Intellectual Property
The Hershey Company filed a lawsuit against a Washington marijuana dispensary alleging its “Reefer’s Peanut Butter Cups” violated the company’s copyright. That suit may be the tip of the iceberg for the marijuana industry, as increased scrutiny is bound to come with its skyrocketing value, which some estimates put at as much as $10 billion within five years.
In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court found that a defendant cannot be liable for inducing infringement unless the induced party directly infringed the patent, meaning there is no induced infringement of a method patent unless every step of the method can be attributed to a single actor.
The “Trade Protection Not Troll Protection Act,” introduced by U.S. Congressmen Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) and Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.), aims to reduce the ability of patent trolls to initiate ITC investigations.
Microsoft told government regulators that going forward with a search warrant seeking customer information stored abroad “would violate international law […]
Patent assertion firm VirnetX may be on the cusp of winning a major lawsuit – worth as much as $340 […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk first told a shareholder’s meeting he was planning on doing something “kind of controversial with respect […]
After the Supreme Court’s unanimous reversal of the Federal Circuit in Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc., Vera Ranieri of […]
As the plaintiff learned in a recent patent case, “all things are presumed against a spoliator,” and the failure to resolve any discrepancies can trigger heightened scrutiny during discovery.
The Supreme Court found that the Federal Circuit’s standard for “indefiniteness” in a patent needs to be revisited. “Insolubly ambiguous” […]
The global economy, still struggling to fully recover from the economic crises of the last decade, is being short-shrifted by […]
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