Intellectual Property
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Amazon and Italian fashion brand Valentino SpA filed suit in Washington federal court on Thursday, taking aim at a company they say is violating Amazon’s rules for sellers while infringing patents and trademarks related to Valentino’s “Rockstud” shoes… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Edible Arrangements LLC has filed a heavily redacted lawsuit in Georgia federal court accusing 1-800-Flowers Inc. of ripping off its intellectual property with a competing line of fresh fruit products, and it’s asking the court to order the rival gift company to cut it out… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Wisconsin federal judge awarded a Texas bull semen company nearly $11 million on Monday, boosting an $8.5 million verdict handed down last year after a trial in which the jury found a rival business had infringed the Texas company’s patents for breeding milk cows… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Federal Circuit on Wednesday backed a lower court’s ruling letting Tinder’s parent IAC/InterActiveCorp out of a suit claiming it had infringed a British Telecommunications patent, agreeing with the earlier decision that the technology was too abstract for patent protection… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Virginia federal judge on Tuesday largely upheld a $1 billion internet piracy verdict won by major record labels against Cox Communications, but said he would need to reassess how many songs had been involved in the lawsuit in order to recalculate the award… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 