Intellectual Property

Reversals And Revivals: Predictions for 2014 From Thomson Reuters

People and power, money and markets, buys and sells, fees and fortunes, mergers and manias, odds and ends…

Credit Card App “Square” Embroiled In Lawsuits Over Patents, Development Claims

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is being accused – again – of shoving out someone integral to the development of a […]

Calif. AG Sues Kaiser For Waiting Months To Warn Customers Of Data Breach

In a California data breach case that could have national implications, the state’s attorney general is suing Kaiser Foundation Health […]

Troll Invokes Mark Cuban’s Wrath With Patent For Watching Movies Early

Billionaire entrepreneur and public enemy of patent troll firms Mark Cuban has a new target: a patent assertion firm that […]

Trial Of A Major Patent Aggregator Opens In Delaware Court

Intellectual Ventures is seemingly the aristocrat of trolls. It presents itself as responsible, and it rarely litigates, explain Jeff Matsuura […]

No Secondary Liability For Founder Of Allegedly Infringing Company

An Arizona district court found that BioD failed to make its copyright infringement case against the founder of Amino Technology, […]

Good Trolls And Bad Trolls

The Nebraska attorney general recently put trolling for patents right up there with soliciting child pornography and selling designer drugs, […]

Appeals Court Weighing Validity Of Gov’t Request For Unencrypted Emails

Now-defunct email service Lavabit’s defense claiming that providing unencrypted missives to the court violates privacy was not as compelling to […]

Antitrust and Competition: Nonmerger Enforcement Activity Heats Up on Both Sides of the Atlantic

U.S. and European antitrust agencies are likely to continue to focus on intellectual property, financial services and pharmaceuticals in 2014.

Jury’s Verdict in Madden Football Copyright Case Overturned

Last summer a jury found that the Apple and Sega Genesis source codes were “substantially similar,” and therefore EA had infringed Antonick’s copyright. However, last week, a California Federal District Court overturned the verdict and granted EA’s motions for judgment as a matter of law and for a new trial.

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