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Apple sues Motorola in federal court over patent claims in Germany
February 11, 2012
Apple brought suit against Motorola Mobility in the US District Court for the Southern District of California on Friday seeking an injunction to stop Motorola from bringing patent claims against Apple in Germany. Motorola's suit in Germany is over patent no. 6,359,898. Apple contends that Motorola....... [more]
Sweden high court refuses to hear appeal in Pirate Bay case
February 1, 2012
The Swedish Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will not hear an appeal of the copyright convictions of Fredrik Neji, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstroem for their involvement in running The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing website. After reviewing the case, the court found there were no special circu....... [more]
Copyright Case May Have Profound Effect on Treaty Power
January 27, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute, says that in the recent Golan v. Holder decision, the Supreme Court may have opened the door to reconsidering the unconstitutional practice of augmenting congressional authority in the name of imple....... [more]
DNS Filtering to Fight Internet Piracy Violates the First Amendment
January 13, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Lauren Mack, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Class of 2012, is the Copyright Chair for the Cardozo Intellectual Property Law Society. She argues that two proposed pieces of legislation that seek to curb Internet piracy through the use of DNS filtering violate the First Amend....... [more]
Federal Circuit Erred in Caraco v. Novo
January 4, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Carlos Angulo, Partner at Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, says that the Federal Circuit ruled incorrectly in a pharmaceutical patent case recently argued before the Supreme Court...On December 5, 2011, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd....... [more]
Copyright and Its Limitations According to the ECJ
December 24, 2011
JURIST Guest Columnist Virginia Keyder of the State University of New York at Binghamton and Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey, says that the recent decisions in EU case law shows a trend towards viewing intellectual property as a way to benefit society, rather than corporations, in contrast to....... [more]
US trade commission rules narrowly for Apple in HTC patent case
December 20, 2011
The US International Trade Commission (USITC) ruled on Monday for Apple on a patent complaint against HTC for infringing its "data tapping" patents. The USITC found that HTC had violated section 337 of the Tarriff Act of 1930 by infringing on some of the claims of patent nos. 5,946,647, 6,343,263, 5....... [more]
ACLU asks Supreme Court to rule on gene patent case
December 8, 2011
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) on Wednesday asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a recent federal appeals court decision that upheld gene patents. The June decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit partially overturned a distri....... [more]
Federal judge denies injunction request by Apple in Samsung patent case
December 4, 2011
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Friday declined to issue a preliminary injunction against Samsung Electronics, as requested by Apple. District Judge Lucy Koh's ruling against Apple is the latest decision in a legal battle, which began in April when Appl....... [more]
Trademark Protection for Distinctive Single Color Marks
December 3, 2011
JURIST Guest Columnist Danielle Gorman, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Class of 2013, is a Staff Editor for the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. She writes on the need for a revised opinion in the Yves Saint Laurent v. Louboutin case that would allow for the future protection of cert....... [more]
US trade commission clears Apple in HTC patent case
November 22, 2011
The US International Trade Commission (USITC) ruled Monday for Apple on a patent complaint brought by HTC. The USITC found that Apple had not violated Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 by reasons of infringement of Patent Nos. 6,658,146, 6,683,978, 6,775,417 and 7,043,087. These patents relate....... [more]
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