In business environments that are fueled by innovation, diligent budgeting and spend management can mean the difference between sinking and swimming. While introducing new intellectual property (IP) can increase a business’s net worth from a revenue standpoint and by increasing the likelihood of procuring investor funding, it’s by monitoring resource investments that a business [...]
Academic textbook publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (Wiley) owns the American copyright for textbooks and often assigns its rights to its foreign subsidiaries to publish, print, and sell its textbooks abroad. Supap Kirtsaeng is a Thai citizen who came to the United States in 1997 to study mathematics. While he was in the [...]
On February 12, 2016, the Federal Circuit issued its en banc opinion in Lexmark International Inc. v. Impression Products Inc., addressing whether its long-standing rules on two key aspects of patent exhaustion remain sound in light of more recent decisions of the Supreme Court. The Federal Circuit reaffirmed its earlier decisions, confirming that a patentee’s U.S. patent [...]
At this point it’s difficult to keep track of all the disputes, bad blood and legal battles that have emerged between current and former members of Boston over the years. In light of that, perhaps it’s a good thing that another lawsuit finally seems to have run its course. The suit that Boston founder Tom Scholz filed against [...]
The family of an Ethiopian runner who famously won an Olympic marathon barefoot is suing Vibram, the maker of a popular line of minimalist running shoes, saying it used his name without permission. The Bikila Family sued principally under the state of Washington’s “Personality Rights Act.” This law provides that “Every individual or personality [...]
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 [...]
