Suing bloggers for dollars
Glenn Reynolds links to a an article in Wired about a newspaper “chain”‘s — actually, lawyer Steve Gibson’s — “new business model”: Suing bloggers who post newspaper... Read more
Tag: Damages
Death By Lawyer
Originally, originally posted 2007-06-13 20:42:40. Republished by Blog Post Promoter They make that sound like a bad thing. Now, I wouldn’t agree with each and every little... Read more
Humdinger of a copyright case
How can a statute of limitations for copyright infringement bar a state law claim for an accounting of profits between co-authors brought under diversity jurisdiction?... Read more
Statutory damages in copyright, and the Tenenbaum case
Statutory Damages and the Tenenbaum Litigation: Doug Lichtman out at UCLA sends this along: Joel Tenenbaum looks a lot like every other defendant who has... Read more
Little claims, big idea?
A major theme around here is the proposition that copyright law encourages litigation of even the most tenuous plaintiffs’ claims, mainly because of the rules... Read more
Bringing big IP plaintiffs down a peg — or two
Mike Atkins is paying attention to Microsoft’s IP docket, as a Seattle Trademark Lawyer will do. He’s reporting about a default judgment and award the... Read more
Someone dropped in an extra zero, right? RIGHT?
It’s a month-old story, and how it got past us here notwithstanding, it’s not getting past us now. Per the ABA Journal, remember the Bratz... Read more
Show me the money
Copyright is happening all over the place! Now, a slight digression from the stemwinder I’m about to release here on fee shifting in copyright cases.... Read more
The second time as farce
On the occasion of the S&L Vitamins v. Australian Gold trial, I reposted what I wrote here six months earlier about the first of these... Read more
Just what we choose it to mean
When trademark lawyers — much less judges — use a word, it means just what they choose it to mean — neither more nor less.... Read more
Sometimes all of our thoughts are … misgiven?
Misgiven: the wacky 9th Circuit theory of the "inverse ratio" in copyright infringement Read more
Fat lady sings: Findings of Facts and Conclusions of Law in Designer Skin v S & L Vitamins
The District of Arizona ruled today in a case we defended through trial and have reported on here extensively. The decision is here; the minute... Read more
Goodbye, dolly
Pamela Chestek reports on the dizzying fallout of the Bratz litigation. Originally posted 2012-12-27 15:00:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
S&L v. Australian Gold: You, the Jury
Here’s S&L Vitamin’s Trial Brief for the trial scheduled for next week in the above-entitled cause. (Or you can read it at the bottom of... Read more