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Licensor’s Fraud and Lanham Act Claims Survive Motion to Dismiss in Pennsylvania Federal Court

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A federal court in Pennsylvania granted in part and denied in part a licensee’s motion to dismiss the licensor’s breach of contract, fraud, and Lanham Acts claims. Westbrook Monster Mix Co. v. Easy Gardener Prods., Inc., 2024...more

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College Product Licensing in Danger?

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Product licensing at the academic level is a great source of revenue for colleges and universities. A recent trademark case could have real world implications on its continued viability. PSU’s Trademark Infringement Lawsuit...more

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Notice Letters and Communications May Form a Basis for Personal Jurisdiction

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APPLE INC. v. ZIPIT WIRELESS, INC. [OPINION]- PRECEDENTIAL - Before Hughes, Mayer and Stoll.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Summary: Notice letters and related...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Ninth Circuit Limits Ability of Indirect Purchaser Classes to Bring Nationwide Suits

The Ninth Circuit has held that a putative class of nationwide consumers that brought damages claims under California law was erroneously certified. Until now, class actions asserting claims for plaintiffs across the country...more

Saiber LLC

Southern District of New York Rejects Ninth Circuit’s Copyright Analysis Regarding Embedded Images

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In a recent case, Nicklen v. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, rejecting the rationale of a case decided by the United States Court of Appeals for the...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

Federal Judge Finds Copyright Issues “Embedded” in Social Media Re-Posts

Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York recently denied a motion to dismiss in a copyright dispute involving the unlicensed “embedding” of a social media video. In doing so, the court explicitly and definitively...more

Lathrop GPM

The Franchise Memorandum - Issue # 260

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Welcome to The Franchise Memorandum by Lathrop GPM, formerly known as The GPMemorandum. Periodically, The Franchise Memorandum focuses on topics primarily of interest to companies that use distributors and dealers rather than...more

Kidon IP

The ACT | APPLE Association Charade

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Apple and the Fearsome five are doing it again.   The same people who pushed the fallacious “troll bogeyman”; engaged in PTAB proxy warfare, seemingly immunized by the “real party in interest doctrine”;  invented  the...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Gensetix, Inc. v. Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Fed. Cir. 2020)

In a conundrum worthy of a law school civil procedure examination, plaintiff Gensetix found itself apparently with no remedy for infringement by Baylor College of Medicine, Diakonos Research Ltd., and William Decker of...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Action Seeking Judgment of Compliance with FRAND Obligations Survives Only Insofar as it Relates to U.S. Patent Rights

Optis Wireless Technology, LLC filed a declaratory judgment action in the Eastern District of Texas seeking judgment that it complied with its fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) obligations when it offered a...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Syncing Workout Music with Licensing Requirements

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2019 brought many changes for fitness companies compiling the perfect playlist for group workout classes, especially for at-home virtual classes. Peloton’s most popular product is an indoor bicycle with live streaming and...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Federal Circuit Holds Ambiguity in License Terms Precludes Dismissal on the Pleadings

Although a valid license can provide a complete defense to patent infringement, the tangled web created when the defense is predicated on a sublicensee’s rights following bankruptcy of the sublicensor may preclude resolution...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Federal Circuit Says Motion to Dismiss Stage Too Early to Use Patent License Defense - Intellectual Property News

Last week, the Federal Circuit revived a patent infringement suit brought by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung E.V. against Sirius XM Radio Inc. in the District of Delaware when it vacated the...more

Knobbe Martens

Sublicense May Survive Termination of a Main License

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FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT v. SIRIUS XM RADIO INC. Before Dyk, Linn, and Taranto.  Appeal from the District of Delaware. Summary:  Contract interpretation must be applied in determining whether a sublicense survives...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Three Point Shot - June 2019

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Welcome to Three Point Shot, a newsletter brought to you by the Sports Law Group at Proskauer. Three Point Shot brings you the latest in sports law-related news and provides you with links to related materials. We hope you...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Insincere Licensing Discussions Can Support a Willful Infringement Claim

A recent order from the Northern District of California provides patent practitioners interesting guidance regarding conduct during licensing discussions—and may be a cautionary tale to potential licensors engaged in...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Franchisor Bankruptcy Case Dismissed as a Bad Faith Filing

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The United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware recently issued an opinion discussing the tension between using bankruptcy as a legitimate tool to maximize value versus using bankruptcy merely as a litigation...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Sued Customers Insufficient to Prove a Supplier’s Actual Case or Controversy Against Patentee

In an interesting order issued recently in BroadSign International, LLC v. T-Rex Property AB, Judge Swain of the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the Plaintiff’s declaratory judgment of...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Indirect Purchasers Cannot Sue Qualcomm Under Federal Law, But State Law Claims Survive

A federal judge in California has refused to allow indirect purchasers of semiconductor chips—i.e., cell phone consumers—to bring claims against Qualcomm under federal antitrust law....more

Jones Day

Eleventh Amendment Revisited – Board Again Finds Sovereign Immunity Applies to PTAB

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Less than four months after its decision in Covidien LP v. University of Florida Research Foundation Incorporated, finding that Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity applies to PTAB proceedings, the Board has again dismissed...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Court Ruling Supports Contractual and Statutory Enforcement of Open Source Software Licenses

Despite the prevalence of open source software and its ubiquitous use in the software industry, there has been little litigation in the United States analyzing and interpreting the terms of open source licenses. On April 25,...more

Carlton Fields

In Battle Over Patents, Non-Signatory Ties Too Uncertain To Grant Motion To Dismiss

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The District Court of Colorado recently denied Defendant Garmin International’s motions to dismiss and to stay pending arbitration, concluding that Plaintiff MSPBO was not bound by an arbitration agreement to which it was not...more

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