Intellectual Property
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Rap mogul Kanye West and his longtime publisher, EMI, have tentatively agreed to a deal to resolve West’s claims that EMI locked him into a “lopsided” business arrangement barred by California labor code, West told a Golden State federal court Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Federal Circuit on Monday shot down L’Oreal USA Inc.’s request to suspend more of a district court’s order that had blocked the cosmetics giant from making and selling hair color products at the center of a $50 million patent infringement case brought by Olaplex LLC… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The rights holder to the works of a renowned composer called Apple and two other companies “modern tape pirates” in a copyright suit filed Friday in California federal court, saying the iTunes store sources music from distributors and record companies that don’t own the rights… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Delaware federal judge on Thursday granted British pharma company Vectura’s request for $10.5 million in supplemental damages in a case in which a jury found GlaxoSmithKline willfully infringed a patent covering inhalers, though the judge denied Vectura’s bid for an additional $33 million in enhanced damages… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Mercedes-Benz USA LLC can seek a court ruling saying the automaker didn’t infringe the intellectual property rights of several street artists by advertising with photographs containing images of murals they painted in Detroit, a Michigan federal judge decided on Wednesday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 