Bankrupt Festival Organizer Can Recover Buyout Payment It Made to Co-Founder
March 31, 2015Stan Soocher
U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler said she didn't want February's hearing in a privacy suit against Hulu LLC to feel like 'a wake.' But the Northern District of California judge put the case on life support, at the very least, indicating that she's leaning toward knocking out the remaining claims in a 2011 suit under the Video Privacy Protection Act.
March 31, 2015Ross ToddA federal judge has ordered a litigious adult website to pay $5.6 million in attorney fees and costs under the Copyright Act, saying its motives for suing Giganews Inc. and Livewire Services Inc. had more to do with creating a tax write-off for its owner than with protecting its copyrights.
March 31, 2015Vanessa BlumIf there really is a'death squad for patents, it may not be found at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. A more likely location is the Plano, TX, office of David O'Dell, chairman of Haynes and Boone's patent trials practice group.
March 31, 2015Scott GrahamThere is a new Russian data residency law that will likely impact many companies, which somehow have business connections with Russia.
March 30, 2015Ed SilversteinCA District Court Misconstrues State Franchise Relations Act in Granting Transfer Motion
Franchisee Argues For Automatic Termination Under CFRA
GA Court Sends Determination of Whether a Distributor Is a Dealer to JuryMarch 27, 2015Charles G. Miller and Darryl A. HartThe producer credited with launching Lady Gaga's career lost his bid to trim the $7.3 million he was ordered to pay a talent scout for introducing him to the singer.
February 28, 2015Charles ToutantThe latest news from the industry.
February 28, 2015ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |Federal Circuit: Application by PTAB of Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Standard in Claim Construction Upheld Under the AIA
February 28, 2015Jeffrey S. Ginsberg and Brooke HazanAs discussed in Part One of this article, a data breach can jeopardize a company's confidential information such as client records, trade secrets, privileged legal information, or employee records. Although many associate data breaches with hackers or cyberattacks, human error, such as a mistake in computer coding or losing a company laptop, also results in significant breaches.
February 28, 2015Sherilyn Pastor and Kelly Lloyd