Warner Bros. scored a $2.6-million legal victory Tuesday when a federal appeals court in Missouri upheld a ruling in a copyright case involving images from the classic movies “The Wizard of Oz” and “Gone with the Wind,” as well as several “Tom and Jerry” shorts. The decade-old case could set an important precedent in the [...]
Donald Trump has filed a $500 million lawsuit against Univision Communications after the company scrapped its planned telecast of the July 12 Miss USA beauty pageant as a result of Trump’s disparaging comments about Mexican immigrants. The complaint also cites Univision Networks programming president Alberto Ciurana as a defendant. Univision called the lawsuit “factually false and legally [...]
Comcast Corp., the largest U.S. cable company, won $7.5 million in damages from wireless carrier Sprint Corp. for infringing telecommunications patents after a four-day federal jury trial. Comcast won a $7.5 million award against Sprint after a jury agreed that Sprint violated Comcast's patents for VoIP and other telecommunications technologies. The trial and the [...]
The Federal Circuit issued its opinion in Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc. holding that, under Second Circuit law, a trademark owner can only recover profits of an infringer for willful infringement and that the equitable defense of laches applies to patent infringement actions. Romag Fasteners, Inc. (“Romag”) owns U.S. Patent 5,722,126, a patent for magnetic [...]
The Russian intellectual property industry is on the verge of a new scandal. Following the recent arrest of Sergey Fedotov, head of the Russian Authors’ Society (RAS), Russia’s leading public association for the protection of intellectual property rights, on the charge of multi-million ruble thefts, the Russian police has announced the initiation of criminal [...]
In the U.S. Valley fever is prevalent in the Southwest where temperatures are high and the soils are dry. Valley Fever is a lung infection. A fungus becomes airborne when dust around construction areas and agricultural areas is transported by the wind. When spores are inhaled, Valley Fever can result. The number of reported [...]
