On October 2011, Lego A/S launched a lawsuit to block a Florida-based toy retailer from selling plastic figurines that allegedly infringe its copyrighted iconic yellow toy men. Best-Lock Construction Toys Inc. sells toy brick sets with figurines that are “strikingly and substantially similar” to Lego’s Minifigures, according to the complaint. “In fact, the torso, head, [...]
Tequila marketer Patron Spirits International has sued The Reindeer Group Ltd. its former digital agency, alleging the shop is violating trademark law by continuing to promote Patron as a client on its website, even though the relationship was terminated in early 2014. Patron also alleges that the agency, called Reindeer, overbilled the marketer by [...]
On March 8, 2016, Poo~Pourri sued Reckitt Benckiser for copyright infringement, unfair competition, trademark infringement, and dilution in violation of the Copyright Act. Scentsible LLC, the Dallas-based company that owns Poo-Pourri, is suing the makers of V.I.Poo for its marketing approach. The defendant slavishly copied Poo-Pourri’s copyrighted advertising materials, including its famous 'Girls Don’t Poop' [...]
Purolite Company based in the US has sued Hitachi for 1 billion USD in a US court over theft of intellectual property.The suit alleges that Hitachi signed on to a joint venture to develop contaminated water systems for Fukushima Daiichi back in 2011 or 2012. Once Hitachi had the proprietary technical information from Purolite they [...]
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI) and other lobbying bodies that represent the global record industry are suing the website YouTube-MP3 (YTMP3) in the US for allegedly facilitating millions of dollars of copyright infringement. YouTube-mp3.org was the creation of young German teen Philip Matesanz. He launched the [...]
On October 26, 2016 Oracle filed an appeal Wednesday of its defeat in an $8.8 billion copyright lawsuit against Google. Oracle America, Inc. v. Google, Inc. is a dispute related to Oracle's copyright and patent claims on Google's Android operating system. Oracle claimed that Google’s reuse of 37 of 166 packages of the Java application program interface (API) in the Android software for [...]
