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US court rules non-transferable software "can be resold"

Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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United Kingdom, USA
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October 29 2009

Whether you are a computer software developer, user or are buying or selling software licences as part of a wider corporate transaction it may be worth taking note of a recent ruling by a US Court that reaches an interesting conclusion on the nature of computer software ownership

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

Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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European Union, United Kingdom, USA
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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

Shorter patent application times promised as Patent Prosecution Highway is launched

Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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United Kingdom, USA
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October 5 2007

The United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) have begun a twelve-month pilot scheme designed to expedite the processing of patent applications in the United Kingdom and the United States

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

Criminal convictions loom for price fixing oil executives

Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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United Kingdom, USA
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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

Dell and Psion in fight for the right to "Netbook"

Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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United Kingdom, USA
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March 4 2009

Psion Teklogix Inc, which describes itself as a company that "specializes in making mobile workers more productive", faces the prospect of being a victim of its own success on the one hand and its failure to take steps to protect that success on the other

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

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

Have boy band taken wrong direction?

Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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United Kingdom, USA
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April 16 2012

A lawsuit has been filed in the federal court of Los Angeles, alleging that UK boy band One Direction have infringed the trade mark rights of a US band of the same name

Games (and songs) without frontiers

Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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United Kingdom, USA
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March 16 2012

The Stop Online Piracy Act (“SOPA”) was a United States bill introduced to extend the reach of U.S. law to combat online trafficking of intellectual property and counterfeit goods outside U.S. jurisdiction

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