By Scott Graham | December 15, 2020
Paul Fakler's clients have ranged from Sirius XM Satellite Radio to The Allman Brothers Band. He brings significant experience handling rate-setting proceedings before the Copyright Royalty Board.
By Scott Graham | December 11, 2020
Asked at a conference about upcoming trials in January, the Western District of Texas judge says "we are going to take even additional steps to make things safe over what we did before."
By Scott Graham | December 11, 2020
Lenovo goes tit-for-tat on standard-essential patents and BlackBerry did not get the results it wanted at the Federal Circuit.
By Scott Graham | December 7, 2020
A Federal Circuit panel sounded as if it disagreed with U.S. District Judge George Wu about the eligibility of patents BlackBerry is asserting against the social network and against Snap. But BlackBerry will still have to overcome PTO invalidity rulings to fully restart its case.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Peter Brown | December 7, 2020
In an otherwise routine copyright case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit addressed whether a foreign actor whose adult content website is accessed by users in the United States can be sued in Arizona.
By Phillip Bantz | December 7, 2020
"We do not allow counterfeits in our store and we take aggressive action to hold bad actors that attempt to evade our proactive protections accountable," stated Cristina Posa, associate general counsel and director of Amazon's counterfeit crimes unit.
By Catherine Wilson | December 7, 2020
The artists behind "Despacito" won summary judgment in a lawsuit by a songwriter who claimed his 11-year-old composition was copied.
By Scott Graham | December 4, 2020
It's the Battle of Big Pharma, again, at the Federal Circuit.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Robert A. Esposito | November 25, 2020
At stake for the parties are the copyright protections afforded to Oracle's application programing interface (API) previously used by Google to provide the functionality of Google's highly popular Android mobile operating system installed on billions of mobile devices worldwide.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Robert W. Clarida and Robert J. Bernstein | November 19, 2020
Is a state law claim for unauthorized commercial use of an individual's name, voice or likeness—i.e., a right of publicity (ROP) claim—preempted by the federal Copyright Act, when the defendant violates the ROP by reproducing or otherwise exploiting a copyrighted work that embodies such name/voice/likeness? In this edition of their Copyright Law column, Robert W. Clarida and Robert J. Bernstein examine a recent case that addressed this issue.
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