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- Protecting Taxpayers, Promoting Innovation, Preseving Justice: An Agenda for the Senate Judiciary Committee (with responsibility for legislation on intellectual property) for in the 112th Congress, By Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.).
- Microsoft opposes Apple trademark for ‘App Store’ by Steven Musil at CNet News.
- Kwan v. Schlein, 2d Cir., 09-5202-cv, Jan. 25, 2011: Copyright infringement claims are time-barred as a matter of law where theunderlying ownership claim is time-barred.
- Adobe Systems Inc. v. Kornrumpf, N.D. Cal., No. 10-cv-02769-CW, Jan. 19, 2011: To avail itself of the first sale doctrine, the Defendant must demonstrate that he owned the copies of the software it resold; it is irrelevant whether the Defendant owned the discs on which the copies were sold. “A copyright attaches to an original work of authorship, not the particular medium in which it was initially fixed.”
- Carolina RailHawks Trademark and Domain Name sold on eBay by NBC17.
- Zynga Threatens Blingville For Using ‘ville’ by TechDirt.
- 1st Circuit Asked To Nix Lower Copyright Damages In File-Sharing Suit by Law360.
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