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Federal Circuit Reverses In Dispute Over Online Zoom Patent
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A California federal judge erred in finding that a defendant had not infringed an asserted claim in a since-expired patent covering an online zoom feature, the Federal Circuit U.S....
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Adverse Inference Sanction For Not Producing Source Code Deemed Erroneous
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A Utah federal judge abused his discretion in granting an adverse inference sanction against ASUSTeK Computer Inc. and Asus Computer International (ASUS, collectively), based on...
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Parties Stipulate To Dismissal Of Dispute Over Anti-Piracy Patent
NEW YORK - Less than a month after a New York federal judge denied cross-motions for summary judgment in a patent dispute, a plaintiff and two of three defendants stipulated to dismissal of the action...
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Travelocity Wins Summary Judgment On Map Tab Patent Claims In Texas Case
DALLAS - A "Map View" tab on the Travelocity.com website does not infringe a graphic generating patent, a Texas federal judge concluded Feb. 22 (ICON Internet Competence Network B.V. v. Travelocity.com...
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Accused Anonymous Members' Subpoenas On EBay, PayPal In Cyberattack Case...
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Subpoenas served on PayPal Inc. and eBay Inc. by two purported members of the "hacktivist" group "Anonymous" in a criminal lawsuit over a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack...
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7th Circuit Finds No Merit To Misappropriation Claim Based On Google Search
CHICAGO - A Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on March 6 sustained dismissal of a Wisconsin woman's misappropriation and privacy complaint against Google Inc. based on the search engine...
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Juicy Couture Granted Injunction Over Domestic, Not Foreign, Cybersquatters
NEW YORK - A New York federal judge on March 12 found that Juicy Couture Inc. "demonstrated the need for a preliminary injunction" against several accused cybersquatting and trademark infringement...
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Internet DVR Firm Denied TRO To Stop Competitor From Using 'Aereo' Mark
LOS ANGELES - A California federal judge in a March 12 in chambers order denied a petition by Aereo Inc. to temporarily restrain a competitor from using the name "Aero" for its business and website...
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Accountant's Website Deemed Not Sufficiently Interactive To Confer N.J....
CAMDEN, N.J. - Although a website operated by a Pennsylvania-based certified public accountant (CPA) has "certain interactive features," a New Jersey federal judge on March 12 determined that these...
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Data Miner's Competition Law Action Against Twitter Headed Back To State Court
SAN FRANCISCO - A data-mining company's unfair-prong California unfair competition law (UCL) action seeking continued access to Twitter Inc.'s complete data set invokes no federal law and belongs in...
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Google Denied Transfer To California In Street View Patent Case
ALBANY, N.Y. - Allegations that Google Inc. infringed, directly and indirectly, eight patents relating to a popular mapping feature will proceed in a New York federal court, a federal magistrate judge...
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Blog Criticisms Are Fair Use, North Carolina Federal Judge Rules In Copyright...
RALEIGH, N.C. - The use of copyrighted images on two blogs established primarily to criticize a private psychiatric hospital is not actionable because the use is fair, a North Carolina federal judge...
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Judge Finds 'Domainer' Guilty Of Cybersquatting With 'Trump' Domains
BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A New York federal judge granted summary judgment to Donald Trump on Feb. 28 related to the real estate and reality television mogul's counterclaims against a purported cybersquatter,...
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Maryland Judge Tosses Cybersquatting Claims
BALTIMORE - Allegations of trademark infringement and violations of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) were dismissed March 11 by a Maryland federal judge (Holly and Christian...
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Judge Denies Motions In Debt Collection Lawsuit Over Consumer Loan Default
MINNEAPOLIS - Although a consumer's claims will not likely survive a motion for summary judgment, a federal judge in Minnesota on March 20 denied a debt collector's motion to dismiss and a credit...
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FDA Says It Won't Appeal Prohibition Of Warning Labels
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will revise proposed graphic cigarette warning labels rather than appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a case in which the labels were found to...
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California Appeals Panel Upholds Decision In Fatal Roofing Accident Action
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Third District California Court of Appeal on March 19 affirmed summary judgment for the defendant in a wrongful death case, concluding that a man who fell off the defendant's...
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Michigan Supreme Court Upsets Noneconomic Damages Award In Property Damage Suit
LANSING, Mich. - A unanimous Michigan Supreme Court issued an opinion March 20 overturning an appeals court opinion affirming noneconomic damages for the destruction of real property in a residential...
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Pollution Exclusion Bars Chinese Drywall Claims, Appeals Panel Concludes
RICHMOND, Va. - Noting that the Virginia Supreme Court recently ruled that sulfuric gases released by defective Chinese drywall are pollutants, the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeal on March 20...
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July 15 Trial Anticipated In WTC Disaster Litigation; Act-Of-War Defense Upheld
NEW YORK - Claims for recovery of dust removal costs filed by the owner of a property one block from the site of the World Trade Center collapse in Manhattan were dismissed March 20 in the U.S....
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