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McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

What Do Changes to Palworld Mean for the PocketPair/Nintendo IP Dispute?

I have been following and writing about the ongoing legal battle between Nintendo / The Pokémon Company and PocketPair over PocketPair’s popular video game Palworld. This past week, PocketPair published a blog post addressing...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

PocketPair Provides Post on Permutations to Palworld based on Pokémon Patents

I have previously written extensively on the ongoing legal battle between Nintendo / The Pokémon Company (referred to herein collectively as simply "Nintendo") and PocketPair over PocketPair's popular video game Palworld....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

What? The Pokémon Company’s Patent Applications Are Evolving!

In September of last year, and in light of a corresponding Japanese patent infringement suit, I published an article detailing how The Pokémon Company had filed two patent applications at the United States Patent and...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

IP Protection for Featured Characters in Digital and Physical Media

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The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) recently ruled in In re Joseph A. Stallard (dba Osgoode Media) that Osgoode Media could not register the image of a character as a trademark in connection with a video game....more

Vondran Legal

Red Points sued for Defamation over DMCA takedown notice

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In an interesting case from New York Federal court, a judge denied a motion to dismiss by Defendant Red Points (an anti-piracy protection company) for submitting a take down alleging the sale of counterfeit products by the...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

League of Legends Copycat Companies Must Face IP Lawsuit in the U.S.

On January 20, 2022, Riot Games sued Suga and Imba, two video game companies based in Asia, in the Central District of California, alleging that the defendants infringed on Riot’s intellectual property by creating a knockoff...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Three Point Shot - Dec 2021

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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

Greenberg Glusker LLP

[Webinar] Entertainment & IP Cases You May Have Missed While Quarantining - May 19th, 10:00 am - 11:00 am PT

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Please join us as three of Greenberg Glusker’s entertainment and media litigators present a round-up of notable intellectual property and entertainment cases from the past few months that you may have overlooked during the...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Epic Dance Moves Win Legal Dance-Off (Mostly)

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In a recent decision, Judge John R. Padova of the federal court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dismissed seven out of eight of the claims brought by musician Leo Pellegrino alleging that Epic Games unlawfully copied...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Intellectual Property - Copyrights - The World in U.S. Courts: Summer - Fall 2018

No Copyright Infringement or Damages Where Infringing Videogame Was Uploaded to and Downloaded from Apple App Store Servers in California From Non-US Locations - Goes International, AB v. Dodur Ltd., US District Court for...more

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