For this post on IMS and FMC developers’ intellectual property, I collaborated with my friend, Michael Dowd, a partner at Foley, Hoag, LLP, in Boston. I provide counsel on licensing patents and trademarks, and Michael’s practice involves developing patenting strategies and resolving inventorship issues, software licensing disputes and trade secret misappropriation claims. As we explain below, these are intellectual [...]
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Strategy for Protecting Intellectual Property in the New IMS World: Trade Secret or Patent?
October 4th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Copyright · Courts · FMC · Femtocell · Intellectual Property · Patents · Telecom · Trademarks · Video On the Net
Football and Music v Google
May 8th, 2007 · No Comments
The Football v YouTube action was reported immediately by Reuters on May 4, 2007. In a new twist, the plaintiffs created a web site specifically for the lawsuit. The plaintiffs in the case are England’s soccer club Football Association Premier League Ltd and the Bourne Company, an indie music producer. The suit alleged that YouTube willfully and deliberately encouraged copyright violations [...]
Tags: Copyright · Courts · DRM · Entertainment · Intellectual Property · Internet · Uncategorized · Video On the Net
Class Action Firm Takes on Google and YouTube
May 7th, 2007 · No Comments
There is a now a second lawsuit against Google/YouTube for copyright infringement. The class action complaint, Football Association Premier League Ltd and Bourne Co. v YouTube, Inc., YouTube, LLC, and Google, Inc., was filed on on Friday, May 4, 2007, in the U.S. District Court Southern Discrict New York, and is 39 pages in length. One of [...]
Tags: Copyright · Courts · DRM · Intellectual Property · YouTube