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Los Angeles Business Litigation Lawyer | Appeals Court Says Companies Fighting Over Toys Are Acting Like Children

In an April 2011 Associated Press video, University of Southern California intellectual property law expert Jack Lerner summarizes some of the issues in a long-running dispute between rival toy makers Mattel, Inc. and MGA Entertainment, Inc. over the billion-dollar Bratz doll line. Mattel first filed a lawsuit in 2004, alleging that the designer of the toys, Carter

February 8, 2013

Los Angeles Copyright Infringement Attorney | Will ‘Escape From Tomorrow’ Escape Disney’s Legal Wrath?

In a video interview with Roy Abramsohn, the actor who stars in the horror fantasy film “Escape From Tomorrow,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the actor discusses copyright material. Abramsohn plays a father going insane at Walt Disney World, and the movie is garnering attention because writer and director Randy Moore filmed on

February 6, 2013

Los Angeles Business Litigation Attorney | TNA Taps Out of Lawsuit Against WWE

Professional wrestler Ric Flair returned to World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) during the December 2012 event. However, several months before that show, rival promoter Total Nonstop Action (TNA) filed a lawsuit against WWE after Flair reportedly backed out of his TNA contract in order to return to the competitor. The other defendant named in the

February 4, 2013

Los Angeles Copyright Infringement Lawyer | Desmond Howard Heisman Pose Photographer Files Lawsuit

A timeless video exists online showing a 93-yard punt return for a touchdown by the University of Michigan’s Desmond Howard in a 1991 game against Ohio State. In the end zone, Howard struck a pose similar to the Heisman Trophy, the award annually given to the most outstanding player in college football. Howard indeed went

February 1, 2013

Los Angeles Business Litigation Lawyer | To Err is Human; To Infringe, Breach was ‘Too Human’

Back in November, we wrote about a federal judge ordering Canadian video game developer Silcon Knights to recall and destroy all unsold copies of Too Human. This was the result of a nasty court battle beginning in 2007, and the judge also ordered all other games containing North Carolina-based Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 game engine be recalled

January 30, 2013

Los Angeles Copyright Infringement Attorney | Rapper, Producer Settle $10 Million Lawsuit

A music video exists for the 2010 song “Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza” by Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller. The track appeared on Miller’s mixtape K.I.D.S., which Rolling Stone said “became a breakout Internet hit for the then-rising rapper.” However, hip hop artist and producer Lord Finesse claimed that “Kool Aid” used beats from his own 1995

January 28, 2013

Los Angeles Breach of Contract Lawyer | AMD Claims Former Employees Took Over 100K Files to Competitor

The technology news and information website Ars Technica reported that Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) filed a lawsuit against four former employees it alleges “collectively downloaded over 100,000 files onto external hard drives in the six months before leaving” to join competing graphics chip maker Nvidia. The company also alleges that the

January 25, 2013

Los Angeles Trademark Infringement Attorney | ECU Sues Cisco, Claims Infringement ‘Starts Here’

In late 2012, networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. launched a marketing and branding campaign with print, television and web advertisements featuring the tagline “Tomorrow Starts Here.” As the technology news website All Things Digital noted, the campaign came after a year of “gut-wrenching round of layoffs” that involved the company cutting 6,500 jobs and eliminating

January 23, 2013

Los Angeles Unfair Competition Lawyer | California DAs Collect Over $850K From Holes in Fidelity’s ‘Transaction Point’

An informational video about “Transaction Point,” a real estate software system developed by the Jacksonville, Florida-based title insurance company Fidelity National Financial is available online. Fidelity developed “Transaction Point” and its web-based referral system in 2002 to assist brokers in preparing transaction documents and ordering related real estate settlement services, such as escrow, title insurance

January 21, 2013

Los Angeles Copyright Infringement Attorney | Latest Dylan Release Shows European Copyright Laws Are a-Changin’

Shortly after Christmas, Sony Music released a compilation of Bob Dylan recordings that the New York Times reported “is bound to become one of his most collectible albums.” Sony produced only about 100 copies of “The 50th Anniversary Collection,” a four-CD set of previously unreleased studio outtakes and live recordings from 1962 and 1963. Copies

January 18, 2013

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