The Supreme Court’s cert grant on the Federal Circuit’s most recent decision in the long-running and highly publicized battle between Oracle and Google appears to confront policy questions as much as legal ones — such as...more
11/19/2019
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Before today’s decision by the United States Supreme Court in Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com, LLC, there were two views on whether a copyright had to be registered, as opposed to an application for...more
3/5/2019
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Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp v Wall-Street.com LLC ,
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Split of Authority ,
The Copyright Act ,
Uniformity
You encounter a website that looks very similar to your company’s website. The similarities make clear that your website was copied. Even worse, it was copied by a competitor.
Whether you hired a professional to...more
... but now the sender wants a lot of money. What should I do? Did I really stumble into a multi-thousand dollar problem just by using an image I found on the Internet? I’ve heard of patent trolls. Is this some sort of...more