The European Union’s highest court will have another opportunity to consider the issue of the liability of online platforms for copyright infringing content uploaded and shared by users. Two referrals from national courts (one Austrian and one German) are pending before the Court of Justice, continue reading...
Who doesn’t love a secret menu, where one discovers delicious off-menu favorites and savors them along with the pleasure of feeling in the know? We’ll let you in on a “secret menu” of sorts for trademarks. A little known area of trademark law involves protection continue reading...
Love him or hate him, everyone agrees that NFL Quarterback Tom Brady is terrific, except the USPTO. Earlier this year, Mr. Brady’s company filed to register the trademark “Tom Terrific” for t-shirts and various other collectible items. Yesterday, the USPTO rejected those applications. Why did continue reading...
Earlier this summer, in The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith, the federal district court for the Southern District of New York held that Andy Warhol’s artwork series depicting the late singer Prince was protectable fair use of a photograph taken by continue reading...
When a judicial opinion refers to a “bitter feud”, a plaintiff “beset by acrimony”, and a “rock star” banker who “faced his peripeteia” (we looked it up for you –it’s Greek for “reversal of fortune”), you know there’s gotta be a good story behind a continue reading...
In 2016, SportFuel sued PepsiCo for using their registered trademark “SPORTFUEL” in a slogan used to advertise Gatorade products. SportFuel is a personalized nutrition consulting firm in Chicago. They also market sports drinks and supplements, like their “energizing phytonutrient powder mix” which contains the antioxidant continue reading...
The decision and damages awarded to Marcus Gray, Emanuel Lambert, and Chike Ojukwu in the Katy Perry “Dark Horse” copyright infringement case last week have the attention of the music industry. We provided some commentary here on the potential impact of the decision on what continue reading...
The world-renowned Danish toy maker Lego has scored an important (albeit partial) win in its nearly 8-year-old copyright litigation against fellow toy maker Best-Lock Construction Toys. On July 25, 2019, Judge Haight of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut issued an opinion continue reading...
New York continued its active legislative session last week, this time by expanding its data breach notification law. The SHIELD Act (Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security), signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo on July 25, 2019, notably expands the definition of a data breach continue reading...
This week, a California jury found that Katy Perry, Capitol Records and a few other players were liable for copyright infringement to the tune of approximately $2,800,000. The offending song is Katy Perry’s runaway smash hit “Dark Horse.” The Plaintiff’s work is a 2008 Christian continue reading...
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