Intellectual Property
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Apple Inc. won’t have to pay up for infringing one of Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL’s wireless communications technology patents because the patent’s original owner, Nokia Corp., didn’t disclose it in a timely fashion to European telecom regulators, a California federal court has ruled… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Louis Vuitton Malletier SA on Tuesday won a bid to keep its trademark battle against a poop-shaped toy purse called Pooey Puitton solely in France, after a U.S. judge shut down a parallel case filed in California federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday highlighted an unusual split with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division in a California federal court filing that slammed the DOJ’s antitrust watchdogs for butting into the FTC’s case against Qualcomm over the chipmaker’s patent licensing practices… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Chilean singer Jaime Ciero has dropped his copyright infringement suit against The Walt Disney Co. over the song “Let It Go” from the 2013 animated film “Frozen,” according to a Wednesday filing in California federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Dutch semiconductor maker ASML will take over much of the intellectual property belonging to its bankrupt rival XTAL after a California judge on Friday issued an uncollectable $845 million judgment for XTAL’s alleged inducement of ASML employees to breach their contracts and reveal various trade secrets… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 