On Monday, February 14, 2022 (Happy Valentine's Day!), SoCal IP Law Group partner Jonathan Pearce will present on several patent and trademark cases involving "exceptional case" determinations. Our firm has handled a few litigation matters involving potential or actual exceptional cases recently. As a result, we have some experience in these determinations and thought them [...]
For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, July 10, 2017, we will discuss the following cases: Adjustacam LLC v. Sakar International Inc. (Fed. Cir. July 5, 2017) (available here). AdjustaCam is the exclusive licensee to a patent claiming a camera “rotatably attached . . . about a first axis of rotation.” Newegg produced [...]
For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, July 11, 2016, we will discuss the following: Protostorm, LLC. v. Minnesota Lawyers Mutual Ins. Co. v. Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus LLP (VLW 010-3-620), No. 08-CV-931 (E.D.N.Y June 20, 2016) (Memorandum & Order available here; Damages Order Available here). In this case, a judgment of approximately [...]
For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, June 27, 2016, we will discuss the following: Cuozzo Speed Techs. v. Lee, No. 15-446 (June 20, 2016) (available here). Cuozzo sued Garmin International who, in turn, sought inter parties review of a patent owned by Cuozzo. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board concluded that the [...]
For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, June 20, 2016, we will discuss the following: Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, No. 15-375 (June 16, 2016) (available here). The Supreme Court took up a copyright damages case where the defendant in this case, Mr. Kirtsaeng, had won a copyright lawsuit brought by John [...]
For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, March 7, 2016, we will discuss the following cases: CBS Broadcasting, Inc. et al. v. FilmOn.com, Inc., Docket No. 14-3123-cv (2d. Cir. Feb. 16, 2016) (available here). FilmOn provides an online streaming service that rebroadcasts, via the internet, broadcast television. FilmOn offered content from a number [...]
Our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, July 6, 2015 will be a discussion of the following cases: Kickstarter, Inc. v. Fan Funded, 11 Civ. 6909, S.D.N.Y, Decided June 29, 2015 (available here). Kickstarter brought a declaratory relief action against Fan Funded and ArtistShare that U.S. Patent No. 7,885,887 for “Method and apparatuses for financing and marketing a creative work” is [...]
Our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, January 26, 2015 will be a discussion of: Olem Shoe Corp. v. Washington Shoe Corp, Case No. 12-11227 (11th Cir. January 12, 2015) (available here). In 2009 and 2010, Washington Shoe sent cease and desist letters to Olem Shoe Corp. alleging copyright infringement of designs of Washington Shoe's Zebra [...]
Our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, January 5, 2015 will be a discussion of one Ninth Circuit decision and a Federal Circuit decision. Synopses of the cases appear below: Pom Wonderful LLC v. Hubbard, No. 14-55253 (9th Cir. December 30, 2014 ) (available here). Plaintiff Pom Wonderful filed a preliminary injunction motion against defendant Pur Beverages seeking to enjoin [...]
Our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, January 20, 2014 will be a discussion of the following cases: In INHALE, INC. V. STARBUZZ TOBACCO, INC. (9th Cir. 2014), the 9th Circuit held that a copyright for a hookah water container could not be enforced because it was a useful article and it did not incorporate sculptural features that [...]