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A court in the Southern District Court of New York recently denied the claim of pharmaceutical company Dey, Inc. that a defendant, Sunovion Pharmaceutical Inc., had been infringing on Dey’s patents. Sunovion argued that Dey’s patents were not valid because Sunovion had conducted clinical trials on the chemical compound more than a year prior to Dey’s applying for the patent. The court found that because those clinical trials amounted to public use, Dey’s patents were not valid and therefore Sunovion did not infringe.

Fox Television has launched a copyright infringement suit against network founder Barry Diller, claiming his new digital streaming television service Aereo infringes upon the copyright protection afforded the content of broadcasters’ television programming.

Earlier this year Newt Gingrich was sent a cease and desist letter for his use of “Eye of the Tiger” during his campaign, but it was hardly the first time a politician got in trouble for their use of (sometimes anachronistic) songs in their campaigning.

This article presents context and discussion in response to a Washington Post blog discussing copyright access and Internet freedom, and specifically to five proposals authored by freedom advocates for consideration in the next copyright infringement debate.

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

If you spend a lot of time on the Internet, you’ve probably heard of Pinterest. You might not have any idea what it is, but you’ve seen it mentioned, possibly alongside Tumblr or Spotify, as …

The USPTO has announced its pilot program “Patents for Humanity” as one more tool in attempting to cure worldwide ills.

A Croatian journalist alleges that Angelina Jolie copied the storyline from his book, The Soul Shattering, in her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey. Both works feature a romance between star-crossed lovers engaged in a struggle for survival among the tragedies of the Bosnian Civil War.

New York’s legendary Naked Cowboy filed a lawsuit against CBS last year over a conspicuously similar naked cowboy appearing on the show “The Bold and the Beautiful.” The Southern District of New York recently dismissed the suit for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.