Photographer Christopher Boffoli has filed a lawsuit against Twitter in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, claiming infringement of copyrighted photographs. The complaint alleges that "Twitter users copied numerous photographs from the Disparity Series without license or permission from Boffoli . . . . [and] were…
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Pinterest filed a complaint at the end of August in the Northern District of California against Qian Jin of Nanjing, China, for cyberpiracy, trademark infringement and false designation of origin, trademark dilution, and unfair competition. Specifically, Pinterest claims that Qian purchased dozens of “infringing” domain names that are nearly identical and…
On August 31, View 360 Solutions LLC, a subsidiary of Acacia Research Corp., filed a lawsuit against Google, Inc., alleging that Google’s Street View feature infringed on the following patents: 6,157,385: “Method of and apparatus for performing perspective transformation of visible stimuli” 6,323,862: “Apparatus for generating and interactively viewing spherical…
Happy Friday! As ever, our Daily Summary Writers have been on the look out for interesting opinions to feature in our weekly column - below are two of note from this past week. Christian Louboutin v. Yves Saint Laurent America Inc., US 2nd Cir. (9/05/12) Intellectual Property, Trademark Christian Louboutin,…
Yesterday, Touchscreen Gestures, LLC filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Google Inc. in the Eastern District of Texas. In its complaint, Touchscreen Gestures, LLC alleged that Google products, including the Nexus One, Galaxy Nexus smartphones and Nexus 7 tablet, infringed the following patents: Drag Gesture. U.S. Patent No. 7,184,031 entitled…
On August 29, Multimedia Patent Trust (“MPT”) filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. The patent at issue is U.S. Patent No. 5,500,678, entitled “Optimized Scanning of Transform Coefficients in Video Coding.” In essence, the patent describes a method…
Our Daily Summary Writers have been hard at work, summarizing opinions from all Federal Circuit Courts and all fifty state supreme courts for Justia's daily and weekly newsletters. Below are some opinions of interest that they came across this past week. In re Bacigalupo, California Supreme Court (8/27/12) Civil Rights,…
Mary Cesar, the owner of Mary’s Cakes & Pastries in Northport, Alabama, received a cease-and-desist letter last week from Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC) ordering her to stop selling products decorated with the University of Alabama’s trademarks and logos. Specifically, the letter stated she must stop using, “trademarks, names, logos, colors,…
Blue Spike, LLC filed a patent infringement lawsuit yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas naming 22 defendants, including Facebook. Blue Spike is a technology company owned by self-described inventor and steganographer Scott Moscowitz.
Yesterday, a Northern California jury announced their verdict in one of the most highly anticipated decisions of the high technology era: Samsung must pay Apple $1.05 billion in damages for patent infringement. In that case, Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., both companies alleged numerous patent infringements by the…