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High-profile music disputes create feedback

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 6 2009

In recent months the music industry has seen high-profile intellectual property cases gain significant media attention, with a leading rock band and a guitar manufacturer involved in separate disputes

Prisoner loses copyright infringement case against US government

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 4 2009

In a case decided on 8 January 2009, Robert James Walton, a federal prisoner serving a 17-year sentence for bank robbery, was unsuccessful in his attempt to sue the US government for copyright infringement

Woody Allen receives $5 million settlement for use of his image for one week

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 3 2009

The insurers of American Apparel have settled a dispute between the US clothing retailer and actor and director, Woody Allen, by agreeing to pay Allen $5 million for the unauthorised use of his image in an advertising campaign

MP3 victory for Microsoft

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 21 2007

Microsoft is celebrating a recent court decision to overturn a $1.52 billion award of damages in a patent infringement case brought against it by Alcatel-Lucent

Quallcom rue wilful use as damages to Broadcom are doubled

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 21 2007

In case anyone is in any doubt as to McDonald's motives and the value of obtaining patent protection they need look no further than the recent case of Broadcom against Qualcomm regarding the breach by Qualcomm of three of Broadcom's patents relating to mobile phone chips

NAPF publishes updated Corporate Governance Policy and Voting Guidelines

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 27 2009

On 6 February 2009, the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) published changes to its Corporate Governance Policy and Voting Guidelines

The patentability of stem cells: WARF's success and failure on opposite sides of the Atlantic

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • March 31 2008

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) has had three of its patents in relation to stem cells (and in particular, methods of isolation) upheld by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO

Criminal convictions loom for price fixing oil executives

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • February 6 2008

Following their US conviction, three oil executives have returned to the UK to face the first British criminal investigation into price fixing

Open source software (OSS) - the debate

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 25 2007

Open source software is gradually becoming more mainstream and widely used, in fact International Data Group analysts have predicted that the OSS marketplace will be worth $35 billion by 2008

Pfizer's distribution system called into question - interim injunction refused but market study launched

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 1 2007

In September 2006, Pfizer wrote to wholesalers to inform them that with effect from March 2007 it would not longer supply them given its planned new arrangements to use logistics service provider(s) instead

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