Ninth Circuit Affirms Injunction Against Online Check-Issuer Qchex By Leocadie Welling – Edited by Chinh Vo Federal Trade Commission v. Neovi, Inc., No. 09-55093 (9th Cir. May 14, 2010) Slip Opinion On May 14, 2010, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a grant of summary judgment in favor of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and an injunction granted by the Southern District of California against appellant Neovi, Inc (“Neovi”). The FTC had brought claims alleging that Neovi, through its online Qchex service, ... Read More...
Archive for May, 2010
District Court Denies Preliminary Injunction Against File Sharing Service By Leocadie Welling – Edited by Ryan Ward Perfect 10, Inc. v. Rapidshare, No. 09-CV-2596 (S.D. Cal. May 18, 2010) Opinion On May 18, the District Court for the Southern District of California denied plaintiff Perfect 10’s motion for a preliminary injunction against RapidShare, a file sharing service. The court held that Perfect 10 failed to show a likelihood of success on the merits of their direct and contributory copyright infringement ... Read More...
Another Win for the Record Companies in an Inducement Claim Against Lime Wire By Sharona Hakimi – Edited By Ryan Ward Arista Records LLC v. Lime Group LLC, No. 06 CV 5936 (KMW) (S.D.N.Y. May 11, 2010) Slip Opinion On May 11, 2010, the Southern District Court of New York granted summary judgment against Lime Wire for inducing copyright infringement of Arista Records’ music, but denied summary judgment for either side on Arista’s contributory infringement claim. The court held that ... Read More...
By Emily Hoort Federal Circuit to Re-Consider TIVO Patent-Infringement Case Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will be taking a second look at a previous panel decision holding that Dish and EchoStar were violating TiVo’s digital-video recording patent. The court will consider whether it was error not to give Dish a chance to prove that changes made to Dish software remedied the prior infringement upon TiVo’s patent on “time warp” technology, which allows ... Read More...
By Andrew Segna Edited by Joey Seiler Editorial Policy In December, my JOLT Digest comment discussed the state of independent video game developers on the iPhone and the Xbox 360. This article discussed how a collective action problem plagued independent developers on these platforms. As the platform holders, Apple and Microsoft were able to foster environments that benefited their needs but often were potentially hazardous to independent developers. These hazards became realized when independent developers pursued short-term individual gains, which ... Read More...
