Google recently announced the launch of its new business venture, Google Wallet. Last week, PayPal and eBay sued Google over Google Wallet, saying that the service was developed by former PayPal and eBay employees who had illegally shared trade secrets and...
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Winklevoss twins not ready to end litigation with Facebook
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are not ready to give up their fight against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly stealing their idea to create a social networking site. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, the twins have appealed the decision of a three-judge...
Supreme Court to hear important copyright case
An interesting and important copyright case will soon come before the U.S. Supreme Court. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Esquire, the case will hold implications for artistic works created during the early to mid-1900s. The issue at hand concerns whether these...
Real-life maid files intellectual property lawsuit against author of ‘The Help’
In another case of allegedly misappropriated identity, a real-life maid has sued the author of the novel, "The Help," claiming that the author used her likeness and name for one of the two main characters in the book without her permission. Ablene Cooper works for...
Hulk Hogan about to body slam another intellectual property infringer
Last year, Hulk Hogan sued Post Foods for using his likeness to sell cereal. A commercial for the cereal featured the defeat of a character named "Hulk Boulder" by Bam-Bam, the baby from the Flintstones. Hulk Boulder resembled Hulk Hogan with his long blond hair and...
Hollywood studios sue ‘family-friendly’ company for copyright infringement, reach settlement
Several Hollywood studios banded together to successfully protect their intellectual property rights from a "family-friendly" company that was redistributing altered versions of their films. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount, Warner Bros., MGM, Disney,...
Some ‘Jersey Shore’ stars’ trademark applications more successful than others
The stars of "Jersey Shore" have been met with varying degrees of success regarding their applications to trademark their monikers. The New Jersey-based stars of the popular reality television show are all in the process of applying for or appealing for trademarks....
Possible Trademark Infringement for Toyota Franchise Owner
Two Toyota franchise owners are battling it out in court over the rights to various domain names allegedly purchased by one franchise owner to mislead internet users looking for the other franchise into landing on his own franchise's site. Bob Tyler (Bob Tyler Toyota)...
Intellectual Property Dispute Round-Up, Part 2
J.K. Rowling and her "Harry Potter" series have been on both sides of intellectual property litigation. In 2008, Rowling successfully blocked the publication of an encyclopedia of Harry Potter facts in the U.S. by convincing the court that the project fell...
Intellectual Property Dispute Round-Up, Part 1
Two recent intellectual property disputes have made the news, one involving Microsoft Corp. and the other involving the author of the Harry Potter books, J.K. Rowling. U.S. computer software company Microsoft is cracking down on the piracy of its software in China. On...
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