Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial Dist. Ct. 141 S.Ct. 1017 (2021) For our discussion, we will analyze how the Supreme Court expanded personal jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants. The majority held that a Court’s specific jurisdiction standard includes suits that sufficiently “relate to” a defendant’s forum contacts, even in the absence of a "causal [...]
For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, April 24, 2017, we will discuss the following cases: Voltas Ltd v. Purewal, (WIPO 3/20/17) (available here). VL loses domain name dispute over possibility that disputed website had the appearance of an established engineering business. BWP Media. v. T & S Software, (5th Cir. March 27, 2017) (available here). Copyright infringement [...]
For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, April 17, 2017, we will discuss the following cases: Mavrix Photographs v. LiveJournal, (9th Cir. April 7, 2017) (available here). Plaintiff Mavrix sued LiveJournal, a social media platform, for posting its photographs protected by copyrights. The district court held that the LiveJournal was protected by the safe harbor [...]
For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, April 3, 2017, we will discuss the following cases: Thales Visionix Inc. v. United States, (Fed. Cir. March 8, 2017) (available here). Plaintiff asserted infringement of a patent that discloses an inertial tracking system for tracking the motion of an object relative to a moving reference frame against the [...]
Our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, July 7, 2014 will be a discussion of a Supreme Court case on copyright infringement and a California Appellate opinion on trade secrets. Brief synopses appear below. ABC v. Aereo (U.S. June 25, 2014) (available here). The Supreme Court held that Aereo's service, which provided subscribers the [...]
Our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, June 2, 2014 will be a discussion of a recent TTAB precedential case and state trade secret opinion. Brief synopses appear below. Chanel, Inc. v. Jerzy Makarczyk (TTAB May 27, 2014) (available here.). Here, Karczyk (“applicant"), filed an application pursuant to Section 1(a) of the Trademark Act to [...]
Our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, May 12, 2014 will be a discussion of a recent S.D. Cal preliminary injunction decision and N.D. Cal trade secret case. Brief synopses appear below. In Smith v. San Diego Americas for Safe Access (SDA), Case No. 3:130cv-01463 (S.D. Cal 4/30/14), available here: The Court granted SDA’s motion [...]
Our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, March 24, 2014 will be a discussion of a recent 9th circuit decision and a criminal trade secret jury trial. Brief synopses appear below. Garcia v. Google et. al., Case No. 12-57301 (9th Cir. Feb. 26, 2014) (available here.). Here, the panel reversed the district court’s denial of a preliminary [...]