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Sony Pictures pushed a Florida federal court Monday to force the producer of one of the films leaked to the public in the wake of a 2014 cyber attack to arbitrate its breach of contract claims, arguing that the parties had agreed to resolve all disputes that way. In its motion to compel arbitration, Sony [...]
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' [...]
Gulf DTH FC, a Dubai based company had exclusive broadcasting rights for certain channels in certain foreign territories filed a suit in the Delhi High Court, alleging copyright infringement by Dish TV India and accused Dish TV India of orchestrating an elaborate scheme to earn illegal monies. The main issues pertain to the alleged commercial [...]
A 36-year-old Ryan Collins from Pennsylvania was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to hacking the Apple and Google accounts of more than 100 celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence, Aubrey Plaza, Rihanna, and Avril Lavigne. Collins stole personal information, including nude photos, from the celebrities. The photos were famously posted on 4Chan [...]
The equitable defense of laches has long been recognized as an available and effective method for precluding recovery of legal damages, and it can provide a lifeline to defendants who otherwise lack strong noninfringement or invalidity arguments. However, the availability of this defense is now in question. This November, the Supreme Court will hear [...]
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 [...]
The Washington Redskins are entangled in a trademark battle over its name and is urging the Supreme Court to hear its case. The football team disagrees about the offensiveness of the name and contests the constitutionality of Section 2 (a) of the Lanham Act which bans trademarks that are “disparaging.” Under the act, the [...]
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 [...]
Lowe’s Cos. Inc. has settled a lawsuit brought by a company that claimed the home improvement retailer sold security cameras that infringed of its patents. Iron Gate, holder of U.S. Patent No. 7,203,693, sued Lowe's in the Southern District of New York, alleging infringement. According to the patent, "none of the existing multimedia data indexing [...]
