Article Archive for July 2010
The World Cup is more than just a month of soccer games and vuvuzelas, it is also an opportunity for FIFA’s IP lawyers to enforce their 100+ trademarks and insure that nobody throws around the words “World Cup …
On June 10th, Bogart LLC filed a claim in the Middle District of Georgia against Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. The suit alleges that Ashley Furniture has used the Bogart LLC’s intellectual property without authorization, including the “Bogart” …
On May 5, 2010, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) shut down the website www.HTMLComics.com (“HTMLComics”) and confiscated all of the website’s servers after a search for evidence of copyright infringement.[i] The FBI conducted their …
The good: The House of Representatives just passed a proposal giving the Federal Trade Commission more power to fine pharmaceutical companies that strike deals to extend drug patent protection. The bad: Pharmaceutical companies are lobbying …
On Monday the Supreme Court issued their long-awaited ruling on Bilski v. Kappos, overturning the lower court’s narrow test and allowing inventors to continue to patent business methods.
The justices unanimously decided against the appellants, …
Apple has recently filed another suit against HTC, maker of the Droid smartphone, for multiple patent infringements.
The iPhone producer originally sued HTC in March for infringing ten of Apple’s patents, including those pertaining to touch-screen …
