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Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Taylor Swift
In dismissing a lawsuit brought by an unknown R&B singer named Jesse Braham against Taylor Swift claiming copyright infringement, the judge referred to Swift’s lyrics. Braham had claimed that the phrases “haters gonna hate” and “players gonna play” were plagiarized from … Continue reading
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L&G Partner Mathew Lombard’s Trade Secrets Presentation at PTMG
L&G partner, Mathew Lombard, spoke last month at the Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (“PTMG”) last month on the topic of protection of trade and business secrets. Although I was not able to attend the meeting this year, by all accounts, … Continue reading
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Faulkner Sues Hasbro
Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner has filed a lawsuit against Hasbro. Faulkner wants the company to pay her $5 million because it made an inch-tall plastic toy hamster named “Harris Faulkner”. Faulkner, a six-time Emmy winner who anchors “Fox News … Continue reading
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McCarthy Against IP Centralization
In response to calls to centralize all trademark appeals to the Federal Circuit, leading trademark expert – literally, the man who wrote the book on trademarks – J. Thomas McCarthy (and Dina Roumiantseva), think not. With some regularity over the years, … Continue reading
USPTO to Open Satellite Office in Dallas
The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office is set to open a satellite office in Dallas, Texas on 9 November 2015. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office, opening at the Terminal Annex Federal Building in Dallas on Nov. 9, is one of … Continue reading
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Court Cancels URBAN HOMESTEADING Trademark
In a longstanding dispute between advocates of urban farming and the Dervaes family of Pasadena, a federal district judge gave opponents of the Dervaes’ a partial victory when he ordered cancellation of the trademark for URBAN HOMESTEADING on the grounds … Continue reading
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AstraZeneca Asserts Its Purple Rights
**Update here** Global pharma giant AstraZeneca has asserted its rights to its purple trademark. AstraZeneca filed a complaint at the US District Court for the District of Delaware on 28 October, claiming Indian drug maker Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories’s generic version of Nexium … Continue reading
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Walmart Avoids Federal Action
Walmart has successfully avoided action by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) concerning Walmart’s mislabeling of products as “Made in the U.S.A.,” when they were, in fact, not made in the U.S.A. The retailer was forced to remove “Made in the … Continue reading
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Ninth Circuit Does About-Face
In its second appellate review of the same case, the Ninth Circuit has done an about-face. In its second review of the case the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit set aside its own ruling that found Amazon … Continue reading
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Google Books is Fair Use, According to 2nd Circuit
On October 16, 2015, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed that Google can digitally scan millions of books and make snippets of them available for searching. The Google Books service is a fair use under U.S. copyright law. “Google’s making … Continue reading
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Mathew Lombard
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