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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On October 25, 2016 the company behind Snapchat, which recently changed its name to Snap Inc., was hit with a trademark lawsuit in New York federal court by another social media company named Snap Interactive. Snapchat recently announced that it would now be known as Snap Inc. in are branding meant to send the message that [...]
In a new Supreme Court petition, Trading Technologies (TT) has again challenged USPTO and Federal Circuit eligibility determinations. TT v. Lee asks the following question: Given that 35 U.S.C. § 100(b) sets forth that a patent eligible “process” includes a “new use of a known process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, or material,” did [...]
Digital products are weird: they are inert without software to animate them, and software is so technologically and legally weird that it can be very hard to know exactly what you’re buying. But there just might be some clarity on the horizon, thanks to documents I recently filed with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), [...]
