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 [...]
Up until this past August, two California music companies were enforcing the copyright of the song “Happy Birthday” and requiring television shows and movies to pay royalties to use the song. But a class action lawsuit brought against the two music companies resulted in a settlement stating that the copyright to the lyrics would [...]
Not all that we order online shopping is worth of quality as it appears, Unscrupulous companies, mostly located in China, will use stolen images to promote all kinds of clothing from swimsuits to evening wear at deeply discounted prices. The scam works is pretty straightforward. The photos we see in ecommerce shopping are generally [...]
An act of infringement, Pfizer sued a case on Lupin, Zydus, Impax, Amneal, Amerigen and Accord over Toviaz. According to patent laws of United States Title 35 of the United States Code, Lupin seeks approval to market a generic version of Toviaz ® by filing an Abbreviated New Drug Application “ANDA” with the United States [...]
This case involves three dimensional scaffolds for growing cells in vitro for in vivo organ culture holding patent numbers 5,770,193 and 5,759,830. The prior art states that in vitro cell growth for in vivo organ culture was performed using either permanent synthetic polymer scaffolds or biodegradable scaffolds and also limitations exist like variability in degradation of the collagen scaffold also these [...]
Can a programming language be infringed? Oracle has filed an infringement suit against Google for using JAVA language for their Android mobile operating system. The case is all about whether it is a violation of copy right or not. Java programming language’s application programming interface (API). An API is basically a set of instructions [...]
