The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana has issued an order prohibiting defendants from selling generic versions of Cymbalta (duloxetine hydrochloride) during the drug’s remaining patent term. The order arises from ongoing litigation in the case Eli Lilly and Co. v. Wockhardt Ltd.

In response to a trademark lawsuit brought by Apple against Amazon for the company’s use of the term “App store,” Amazon claims that the term cannot be trademarked because it is too generic.  Amazon filed …

CNN sues Haiti Live Networks over its use of “HLN” mark, which CNN has been using since 2008. CNN claims that the use is willful, intentional, and deliberate, and is asking for triple the normal damages against the small Haitian news service.

Wegmans and Walgreens just settled their trademark war over W’s. Despite the fact that that case was settled, there is a lot to discuss about what possible confusion existed.

A recently filed Righthaven copyright suit tries the novel legal strategy of using a previously failed legal strategy.

Two weeks ago, those who had pirated a computer game started receiving an ominous-sounding error. Users who reported this error were then publicly shamed and banned from receiving technical support. This approach was an effective digital rights management system that didn’t affect legal owners of the game.

The American University Intellectual Property Brief is proud to announce Volume 2, Issue 3 of its publication.

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The human rights implications of intellectual property rights have received growing attention over recent years.  Regardless of the approach taken, it is clear that both human rights …

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Historically, the Supreme Court has compared patent and copyright laws.  These comparisons frequently result in the application of some patent doctrines to copyright law.  For example, the Supreme Court …

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The human genome contains approximately 23,000 protein-coding genes. Approximately twenty percent of these human genes are patented, with some genes being patented as many as twenty times.  On May 12, …