by keithlim | May 2, 2014 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News
On April 30, 2014, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear opening arguments [1] for a landmark case found in patent law casebooks, Akamai Technologies, Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc., whereby the Federal Circuit, sitting en banc, held in a 6-5 ruling that...
by msharko | Dec 6, 2013 | Cases, Legal/Tech News
Recent class action lawsuits and state regulators are confronting head-on the tribal payday lending business model. [1] Tribal lenders are companies that originate small dollar (payday) loans online from servers located within Indian Country, permitting them to...
by sindhoo | Nov 24, 2013 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News
If you are anything like the average college student, you have probably scrambled for a book desperately needed for a research project in the last few days before said project is due. The most common fix to this problem is a technique perfected over the last decade –...
by pratter | Nov 24, 2013 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News
In yet another unfortunate turn of events in the Authors Guild’s fight to enforce their interpretation of copyright law, the United States District Court in Manhattan ruled in favor of Google in Authors Guild v. Google, Inc. The court held that by digitizing books and...
by rniemei | Nov 8, 2013 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology
Last week on October 31st, a nightmare scenario that Google hoped to avoid came to pass. Attorneys for Rockstar Consortium filed suit in the Eastern District of Texas against Google and seven handheld device makers that employ Google’s Android operating system...
by mirdamad | Sep 29, 2013 | Cases
Faced with the prospect of copyright infringement lawsuits from Bridgeport Music, Inc. (“Bridgeport”) and Marvin Gaye’s heirs (the “Heirs”), the composers of the multinational hit song “Blurred Lines” filed a declaratory judgment action against Bridgeport and the...
