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A recent decision from a California federal district court should make patent prosecutors and their clients more alert when looking at recent prior art references: they may refer to patent applications filed by competitors...more
Recent case law confirms that trade secret owners should proactively investigate any suspicions of theft, and if they do not, they may be at greater risk of being barred under the statute of limitations than they may expect....more
Eight NBA teams recently filed an amicus curiae brief supporting a petition that asks the Supreme Court to reject application of the discovery rule to copyright cases. The discovery rule starts the clock for bringing a...more
This month’s cases involve a cert petition to the U.S. Supreme Court on the extraterritorial application of the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, a matter of first impression before the Court of Federal Claims, and a reminder...more
Welcome to WilmerHale’s bulletin on recent trade secret case law and relevant news items. We’ve affectionately nicknamed it “Readily Ascertainable” because, unlike a trade secret, it should be easy to figure out....more
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in a copyright infringement case could have far-reaching implications by allowing plaintiffs to seek damages under the Copyright Act for greater periods of time of infringement....more
Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy, No. 22-1078, 601 U.S. (2024) - On May 9, 2024, the Supreme Court held that copyright owners may obtain damages beyond the three-year statute of limitations under the Copyright Act. As this...more
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on May 9th, 2024, in the case of Warner Chappell Music, Inc., et al., v. Nealy, et al., that plaintiffs in a copyright ownership dispute can recover damages beyond the three-year statute of...more
Intellectual property practitioners were anticipating the Supreme Court’s decision in Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy, which raised important questions regarding the statute of limitations and availability of damages for stale...more
The United States Supreme Court recently announced its Opinion in Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy, 144 S. Ct. 1135 (2024). At issue was whether recoverable damages under the Copyright Act were limited to the three-year...more
On May 9, 2024, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Warner Chappell Music Inc. et al. v. Nealy et al., holding that a plaintiff can seek damages for past infringement that had occurred earlier than the three-year statute...more
In a victory for copyright owners, the US Supreme Court confirmed in a recent case that copyright owners who sue for infringement may recover money damages that are not limited to the three-year period before filing suit....more
On May 9, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court held the Copyright Act entitles a copyright owner to obtain damages for a timely infringement claim, even if the infringement occurred prior to the Copyright Act's three-year statute of...more
A split Supreme Court has decided that, under a plain reading of the Copyright Act, a party alleging copyright infringement may obtain damages for the entire damages period, so long as the suit itself is timely brought....more
On May 9, 2024, in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit’s prior ruling, holding that a plaintiff with a timely infringement claim under the discovery...more
In a 6-3 majority decision in Warner Chappell Music, Inc. et al. v. Sherman Nealy et al., the Supreme Court held that the Copyright Act entitles a copyright owner to recover damages for any timely claim and that no separate...more
Under the Copyright Act, “there is no time limit on monetary recovery” for a timely claim. So held the Supreme Court last week in Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy. Section 507 of the Copyright Act imposes a...more
The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that the Copyright Act entitles a copyright owner to damages for any timely infringement claim, no matter when the infringement occurred. That means copyright infringement does not have a...more
On May 9, 2024, the United States Supreme Court clarified that the “Copyright Act entitles a copyright owner to recover damages for any timely claim.” This seemingly simple rule of law, however, rested on shaky ground as soon...more
On May 9, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Warner Chappell Music Inc. et al. v. Sherman Nealy et al. (No. 22-1078), holding that copyright owners can recover damages going back more than three years based...more
Our Intellectual Property Litigation Group breaks down the U.S. Supreme Court’s Copyright Act ruling that allows plaintiffs to recover damages for infringements that occurred far in the past....more
On May 9, 2024, in Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Copyright Act permits a copyright owner to recover damages for infringing acts that occurred more than three years before bringing...more
In a closely watched case about damages and the statute of limitations under the Copyright Act, the U.S. Supreme Court held yesterday in a 6-3 decision that, so long as claims are timely, the “Copyright Act contains no...more
The Supreme Court has now issued its awaited opinion in Warner v. Nealy, ruling that plaintiffs can recover damages for copyright infringement that is more than three years old, at least under the discovery accrual...more
By removing any limitation on the temporal scope of damages recovery, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last week in Warner Chappell Music Inc. v. Nealy opened the door to copyright infringement claims dating further back in...more