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Lucasfilm lays claim to the storm trooper legions

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • May 7 2008

Imagine the scene: You are in a distinctly non-space age courtroom in London

Qualcomm wins British wireless license

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • May 23 2008

Wireless technology pioneer Qualcomm announced last Friday that it had won license rights to a 40 MHz swath of spectrum within the United Kingdom (“UK”) that will enable the company to develop a range of third-generation wireless broadband services that could include mobile television

Styx & stones & word-of-mouth marketing under fire in the UK

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom, USA
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  • June 30 2008

As of May 26, brands that spread their positive messages in the UK without clearly identifying the origin will be subject to criminal prosecutionyes, you heard correctly

Battle of the books

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • July 3 2009

Two disputes involving high profile novels have recently brought copyright infringement to the fore in the international media

Music company goes crazy over dancing baby

  • MacRoberts LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 11 2010

US mum Stephanie Lenz filmed her toddler dancing to the Prince song "Let's Go Crazy" and posted the clip on YouTube for family and friends to see

Is the Tiger Woods UK injunction over the top?

  • Duane Morris LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 15 2009

Tiger Woods has disappeared from the golfing scene while there has been a media feeding frenzy

Stormtroopers suffer crushing defeat in the English court - Star Wars copyright decision serves as a reminder to the creative industries

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 21 2009

On 16 December 2009 the Court of Appeal of England & Wales gave its decision in the case of LucasFilm Ltd v. Ainsworth

Court of Appeal finds racist material hosted in California is subject to English law

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 24 2010

The Court of Appeal has held that English law prohibiting the publication of racially inflammatory material applies to online material hosted on a server in another country

Legislative outlook

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 3 2012

The House Communications Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled “Keeping the New Broadband Spectrum Law on Track” on December 12, 2012

Star Wars Stormtrooper helmets English floodgates open to cross-border IP litigation...?

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • October 25 2011

The UK's highest court of appeal, the Supreme Court, decided that Lucasfilm's UK copyright was not infringed by the manufacture and sale of replica Star Wars Stormtrooper helmets in the UK