The Briefing: Not Terminated - Cher Still Entitled to Her Share of Music Royalties
The Briefing: Not Terminated - Cher Still Entitled to Her Share of Music Royalties (Podcast)
SCOTUS applies the "discovery rule" in timely copyright infringement claim; Cher wins in Marital Settlement Agreement vs Copyright Grant Termination Notices; Student Athletes Win Revenue Share and NIL
Entertainment Law Update Episode 160 – August/September 2023
NFTs and Your Business – Separating Fact From Fiction
NFT Perspectives: A Discussion With Artist and Filmmaker Haik Kocharian
JONES DAY PRESENTS®: Nonfungible Tokens and the Gamification of Markets
Navigating the Once-Obscure German Nonresident Withholding Tax
Nota Bene Episode 111: Charting the New World of Music Royalty Investment with Sid Fohrman
Nonpublication Requests For Patent Applications: Disadvantages
Jones Day Talks Intellectual Property: Blurrier Lines and Narrow Grounds—Implications of the Ninth Circuit’s Blurred Lines Decision
A Focus on Energy: Royalty Trusts
Instapundit: America's IP Laws Need to be "Pruned Back"
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Rudimentary principles of contract law stipulate that words in a contract that are plain and free from ambiguity must be understood in their usual and ordinary sense. Applying such principles, the US Court of Appeals for the...more
On August 26, in MCL Intellectual Property, LLC v. Micron Technology, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed exclusion of an expert opinion regarding a reasonable royalty, holding that the district court did not abuse its...more
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Federal Circuit Summaries - Before Prost, Dyk and Chen. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Summary: A party may not seek a declaratory judgment to obtain piecemeal...more
In Feld Motor Sports, Inc. v. Traxxas , L.P., No. 16-40686 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 11705 (5th Cir. June 30, 2017), the Fifth Circuit held for the first time that an appellate court can review a trial court’s legal conclusions in...more
Cellport Systems, Inc. v. Peiker Acustic GMBH & Co. KG - In a case addressing whether royalties are due under a patent licensing agreement even if the products are not covered by the patents, the U.S. Court of Appeals...more