Dear Dr. C, I heard that a copyright troll died recently…what’s the scoop? Sincerely, Morbidly Interested Dear Morbidly, Righthaven LLC is a company that has brought hundreds of law suits for copyright infringement against web sites, bloggers, and mainstream media companies that have used content from the Las Vegas Review Journal. Quotations as small as […]
Litigation
Cold Milk for Chocolate Milk – Part II
March 31, 2011
Litigation, Trademark
As our readers may remember, we previously discussed the battle royal shaping up over an iPhone application (app) that mimics milk in an iPhone “glass.” While seemingly amusing, the app business is big business with Apple reporting sales of 2.4 billion dollars in apps in 2009. Further, the issue of what constitutes the “look and […]
Federal Courts’ Continued Hostility Toward Complex Patent Issues
February 28, 2011
Litigation, Patent
In the recently-decided case of In re Katz Interactive Call Processing Patent Litigation, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (which hears all appeals of patent cases) determined that trial courts may limit the number of patent claims that may be asserted by a patent owner in a litigation, regardless of the complexity of […]