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What CLS Bank Taketh, Copyright May Giveth Back
CLS Bank and Its Impact on Software Patents Courts, commentators and clients will be struggling for some time to assess the impact on software patents of Thursday’s Supreme Court decision…
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What CLS Bank Taketh, Copyright May Giveth Back
CLS Bank and Its Impact on Software Patents Courts, commentators and clients will be struggling for some time to assess the impact on software patents of Thursday’s Supreme Court decision…
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Lanham Act Claims for Misleading Product Description Can Coexist with FDCA Labeling Regulations, Court Finds
A unanimous Supreme Court (8-0, Justice Breyer recusing) ruled on June 12, 2014 in POM Wonderful v. Coca-Cola that one competitor may sue another for unfair competition under the Lanham…
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Second Circuit Finds That, Once Again, Book Scanning Is Fair Use
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has delivered a resounding reaffirmation of fair use principles in the latest decision to go against the Authors Guild in its longstanding battle against…
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Second Circuit Finds That, Once Again, Book Scanning Is Fair Use
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has delivered a resounding reaffirmation of fair use principles in the latest decision to go against the Authors Guild in its longstanding battle against…
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Rising up from the Trenches: Ninth Circuit Broadly Interprets Breach of Contract Exclusion in Trademark Infringement Case
By Judy Selby, C. Zachary Rosenberg
On May 23, 2014, the Ninth Circuit upheld a California district court decision that broadly interpreted the breach of contract exclusion in a commercial general liability policy to preclude coverage for…
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Native Advertising, the First Amendment and the FTC
Editor’s Note: This blog post is a joint submission with BakerHostetler’s Data Privacy Monitor blog. New York Partner Fernando A. Bohorquez, Jr. and Associate Alan Pate today published “All Native…
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Native Advertising, the First Amendment and the FTC
Editor’s Note: This blog post is a joint submission with BakerHostetler’s Data Privacy Monitor blog. New York Partner Fernando A. Bohorquez, Jr. and Associate Alan Pate today published “All Native…
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FTC Says That Sponsors of Pinterest Contests Should Require Users to Post Pins with Hashtags Warning When Pins are Posted for a Prize
Editor's Note: This blog post is a joint submission with BakerHostetler's Data Privacy Monitor blog. Authored by: Gerald Ferguson and Alan Pate In a March 20, 2014 closing letter sent…
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Yelp Denied Attempt to Keep Its Online Reviewers’ Identities Anonymous
In 2012, a local rug cleaning company in Virginia, Hadeed Oriental Rug Cleaning (“Hadeed”), filed a defamation action against the authors of seven critical reviews it received on Yelp, indicating…