Re-registration doesn’t violate Anticybersquatting Act 
Published: September 27, 2011
Tags: Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, intellectual property
Defendants didn’t violate federal anticybersquatting law when they re-registered an Internet domain name that was confusingly similar to the plaintiff’s service mark, the 9th Circuit has ruled in reversing judgment.
Internet keywords may not be trademark-protected
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: March 9, 2011
Tags: intellectual property, Lanham Act, trademark
A business may not have violated intellectual property law by using a competitor’s trademark as an Internet search term in order to attract visitors to its website, the 9th Circuit has ruled.
Court strikes method used for determining patent case damages
By:
David Frank
Published: January 13, 2011
Tags: damages, intellectual property, patent infringement, patent law
A rule that lawyers and judges have been using to determine damages in patent infringement cases has been abolished by the Federal Circuit.
Court: Risk-hedging strategy can’t be patented
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: June 28, 2010
Tags: intellectual property, patent
Businessmen could not seek a patent on an investment concept that purported to show energy market investors how to hedge against the risk of price changes, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: June 28, 2010
Tags: intellectual property, patent
Businessmen could not seek a patent on an investment strategy that purported to show energy market investors how to hedge against the risk of price changes.
California law governs domain name dispute
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: April 6, 2010
Tags: choice of law, domain name, intellectual property
A dispute over a domain name is governed by California law, which treats a domain name as intellectual property, the 9th Circuit has ruled.
US Bank must pay $27M in patent case
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: March 30, 2010
Tags: intellectual property
A federal district court jury has ruled that U.S. Bank should pay $27 million to a Texas company that accused the bank of infringing on patented technology for processing checks.
Calif. court has jurisdiction over domain names
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: March 1, 2010
Tags: Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, domain names, intellectual property
The Northern District of California has jurisdiction over domain names in a dispute under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, the 9th Circuit has ruled.
Judge vacates $1.26B ruling against PepsiCo
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: November 9, 2009
Tags: intellectual property
A Wisconsin judge has tossed out a decision — for now at least — that could have cost PepsiCo Inc. $1.26 billion after the soft drink maker didn’t respond to a lawsuit claiming it stole the idea for bottled water.
Misplaced letter costs Pepsi $1.3B
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: November 2, 2009
Tags: intellectual property
A Wisconsin judge has ordered PepsiCo Inc. to pay $1.26 billion to two men who said it stole their idea to sell purified water after a secretary mislaid a document alerting the world’s No. 2 soft drink maker the lawsuit existed.
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