27 November 2012
IP Industry Summary: MGA Dolls are Bratz but not Infringers.
27 November 2012
IP Industry Summary: Not Going Extinct: Judge Refuses to Reduce Dinosaur Photo Copyright Award
26 November 2012
IP Industry Summary: Ninth Circuit Finds Laches Defense a Total Knockout.
26 November 2012
IP Industry Summary: Court Concludes that Numeric Part Numbers Are Not Source Identifiers.
12 November 2012
IP Industry Summary: Bittersweet Victory for Longhorn Steakhouse
08 November 2012
IP Industry Summary: Nikita, Natasha: Judge Dismisses Copyright Suit Against Elton John
06 November 2012
IP Industry Summary: Can a State Block Your Domain Name?: 5th Circuit Remands Texas Case for 1st Amendment Inquiry
25 October 2012
IP Industry Summary: Malibu Media Takes A Hit
23 October 2012
IP Industry Summary: Encroaching Upon Another Circuit: First Circuit Adopts Progressive Encroachment Doctrine in Trademark Case.
19 October 2012
IP Industry Summary: Court tosses Pizza franchisee’s request to renew franchise agreement.
18 October 2012
IP Industry Summary: Facebook History Publisher Not Liable for Copyright Infringement
17 October 2012
IP Industry Summary: MISSION for Mexican packaged food products and MISSION BURRITO for a Mexican food chain too close for 5th Circuit’s taste.
16 October 2012
IP Industry Summary: State trademark registration is a diamond jeweler’s best friend in seeking a preliminary injunction.
16 October 2012
IP Industry Summary: Federal Circuit rejects heightened standard of materiality in analyzing primarily geographically deceptively misdescriptive mark.
09 October 2012
IP Industry Summary: Court kisses lip print infringement claim goodbye – finds no likelihood of confusion between plaintiff’s and competitor’s lipstick logo on vodka.
26 September 2012
Construction Law Industry Summary: Alabama Federal Court Reaffirms Hall Street’s Limited Bases For Vacating An Arbitration Award.
24 September 2012
IP Industry Summary: Second Circuit holds that § 111 license does not extend to live streaming of copyrighted television programs over the Internet.
24 September 2012
IP Industry Summary: The beginning of a beautiful friendship — district court preliminarily enjoins use of Humphrey Bogart’s name.
19 September 2012
IP Industry Summary: Court vanquishes copyright infringement claim against Percy Jackson & the Olympians.
19 September 2012
IP Industry Summary: Federal Circuit: Declaratory judgment plaintiff under license to patentee may have the burden to prove noninfringement.
05 September 2012
IP Industry Summary: Plaintiff’s misunderstanding of trademark versus copyright protection not enough for motion to dismiss.
05 September 2012
IP Industry Summary: Court Partial to Partitioning Copyrights for Car Parts Providers’ Computer Program.
30 August 2012
IP Industry Summary: Federal Circuit – Using software to facilitate consumers’ purchases on Lens.com not “use in Commerce."
27 August 2012
IP Industry Summary: 7th Circuit Kills Copyright Infringement Case; Finds Kanye West’s Claims Stronger.
22 August 2012
IP Industry Summary: Sixth Circuit settles questions related to fair use defense and apportionment of profits in copyright infringement case.
21 August 2012
IP Industry Summary: Southern District of New York bounces out trampoline maker’s trade dress infringement and dilution claims.
20 August 2012
IP Industry Summary: Medical syringe company finds competitors’ mark a sticking point; pricks its ire.
09 August 2012
IP Industry Summary: SDNY Finds Farmers Too Sophisticated For Confusion
08 August 2012
IP Industry Summary: Court closes the book on copyright infringement claim - rules social media website not liable for users’ bookmarks.
08 August 2012
IP Industry Summary: All dolled up with nowhere to go: Court rejects copyright infringement claim brought against manufacturer of Bratz.
07 August 2012
IP Industry Summary: First Circuit addresses burden of proof for willfulness finding in trademark case.
20 July 2012
IP Industry Summary: Seventh Circuit Finds Fair Use - South Park Prevails in Parody Proceeding.
11 July 2012
IP Industry Summary: Louis Vuitton awarded preliminary injunction against websites selling counterfeit LV goods.
11 July 2012
IP Industry Summary: ASCAP appeals District Court's reasonable royalty fee determination.
10 July 2012
IP Industry Summary: Louis Vuitton’s Claim of Trademark Infringement Considered Unfashionable by Southern District of New York.
10 July 2012
IP Industry Summary: DC Circuit declares Copyright Royalty Board structure Unconstitutional.
06 July 2012
IP Industry Summary: Hot dog company relishes district court’s frank decision denying preliminary injunction.
06 July 2012
IP Industry Summary: Ninth Circuit explains relevance of non-consumer confusion.
27 June 2012
IP Industry Summary: Broad local recognition of FESTIVAL OF TREES enough to avoid categorization as a generic term.
26 June 2012
IP Industry Summary: Failure to Allege a Single Example of Similarity Between Copyrighted Works Results in Dismissal.
26 June 2012
IP Industry Summary: Federal Circuit Holds that Court Must Look at All Evidence When Determining Fair Market Value of Copyright License.
25 June 2012
IP Industry Summary: Size does matter - TEXAS TOAST mark deemed generic as applied to croutons.
18 June 2012
IP Industry Summary: Makers of headphones sound off in trademark dispute. Court finds plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction Ludacris.
12 June 2012
IP Industry Summary: Florida Court rules infringement claim is not sizzlin.
11 June 2012
IP Industry Summary: Using trademark symbol with a generic term does not constitute false advertising under 43(a).
11 June 2012
IP Industry Summary: Court signals that manufacturing receivers designed to circumvent satellite encryption violates the DMCA and FCA.
06 June 2012
IP Industry Summary: 8th Cir. affirms – First National Bank South Dakota likely to be confused with First National Bank in Sioux Falls.
04 June 2012
IP Industry Summary: Chanel, Inc. granted preliminary injunction against websites selling counterfeit Chanel products.
01 June 2012
IP Industry Summary: Former business relationship in North Carolina enough for court to deny Capitol Ministries’s prayer for 12(b)(2) motion to dismiss.
31 May 2012
IP Industry Summary: Maywheather un'beat'able in copyright infringement suit.
30 May 2012
IP Industry Summary: Ninth Circuit rules subjective similarity best left to juries.
30 May 2012
IP Industry Summary: Georgia State University students will continue to enjoy e-reserves thanks to the Fair Use Doctrine.
29 May 2012
IP Industry Summary: No likelihood of confusion between GROUPION and GROUPON marks.
29 May 2012
IP Industry Summary: Court rejects notion that selling legitimate products at seriously discounted prices can constitute trademark infringement.
29 May 2012
IP Industry Summary: Plaintiff does not need to allege use of its trademark to survive a motion to dismiss a false association claim.
25 May 2012
IP Industry Summary: SDNY tells Guess? to knock it off and pay $4.66 million in damages to Gucci for trademark infringement.
17 May 2012
IP Industry Summary: Court slices through blade manufacturer’s request for a preliminary injunction in false advertising suit against rival.

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