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Sabinsa Corp. v. Creative Compounds, LLC

Commercial Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
In plaintiff's suit for trademark infringement and unfair competition, district court's judgment in favor of the defendant, finding that there was no...

Love v. Sanctuary Records Group, Ltd.

Civil Procedure, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark, International Law, Media Law
In an action by former Beach Boys member Mike Love against former member Brian Wilson for trademark infringement based on the promotion campaign for...

Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. v. Tabari

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark, Transportation
In a trademark infringement action by Toyota involving defendants' use on their website of copyrighted photography of Lexus vehicles and the circular...

In re Giacomini

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a case involving petitioner's patent application, claiming a technique for selectively storing electronic data in a readily accessible memory...

Mindys Cosmetics, Inc. v. Dakar

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
In a trademark infringement action, a denial of defendant's California anti-SLAPP motion is affirmed where defendant made a prima facie showing that...

Telcordia Technologies, Inc. v. Cisco Sys. Inc.

Communications Law, Intellectual Property, Patent, Remedies
In plaintiff's suit for infringement of three patents related to transmission of data in telecommunications networks, the judgment of the district...

Murphy v. Eddie Murphy Prod., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Media Law
In plaintiff's suit against the famous television and a motion film entertainer, Eddie Murphy, and others, claiming that defendants used copyrighted...

Santa's Best Craft, LLC. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.

Contracts, False Advertising, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property, Trade Dress, Trademark, Remedies
In plaintiff's suit against its insurer, arising from an underlying suit against the plaintiff over its marketing of Christmas lights for copying...

Visa Int'l Serv. Ass'n v. JSL Corp.

Commercial Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
In an action by Visa Corporation claiming that a company called eVisa was likely to dilute the Visa trademark, summary judgment for plaintiff is...

Bilski v. Kappos

Patent, Commercial Law, Intellectual Property
In a patent application seeking protection for a claimed invention explaining how commodities buyers and sellers in the energy market could protect,...