DDB Tech v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media
Federal Circuit Holds that Automatic Assignment of Employee Rights May Foreclose Certain Defenses By Sarah Sorscher — Edited by David Lawson DDB Technologies, L.L.C. v. Major League Baseball Advanced...
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By Sarah Sorscher Supreme Court to Consider Business Method Patents Patently-O reports that the Supreme Court granted certiorari on Bilski v. Doll. The Court will address whether a patentable “process”...
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By Andrew Jacobs FTC Ready to Regulate Blogs On June 21, The Washington Post reported that revised FTC advertising guidelines, set to be approved late this summer, will explicitly include blogs within...
View ArticleMGA Entertainment, Inc. v. Mattel, Inc.
Ninth Circuit reverses court order granting toymaker Mattel ownership of Bratz doll brand By Abby Lauer – Edited by Janet Freilich MGA Entertainment, Inc. v. Mattel, Inc., No. 09-55673 (9th Cir. July...
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EEOC v. Original Honeybaked Ham Co. of Georgia By Jessica Vosgerchian — Edited by Geng Chen Equal Employment Opportunity Comm’n v. Original Honeybaked Ham Co. of Georgia, No. 11-cv-02560-MSK-MEH (D....
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Zynga and EA Reach Settlement over Zynga’s “The Ville”
Settlement between Zynga and Electronic Arts By Casey Holzapfel – Edited by Andrew Crocker The Chicago Tribune reports that Electronic Arts (EA) and Zynga have reached a settlement agreement regarding...
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By Emma Winer Third Circuit Vacates Hacker Conviction for Improper Venue The United States Court of the Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated the conviction and sentence of Andrew “weev” Auernheimer on...
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Mozilla Announces Resignation of Recently Appointed CEO Brendan Eich...
By Sheri Pan – Edited by Corey Omer Photo By: Mozilla in Europe – CC BY 2.0 On April 3, Mozilla Corporation (“Mozilla”), a subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation most widely known for...
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By Patrick Gutierrez 6th Circuit holds TheDirty.com immune to suit for defamatory comments made on its website Earlier this week the Sixth Circuit held that a gossip site, www.TheDirty.com, was not...
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By Ken Winterbottom Access to nude photos is a ‘perk’ of working at the NSA, Snowden says Edward Snowden recently leaked new information about the infamous NSA global surveillance scandal. In an...
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By Paulius Jurcys CJEU Grants “Causal Event” Jurisdiction for Online Copyright Infringement Cruz Villalón, Advocate General (“AG”) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”), delivered his...
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Second Circuit holds employer-disparaging Facebook activity protected by...
By Bhargav Srinivasan – Edited by Henry Thomas On October 21, 2015, in Triple Play v. National Labor Relations Board, the Second Circuit affirmed a 2014 National Labor Relations Board ruling that...
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District Court Finds Hertz Not Liable for Employees’ Social Media Posts
By Sheri Pan – Edited by Henry Thomas Howard v. Hertz Corp., No. 13-00645 (D. Haw. Jan. 25, 2016), Slip Opinion hosted by Wolters Kluwer. The District Court for the District of Hawaii granted summary...
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