Jun 30, 2020 Court sanctions Liebowitz $103K! Requires service of a copy of the order on all of his clients and filing in all of his cases!! But can the Court do that? By Edward H. Rosenthal Tyler Maulsby If you heard a collective gasp last Friday, it could have been caused by the latest news about prolific copyright infringement filer...
Jun 29, 2020 How Artists Can Support Charitable Initiatives Through Art Sales By Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz Artists have a long history of supporting charitable and social justice initiatives. In addition to traditional means of providing...
Jun 29, 2020 Court Deems Vanilla False Advertising Claims Too... Vanilla By Craig Whitney For those following our blogs, you've likely come across discussions of false advertising litigation trends involving the use of terms...
Jun 26, 2020 The G.O.A.T. Trademark Registration Stands, and the Goats With It By Kimberly Maynard Undeterred by his failure to convince the TTAB and the Federal Circuit that Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant and Butik’s federal trade...
Jun 24, 2020 In Defamation Law, Context is Everything. By Maura Wogan That’s the key takeaway from two recent decisions issued by courts in New York and California. The courts dismissed defamation claims on...
Jun 17, 2020 Duke Nukem and the Dangers of Acquired IP in Serial Game Development By Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz Serial development of video game IP is almost as old as the video game industry itself. From Pong Doubles (Atari’s 1973 follow-up...
Jun 16, 2020 Another USPTO Update – Prioritized Examination of COVID-19-Related Applications By Karen Hsieh Starting today, individuals or entities applying for marks in connection with COVID-19-related goods will be able to obtain prioritized...
Jun 14, 2020 Not So Fast: Ninth Circuit Reverses Attorneys’ Fees Award for Voluntary Dismissal of Copyright Complaint By Matthew Samet Last Thursday, the Ninth Circuit held in an unpublished opinion, Criminal Productions, Inc. v. Cordoba, that a defendant is not entitled...
Jun 11, 2020 Twitch Faces the Music: A Sudden Influx of DMCA Takedown Notices Hits Twitch By Rick Zou Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) strikes are finally hitting Twitch over copyrighted music used in streams. Over the past few...
Jun 09, 2020 3M Continues to Use Lanham Act to Combat Nefarious Use of 3M Mark for N-95 Masks By Kimberly Maynard Over the course of the last several months 3M Company, manufacturer of critical N-95 masks, has repeatedly turned to trademark law to...
Jun 08, 2020 Instagram and Embedding Photos - An Update and a Bombshell (?) from Instagram By Brian Murphy Ars TecnicaInstagram just threw users of its embedding API under the bus" - that a company spokesperson for Facebook (which owns...
Jun 07, 2020 Do You Like The Creepy Dolls Horror Subgenre? By Vish Mohan On May 28, 2020, the Central District of California dismissed with prejudice a case—Gregorini v. Apple Inc. et al.—brought by...
Jun 07, 2020 Two SDNY Courts Post Opposite Conclusions on Instagram Fair Use By Matthew Samet On the heels of a stream of copyright lawsuits based on republication of copyrighted images from “embedded” Instagram posts, the U.S....
Jun 05, 2020 May I Have This Dance? Epic Games Prevails in Second Dance Emote Suit. By Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz Things continue to heat up on the dance floor as Fortnite developer and publisher Epic Games, Inc. secured a second decisive victory in...
Jun 04, 2020 Copyright Office DMCA Report: What You Need to Know By Craig Whitney Caren Decter Christina Campbell On May 21, 2020 the Copyright Office published a long-awaited report on Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (the...
Jun 01, 2020 Ninth Circuit Closes Lips on Confusion Claims Against Pucker Vodka By Matthew Samet Last week, a decade-long trademark lawsuit met its end when the Ninth Circuit affirmed a non-infringement judgment for Jim Beam, the...