Technology & Marketing Law Blog
APRIL 27, 2024
This is a false advertising lawsuit again the mobile app game Game of Thrones: Conquest. The account formation process included a screen where a user could proceed only by clicking on the “play” button: Warner Bros. sought to send the case to arbitration. The district court disagreed. Warner Bros. gets a more favorable response on appeal to the Ninth Circuit.
Barry Sookman
APRIL 27, 2024
Copyright lawyers always want to keep up with developments in copyright law. Earlier this week I gave my annual copyright update to copyright lawyers at an ALAI Canada meeting. A copy of my presentation can be accessed below. The cases I canvassed are listed below. The focus of my talk was on copyright developments that would be of interest to Canadian lawyers.
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The IPKat
APRIL 27, 2024
Litigation involving the alleged infringement of rights in ready-to-wear clothing is a frequent occurrence [ IPKat here , here ]. Analysis of these cases often raises questions about the conditions for protection under copyright and design law, and even about the concept of cumulative protection. A recent ruling issued by the Tribunal Judiciaire of Paris (TJ) provides a further illustration of these issues.
Likelihood of Confusion
APRIL 27, 2024
It’s going to be a Who’s Who of trademark bloggery! Here’s a sample of those intrepid secondary-meaners besides your hosts (see infra) who have blogged about the upcoming Meet the Bloggers extravaganza in Boston, beginning at 8pm this coming Monday night at Lucky’s Lounge, 355 Congress Street: Seattle TM Lawyer: “It just keeps getting bigger […] The post “Meet the Bloggers” 2010 appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.
Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera
Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?
IP Law 360
APRIL 27, 2024
The promoter of the 1969 Woodstock music fair agreed Friday to drop infringement claims against a rival purveyor of "Woodstock" trademarks in the evolving marijuana market, in a last-minute Manhattan federal court deal that avoids a jury trial.
TorrentFreak
APRIL 27, 2024
In the summer of 2009, hackers from all over the world gathered at an outdoor conference near Vierhouten in the Netherlands. The event was mostly a meetup of like-minded geeks, but one person stood out a mile; Tim Kuik, director of anti-piracy group BREIN. Kuik joined a panel discussion where he calmly explained why his organization helped rightsholders to shut down pirate sites.
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