Court Rulings
COURT: ICE GUM NOT REALLY THAT COOL
After chewing on a dispute between Wrigley and Cadbury over patents covering their competing “ice” gum products for more than eight years, the courts have declared a draw.
Read MoreGOOGLE LIBRARY PROJECT CASE NOW A REAL LAWSUIT
It has been seven years since The Authors Guild and some of its individual members first filed suit against Google, charging that its Library Project—to the extent it posted “snippets” of works still in copyright—constituted a massive copyright infringement. Initially, Google welcomed the class action as a vehicle for negotiating a global settlement of such claims that would have,…
Read MoreCOURT: iPHONE DESIGN NOT REALLY BIG DEAL
No one sweated the small details of consumer electronics design more than Steve Jobs. Today’s ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in a patent dispute between Apple and Samsung, must have him throwing quite a fit, wherever he is. Apple accused Samsung’s smart phones of infringing patents (pictured) covering the…
Read MoreY-M-C-A: VILLAGE PEOPLE FRONT MAN SCORES EARLY VICTORY IN COPYRIGHT TRANSFER TERMINATION WARS
January 1, 2013 is a date that has long been circled on music industry calendars. It will mark the 35th anniversary of the 1978 effective date of the Copyright Act of 1976, and is the day authors and artists can be begin to take advantage of the Act’s liberalized copyright transfer termination provisions. (Paul Goldstein’s…
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