This past August, a San Jose, California, jury awarded over $1 billion in damages to Apple Inc. in its intellectual property case against Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd. At a hearing tomorrow, Samsung will attempt to have the jury verdict overturned while a judge is also expected to rule on whether to ban several Samsung products from the
Kansas City, Missouri-based Hallmark Cards, Inc. has long been the largest manufacturer of greeting cards in the United States ever since being founded over a century ago. For the past seven years, Hallmark had been engaged in a legal dispute with Monitor Company Group of Massachusetts. On November 19, 2012, the Kansas City Star reported
On Wednesday, we referenced a copyright infringement lawsuit that Warner Bros. settled last year in regards to tattoo art it used for “The Hangover Part II.” On November 20, 2012, Bloomberg reported that the estate of late author J.R.R. Tolkien is suing Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. Entertainment unit for alleged copyright infringement and breach of contract. The
A video released online recently shows gameplay from THQ’s UFC Undisputed 3. The attention to detail on American mixed martial artist Carlos Condit (one of the fighters featured in the clip) includes a striking recreation of a lion tattoo on the welterweight’s rib cage. However, the video game website Kotaku reported on November 17, 2012, that
The German game company Ravensburger claims to have first published the board game “Memory” in February 1959. While there have been many variations of the game since its original release, Ravensburger holds the trademark for the word in more than 40 countries. The trademark protection does not extend to the United States, but the video game news
Canadian video game developer Silicon Knights was ordered to recall and destroy all of its games containing North Carolina-based Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 game engine. The video game news website Gamasutra reported on November 9, 2012, that North Carolina District Judge James Dever stated that Silicon Knights “repeatedly and deliberately copied significant portions of
On Monday, we discussed the settlement Google reached with Rosetta Stone in a trademark infringement lawsuit the language learning software company had filed against the search engine website three years ago. On November 8, 2012, Eric Goldman, Director of the High Tech Law Institute and Associate Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law authored a column for
The Washington Post reported on November 1, 2012, that language learning software developer Rosetta Stone Inc. agreed to drop the trademark infringementlawsuit it filed against Google three years ago after the two companies reached a settlement. Rosetta Stone sued the search site in 2009, accusing it of selling trademarked phrases like “Rosetta Stone” and “language library”
Michael “Shagg” Washington claims to be a backup singer for Cypress Hill, but the hip hop group tweeted in December 2010 that he “is in no way affiliated or associated with the band in any way.” Washington also claimed to have met in 2003 with a group of game developers to discuss details of his
A video released online recently discusses the so-called “six strikes” anti-piracy system agreed to by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and five major Internet service providers (ISPs). All of these groups helped fund the Center for Copyright Information (CCI), but the CCI’s selection of the digital risk
