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Tag: Damages

Posted on December 6, 2022 Distribution systems

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

Hummel
Posted on May 7, 2022May 12, 2022 Copyright Law

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

Posted on May 5, 2022 Copyright Law

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

Posted on January 4, 2022 Copyright Law

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

Posted on September 24, 2021 Counterfeiting & Piracy

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

Posted on June 17, 2021 Copyright Law

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

Posted on June 2, 2021 Fee Shifting

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

Posted on May 28, 2021 Diversion Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on March 11, 2020March 11, 2020 Copyright Law

Sometimes all of our thoughts are … misgiven?

Misgiven: the wacky 9th Circuit theory of the "inverse ratio" in copyright infringement Read more

Posted on October 30, 2019 Brand Management and Branding Copyright Law Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on October 17, 2019 Copyright Law

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

Posted on March 15, 2019 Internet Law Trademarks and trademark law

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

Posted on December 18, 2018 Copyright Law

Best of 2009: “Infinity Dollars” — IP damages and the jury”

This post, which is the first of two parts (the second part can be found at the link at the end) was first posted on... Read more

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