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News & Analysis as of May 24, 2013

Arbitral Award of Perpetual License Upheld by Fifth Circuit

by JAMS, The Resolution Experts on 5/15/2013

Once in a while it seems the people who design live-action war-based video games get into real-world non-virtual disputes of their own. When “Timegate” promised to “Southpeak” that it would design a videogame named “Section...more

Game Developer’s Conduct Justified Granting Publisher a Permanent Royalty-Free License

by Sean Kane | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 4/26/2013

On April 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit issued an order upholding an arbitration award against a video game developer and granting a publisher a perpetual license in the developer’s game due to the...more

Litigation Costs Are Monopolization Damages

by Howard Ullman on 7/3/2012

In the ongoing Apple v. Samsung war, on June 30, 2012, Judge Lucy H. Koh of the Northern District of California denied Samsung’s bid for summary judgment on the basis that Apple had failed to offer any evidence of antitrust...more

Canadian Domain Name Decisions & Stats

by Field Law on 5/24/2012

This month marks the 25th year of operations for the .CA domain, Canada’s country-code top-level domain (ccTLD). It was originally allocated to John Demco, an employee of UBC, who operated the domain on a volunteer basis...more

Intellectual Property Dispute Resolution in the UK

by Jane Lambert on 11/2/2011

What to do if someone appears to infringe your patent, copyright, design, trade mark or other intellectual property right or accuses you of infringing his or her rights? Litigation is expensive in England and Wales and...more

Dispute Resolution Processes in Entertainment Contracts

by Heenan Blaikie LLP on 10/19/2011

James Kosa wrote an interesting and thoughtful piece over at slaw last week: Shape-Shifting Dispute Processes: Adapting the Process to the Type of IT Dispute. In it, he discusses "alternative dispute resolution (mediation or...more

Confidentiality Agreement

by Jane Lambert on 9/21/2010

A general purpose confidentiality agreement. Such an agreement would be suitable for discussions between joint adventurers or between an inventor or entrepreneur and a possible investor. This draft spells out the...more