District Court Halts Sales of Keylogger Software By Jim Milkey – Edited by Nicola Carah FTC v. CyberSpy Software, LLC, November 6, 2008, 6:08-cv-1872 Court Documents [Correction: Originally, this post erroneously indicated Judge Presnell upheld the TRO described below in a November 17th hearing. In actuality, the TRO was granted on November 6th, and a hearing on the matter occurred on November 24th. The preliminary injunction order resulting from the Nov. 24th hearing is detailed in our case update.] On November 6th, Judge Gregory ... Read More...
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District Court Judge Rules Evidence of Suicide Admissible in Lori Drew MySpace Case By Leocadie Welling – Edited by Nicola Carah United States v. Drew, 08-CR-582 On November 14, 2008, Judge George Wu of the District Court for the Central District of California indicated at hearing that he would admit evidence of 13-year-old Megan Meier’s suicide at the upcoming trial of Lori Drew. Judge Wu further indicated that although he was admitting the evidence, he would issue a jury ... Read More...
Court Declares “Grand Theft” Crime Free By Briahna Gray – Edited by Miriam Weiler E.S.S. Entertainment 2000, Inc., v. Rock Star Videos, Inc., November 5 2008, No. 06-56237 Slip Opinion On November 5, 2008 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Central California District Court summary judgment ruling to dismiss the case brought by the operators of a Los Angeles strip club (“E.S.S.”) against Rock Star Videos (“Rockstar”), the manufacturer of the Grand Theft Auto video games, for trademark ... Read More...
An End to Business Methods Patents? By Anthony Kammer – Edited by Anna Lamut In re Bilski CAFC, October 30, 2008, No. 08/833,892 En Banc In re Bilski opinion Amicus Brief, En Banc Order, BPAI opinion (hosted by Electronic Frontier Foundation) On October 30, 2008, an en banc panel of the Federal Circuit upheld a ruling by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences that a business method developed by Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw for hedging risks in commodities trading ... Read More...
Appeals Court Rules Against Import Ban on Patent-Infringing Chips Slip Opinion This Tuesday the Federal Circuit ruled against an International Trade Commission (“ITC”) ban on imports of cell phone chips that allegedly infringed on a rival’s patent. The chips, made by Qualcomm Inc., contained technology that the ITC had previously held infringed on a patent owned by Broadcom Corp. In its ruling the court stated that the ITC lacked authority to ban such imports. Report by the Associated Press available ... Read More...
