Nothing really comes from scratch anymore, and music is no exception. The first thing bands talk about when they form are their influences, and they typically start off by (and never really stop) playing other people’s music. Entire genres, like folk, blues, and hip-hop, are based upon liberal borrowing out of either tradition or [...]
AntiCancer filed a lawsuit against Pfizer in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California for breach of a license agreement, breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing, and unjust enrichment. After that complaint was filed, AntiCancer discovered that scientists at Pfizer and Crown Bioscience, Inc. authored publications [...]
Kelly Kullberg and Michael Landon, Jr. filed a lawsuit in a federal court in California against Pure Flix Entertainment and the studios co-founder David A.R. White over alleged copyright infringement. The plaintiffs claim that the Christian movie studio stole the plot of their movie "Rise" and used it for "God's Not Dead". Kullberg, who [...]
Uber Technologies, Inc. (“UBER”) was founded in San Francisco, CA in 2008. UBER creators, Travis Kalanick and Garret Camp came up with the idea on a snowy evening in Paris in 2008. The two had trouble hailing a cap and came up with the simple idea of tapping a button on their phone in [...]
Upscale apparel retailer J. Crew filed a lawsuit in New York district court against discount giant Wal-Mart for copyright infringement on a selection of J. Crew’s necklaces. According to the complaint, J. Crew alleges that Wal-Mart made obvious copies of the designs of six necklaces that the retailer sold from 2012 to 2013 with reckless disregard to [...]
Apple has filed a lawsuit against Mobile Star LLC, accusing the firm of infringing upon its registered trademarks and copyrights by selling counterfeit 5W USB Power Adapters and Lightning to USB cables on Amazon and Groupon, according to court documents published electronically this week. Apple's four claims for relief cover the following: Trademark Counterfeiting [...]
