On March 30th, 2018, the legal battle between Lindsay Lohan and Take-Two Interactive came to its expected conclusion.[footnote]See Owen Good, Lindsay Lohan’s lawsuit against Grand Theft Auto 5 was shot...
87 million. That’s the number of raw user profiles amassed from Facebook by political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica (“Cambridge”) during the 2016 election (at last count).[footnote]Josh Constine & Taylor Hatmaker,...
The spectrum of distinctiveness is an important element of trademark law that determines the strength of a trademark. A major requirement for trademark eligibility is to show that the mark...
A patent’s purpose is to promote technological innovation and progress in the useful arts and sciences. A patent owner is allotted a private right in the form of a monopoly...
The Oil States Energy Services v. Greene’s Energy Group case has become famous in the intellectual property world, largely because of what the holding has been interpreted to mean about...
Under the copyright statute, potential infringers latch onto the “fair use” exception, especially with respect to new technology products, because of their transformative nature – with the influx and intelligence...
The 1946 Lanham Act governs the federal registration of trademarks.[footnote]See Louis S. Ederer, et al., Supreme Court Strikes Down 70-Year-Old Statutory Provision Barring the Registration of "Disparaging" Trademarks, Arnold &...
Last summer, Riot Games, a U.S. video game company, sued Moonton, a Chinese video game developer, in the Central District of California for alleged copyright infringements.[footnote]Complaint, Riot Games, Inc. v....
In late February 2017, Google’s self-driving car unit, known as Waymo, filed a lawsuit against Uber alleging that Anthony Levandowski, a former engineer for Waymo, had taken 14,000 confidential documents...
On December 14th, 2017, a majority of FCC commissioners voted to repeal the net neutrality rules promulgated by the Obama administration.[footnote]Restoring Internet Freedom, 82 Fed. Reg. 25,569 (adopted Dec. 14,...
