Intellectual Property News and Reports

This is a copyright infringement action involving computer software code. Pursuant to a consent decree, the district court appointed a special master to review the software and to opine on the issue of infringement. The special master found copyright infringement... Read more →

Hallmark Cards, Inc. (Hallmark), hired Monitor Company Group, L.P. (Monitor), to compile research on the greeting cards market. Monitor transmitted confidential market research it had prepared for Hallmark to a private equity firm called Monitor Clipper Partners, LLC (Clipper), the... Read more →

Appeal from a September 10, 2012, order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Batts, J.), granting the Defendant‐Appellee’s motion to dismiss. We consider whether an earlier litigation between the parties resolving, inter alia,... Read more →

Held: Static Control has adequately pleaded the elements of a Lanham Act cause of action for false advertising. Pp. 6–22. (a) The question here is whether Static Control falls within the class of plaintiffs that Congress authorized to sue under... Read more →

Plaintiff–Appellant Hornady Manufacturing Company, Inc., appeals from a district court order granting summary judgment to Defendant–Appellee DoubleTap, Inc., on Hornady’s trademark infringement claims. Our jurisdiction arises under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm. Download Hornady Manufacturing Co. v. Doubletap Read more →

The Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1051–1127, prohibits the infringement of trademarks (used to identify products) and service marks (used to identify services). It was enacted in 1946, but because it speaks in general terms it can be applied to... Read more →

This is an expedited appeal from the grant of a preliminary injunction barring defendants Biolitec AG ("BAG"), Biolitec, Inc. ("BI"), Biomed Technology Holdings, Ltd., and Wolfgang Neuberger from completing a merger between the Germanbased BAG and its Austrian subsidiary, and... Read more →

Klein-Becker USA and Klein-Becker IP Holdings (collectively “Klein-Becker”) sued Patrick Englert and Mr. Finest, Inc., for trademark infringement, copyright infringement, false advertising, and unfair competition under the Lanham Act; false advertising under the Utah Truth in Advertising Act; unfair competition... Read more →

The Associated Press Friday, December 1, 2006; 6:25 AM WASHINGTON -- U.S. companies will need to keep track of all the e-mails, instant messages and other electronic documents generated by their employees thanks to new federal rules that go into... Read more →

Why Incorporate? Operating a business without incorporating exposes all of one’s personal assets to liability. The primary reason to incorporate a business is to prevent personal liability for business debts and claims. After incorporation, claims against a business may only... Read more →