TorrentFreak has a fascinating article about how Louis Vuitton is suing a 26 year old artist for copyright infringement because she is selling t-shirts and posters depicting a Darfur victim dressed as a Paris Hilton lookalike, complete with Louis Vuitton inspired handbag. Louis Vuitton is asking for as much as $20,000 per day in damages […]
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Copyright Infringement in Support of Darfur?
April 27th, 2008
· 50% say infringement occured.
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Tags:Copyright Infringement, Copyrights, Darfur, Lawsuit, Louis Vuitton, Voting
Bayer Challenges Generic Yasmin Applications
April 25th, 2008
· 50% say infringement occured.
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Bayer AG has filed patent infringement suits against Watson Laboratories, Inc. and Sandoz, Inc. due to their recent filings with the FDA for approval to market generic versions of Bayer’s Yasmin contraceptive prior to Bayer’s patent expiring.
Bayer’s patent is below as are the statements from each company:
Tags:Bayer AG, Patent #5569652, Patents, Pharmaceuticals, Sandoz Inc., Voting, Watson Laboratories Inc., Yasmin
Flip Video Camera maker, Pure Digital Technology Inc, defendant in new patent suit
April 18th, 2008
· 42% say infringement occured.
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Pure Digital Technology, which makes the Flip Video Camera that has captured 13% of the US camcorder market, has recently received a new lawsuit alleging that the camera’s video compression codecs violate US patent no. 5,781,788 that is held by a small Suffern, New York company, Advanced Video Technologies, LLC. The patent is below and […]
Tags:Advanced Video Technologies, Patents, Pure Digital Technology, Voting
JK Rowling and Warner Bros. sue Harry Potter Lexicon publisher
April 15th, 2008
· 50% say infringement occured.
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JK Rowling and Warner Brothers are suing to keep RDR Books, a small publisher in Michigan, from publishing a Harry Potter Lexicon. Rowling was in court in New York yesterday, testifying against the publisher, RDR, and author, Steve Vander Ark. Both Rowling’s declaration to the court and testimony were emotional, invoking the amount of hard […]
Tags:Chery Klein, Copyright, Harry Potter, Harry Potter Lexicon, Jeri Johnson, JK Rowling, Plagiarism, RDR Books, Scholastic, Steve Vander Ark, Voting, Warner Brothers
Seagate begins its onslaught against SSD manufacturers
April 15th, 2008
· 49% say infringement occured.
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Seagate has delivered the first blow of its assault on SSD makers. STEC, a maker of solid state drives for industrial applications, today announced that Seagate has filed suit in a San Francisco court for patent infringement. Earlier this year, Seagate CEO Bill Watkins had foreshadowed the possibility of patent infringement lawsuits against […]
Tags:Patents, Seagate, SSD, STEC, Voting
Snoop Dogg Sued for Copyright Infringement
April 14th, 2008
· 47% say infringement occured.
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Snoop Dogg, the well known rapper, is being sued by James D. Jenkins of Colorado, who alleges that when at a Snoop Dogg concert in 2006, he handed a tape of his music to Ice Cube’s manager. He alleges that samples of the tape ended up in Snoop Dogg’s song, “Sexual Seduction”.
The suit is hand-written by […]
Tags:Copyright, James D. Jenkins, Music, Snoop Dogg, Voting
Juicy Couture and JuicyCampus in trademark dispute
April 12th, 2008
· 52% say infringement occured.
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Juicy Couture is suing JuicyCampus.com for alleged trademark violations.
JuicyCampus is the now infamous sites where college students can post anonymously about each other. It has drawn a great deal of criticism from both educators and students alike, though its popularity across campuses has only increased.
Juicy Couture, on the other hand, is a […]
Tags:Juicy Couture, JuicyCampus, Trademarks, Voting
