Category: Intellectual Property

Los Angeles Copyright Infringement Lawyer | 20th Century Fox Scores Legal ‘Knock Out’ Against Bollywood Filmmakers

The 2010 Hindi film “Knock Out,”was about a businessman being held hostage in a telephone booth be a sniper. If that sounds similar to the 2003 American thriller “Phone Booth,” you are not alone. As India’s New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) reported, “Bollywood is known for brazenly borrowing ‘inspiration’ from Western films,” but the country’s

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Los Angeles Business Litigation Attorney | Brooks May ‘Not Be Big on Social Graces,’ But Lawsuit Alleges Country Star Not Big on Honoring Contract Either

Country music superstar Garth Brooks has filed a lawsuit that alleges fraud and breach of contract. The Tulsa World reported that Brooks’ former business partner, Lisa Sanderson, claims that “The Red Strokes,” a song from Brooks’ hit 1993 album “In Pieces,” was based on a poem that she wrote. Brooks later founded Red Strokes Entertainment Inc.

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Los Angeles Copyright Infringement Attorney | Register of Copyrights Says Law is Showing ‘Strain of its Age,’ Calls for Congressional Action

The US Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante appeared before the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet  Committee on the Judiciary last month. In her prepared remarks, the director of the US Copyright Office said that a major portion of the current copyright statute was enacted in 1976 but it

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Los Angeles Business Litigation Attorney | Jury Orders Cisco to Pay $70 Million in Patent Case

A verdict from a federal jury that found networking equipment corporation Cisco Systems, Inc. fraudulently obtained technology developed by patent licenser XpertUniverse Inc.’s and violated two of the New York-based company’s patents. The jury ordered Cisco to pay $70 million in civil fraud damages and an additional $34,000 in damages for the patent infringement claims.

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Los Angeles Business Litigation Lawyer | One Year After Siding with Motorola in Patent Infringement Case, ITC Judge Rules in Favor of Microsoft

Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. is in good shape in the patent infringement lawsuit it filed against Microsoft Corp. Last April, US International Trade Commission Judge David Shaw ruled that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console violated four of Motorola’s patents and later recommended a ban on the sale of the Xbox console in the United States. However,

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