GOP candidate Newt Gingrich and his campaign were sued for copyright infringement in federal court yesterday for reportedly playing the band Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" song at Gingrich campaign events, but without obtaining rights to do so (Read the lawsuit below). Plaintiff Rude Music, Inc. is a music publishing…
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Don't the patent wars involving Apple, Samsung, and Motorola Mobility feel like they're being waged almost daily? Motorola Mobility filed the latest salvo with a new patent infringement lawsuit against Apple in a Florida federal court (see below). The new case accuses Apple of, among other things, violating its patent…
The U.S. International Trade Commission issued an eagerly awaited determination today in the ongoing Apple iOS v. Android OS patent war, giving a win for Motorola Mobility, whose $12.5 billion acquisition by Google is pending. ITC Administrative Law Judge Theodore R. Essex's initial determination was that Motorola's Droids smartphones do…
With a Kodak bankruptcy reportedly in the works, the legendary photography business filed patent infringement lawsuits against Apple and HTC today (see below). Kodak, the designer and builder of the first operating digital camera, alleges that Apple, Inc. is infringing four of its digital imaging patents, and that HTC is…
On the Internet, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to be rich and famous. Popularity can help! Take Snooki for example. The MTV star extended the reach of her intellectual property by licensing rights to her name, images, and more in a "Snookify Me" app for the iPhone…
The J.M. Smucker Company is mad as hell at Lodsys, and the jam and jelly maker isn't going to take the firm's demands for patent licensing fees anymore. Lodsys is a patent owner that routinely alleges that companies are violating patents in its IP portfolio that cover web commerce, information…
Apple's Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, Jonathan Ive, began 2012 as a Knight, a high honor bestowed upon him, and 984 other people, (see list below) by Queen Elizabeth II. More specifically, a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, or KBE. A trusted confidant…
Can gaming company Zynga successfully obtain trademark rights to all things ending in ville, the French word for a town or village? Answering that question is a task facing two federal courts. Before it launched its billion dollar IPO, the San Francisco-based tech company threatened to sue computer game makers…
Forty years after acquiring publishing rights to the award-winning children's book "Julie of the Wolves" by author Jean Craighead George, HarperCollins is claiming copyright infringement by Open Road, a Manhattan e-book publisher distributing the work electronically via downloads on Amazon.com, Apple, and others e-commerce web sites. The outcome of the…
Deal sites like Groupon and Living Social make money by offering discounts for products and services to a large pool of web subscribers. But what happens if the merchandise being offered for sale may be counterfeit, unauthorized versions of authentic merchandise? If you're clothing and fashion accessories designer Gotham Licensing…