This year’s Coachella music festival has its share of intellectual property issues. Attorneys for the festival have recently cracked down on counterfeit goods and asked a federal court judge to issue a preliminary injunction against certain vendors.

Louis Vuitton sent a cease and desist letter to the University of Pennsylvania over a student group’s symposium poster.

Hadopi, France’s agency responsible for protecting intellectual property rights on the Internet, has sent its first load of cases of Internet users who allegedly illegally downloaded films and music for prosecution.

PMC, a Texas-based company, has sued the world’s biggest online game developer for patent infringement over four patents.

Madonna may be facing some legal trouble for her newest album. Joe Francis claims that the Queen of Pop is infringing on his Girls Gone
Wild trademark.

Under the DMCA, jailbreaking is an exemption to the anti-circumvention provisions. However, the exemption expires in 2012 and a digital rights advocacy group is petitioning the Copyright Office to extend the jailbreaking exemption.

Louis Vuitton has sued Warner Brothers for trademark dilution over a counterfeit handbag in “The Hangover Part II”.

The New York Times’ Motherlode blog gained acclaim in blogging communities for covering a variety of hot topics relating to parenting. However, the lead writer for the Times’ blog recently left to start a parenting blog at The Huffington Post with a similar name. Last week, the New York Times filed suit for trademark infringement over the blog title.

This past Halloween, I’m sure we all have seen plenty of interesting costumes. However, out of the many superhero costumes I saw trick-or-treating, one was missing. I did not see anyone dressed as a Power Ranger. It may have something to do with the current lawsuit regarding the Halloween costumes.

A federal judge in California dismissed a suit for copyright infringement brought by educational video producers against UCLA.