In an unpublished opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a Maryland federal court’s denial of Bethesda Softworks, LLC’s motion for preliminary injunction on claims that defendant Interplay Entertainment Co. infringed its copyrights relating to the … Continue reading
A state court judge in New York City declined to dismiss claims that publisher Arianna Huffington and others misappropriated the idea to create the Huffington Post, a liberal political blogging website. Daou v. Huffington, No. 651997/2010 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Oct. … Continue reading
The Canadian Supreme Court held that, by itself, a hyperlink to a third party’s website containing allegedly defamatory statements links does not constitute a publication of those statements for purposes of imposing defamation liability on the linking party. Crookes v. … Continue reading
The High Court of England and Wales held that a foreign company that has a reputation but no actual customers in the United Kingdom does not possess the goodwill necessary to create enforceable trademark rights under the UK law of … Continue reading
On October 20, 29011, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) held that the holder of European Community plant variety rights may bring an infringement action against a respondent party selling protected material of the variety without its permission, where the … Continue reading
An individual who had been a company’s “video and social media producer,” and was responsible for maintaining social media pages used to market the company’s products, refused to deliver the usernames and passwords for those social media accounts to her … Continue reading
A federal court in Los Angeles, California ruled that the song “Boom Boom Pow,” by the pop music group the Black-Eyed Peas, did not infringe the copyright in the song “Boom Dynamite,” which was written earlier by songwriter Ebony Latrice … Continue reading
On October 18, 2011, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) held that the European Union’s Biotechnology Directive prohibits the patenting of a process which involves removal of a stem cell from a human embryo at the blastocyst stage, and requires … Continue reading
Today a Chinese scientist who had worked for U.S. agribusiness companies Dow AgroSciences, LLC and Cargill, Inc. pleaded guilty to one count each of theft of trade secrets and economic espionage arising from his delivery to individuals in China and … Continue reading
A federal district court in Syracuse, New York has ordered Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York and Archway Technology Services, Inc. to pay Member Services, Inc. $26 million in compensatory and punitive damages after a jury found the … Continue reading
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