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Google Successfully Defends $600 Million Patent Lawsuit Brought by Company with No Programming Expertise
I don’t usually write about Patent law issues, but this story from The Prior Art is fascinating, and is certainly relevant to copyright and trademark. Essentially, Google successfully defended a patent infringement lawsuit brought by a “patent holding company” or “patent troll,” which is a company that does nothing but file patents. Once the patents [...]
Recap Firefox Extension for Pacer
There is this thing called “PACER.” It’s essentially the federal court’s document filing system. Any person can register for the service and then search for and download documents related to a case such as the court filings and the court’s opinion. There is a catch however: the service costs 8 cents a page. This may [...]
The Effects of Litigant Behavior: Usenet.com Liable for Infringement
Yesterday, Usenet.com and its owner, Gerald Reynolds, were found liable for direct infringement, inducement of infringement, contributory infringement, and vicarious infringement and discovery misconduct. There are several lessons to be learned here: for online service providers, don’t assist your users in downloading copyrighted material and don’t market your service as a provider of pirated material. [...]
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Suing a Cybersquatter: Taking One Letter Out Of A URL Isn’t Enough
In a case recently decided by the Eastern District, a judge upheld a jury’s decision to find a man liable for $1,000 for “cybersquatting,” where he registered “www.hamptonlocations.com” in spite of the existence of “www.hamptonslocations.com.”
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