Intellectual Property
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A Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday upended a California federal court’s dismissal of claims that Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” film franchise copied two screenwriters’ script, saying the lower court wrongly concluded the two works were not sufficiently similar for the suit to go ahead… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Exercise bike manufacturer Echelon Fitness Multimedia LLC fired back Monday in a lawsuit brought by Peloton, accusing its larger rival of seeking to monopolize the concept of internet-connected cycling while engaging in a campaign to mislead consumers about the price of its product… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Phillips 66 is facing a suit in Texas federal court that accuses the company of ripping off patent-protected technology for refining oil for marine fuel, with the patent holder alleging Phillips employs a practice of “efficient infringement” of intellectual property… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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VidAngel Inc. has asked the Ninth Circuit to upend a California federal judge’s “astoundingly vague and overbroad” order that blocked VidAngel from playing sanitized versions of movies by Walt Disney and other studios that sued the family-friendly streaming service into bankruptcy… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The popular country band that was known until recently as Lady Antebellum asked a Nashville federal court Wednesday to declare that the band’s new name, Lady A, doesn’t infringe on the rights of a Black blues singer who performs under the same moniker… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 