Intellectual Property
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Facebook Inc. and its subsidiary Instagram LLC were hit with a patent infringement suit in Texas federal court Tuesday over accusations the Silicon Valley titans swiped the tech behind their live video streaming functions from a smaller company… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Massachusetts-based Singular Computing LLC sued Google on Friday in Boston federal court, accusing the Silicon Valley juggernaut of making unauthorized use of Singular’s patent-protected technologies to boost the power of some of Google’s most popular products… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Sony, Universal, Warner and other major music labels won a $1 billion verdict against Cox Communications on Thursday when a Virginia federal jury found that the telecom behemoth turned a blind eye to the pirating of more than 10,000 musical works… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Seventh Circuit ruled on Wednesday that an Illinois federal court was right to deny class certification to an Instagram user who claimed Groupon violated a Prairie State publicity statute when it pulled photos from her account for advertising… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Omniverse One World Television has agreed to shut down its operations and pay $50 million to Disney, Paramount and other Hollywood heavyweights to resolve a case accusing Omniverse of illegally selling copyrighted content to streaming services, according to a judgment entered Tuesday in California federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 