Intellectual Property

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.

Distributing Earnings Call Information to the Public Is Fair Use

An Appeals Court ruled that the unauthorized distribution of a recording and transcript of a company’s earnings call was allowed as copyright fair use, opening the door for news organizations and other services to redistribute and sell companies’ earnings call information to customers and the public.