Sometimes you wake up in the morning thinking: “I’m going to sue somebody today, I just don’t know who.”  It is for just this moment that there is a John Doe Order – an ex parte order from a Court allowing a remedy such as seizure, where a specific defendant cannot be identified, and the…

This Australian article via Dave:  The Berman bill (see prior posts) which proposes to legalize certain forms of hacking of users’ computers by a copyright owner in order to prevent unauthorized duplication of files on P2P networks, would run afoul of Australian law which states in pertinent part: “Under section 9a of…

Check out the item for Monday August 5 entitled “Oh God” here. 

In some ways, the blogosphere resembles a cocktail party, as a joke works its way around the room.  The Nigerian bit had a multiplier effect which produced ten times the normal hit rate.

Thanks to Ernie for the link to the Government’s response brief in Eldred v. Reno.

Now there is neonapster.com.  But there may no one left to defend the NAPSTER mark according to this cnn.com article.

The owners of buildings in Times Square sued the producers of the movie “Spider-Man.”  The film digitally modified the billboards on those buildings deleting the ads which appeared, replacing them with other ads.  When I first heard of the suit, my reaction was “they would have been sued if they hadn’t removed the ads.”  Spider-Man…

The Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League were found to have infringed the copyright of a logo designer named Beuchat, in coming up with a new logo (affirmed by the Fourth Circuit back in 2000).  The damages trial has now concluded and the jury came back with zero damages (decision not yet posted…

Two news items on the same day with similar fact patterns.  The NCAA sued Coors and the Redskins sued the Journal Newspapers, for giving away tickets in promotional sweepstakes, alleging trademark infringement and other causes.