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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has decided that a denial of a motion to dismiss compulsory counterclaims based on sovereign immunity is not a collateral order that is appealable where the district court has yet to determine the legal sufficiency of the counterclaims.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a district court’s grant of summary judgment in a shrink-wrap license case, finding the plaintiff had not produced sufficient evidence to raise a triable issue of fact.

Audits initiated by the BSA or the SIIA are based on an underlying allegation that the targeted business has used software without a license.

A federal court recently held that a company was bound by unfavorable terms in a click-wrap license agreement, even though an employee of the software vendor installed the software and click-accepted the license agreement.

Companies licensing Microsoft software under Enterprise Agreements (EAs) likely have familiarity with the default requirement to true up EA Enterprise Products.

Copyright infringement relating to software licensing is a complex issue.

As the anticipation for the Olympics grows, companies big and small look to grab the attention of these fans by associating themselves with the games.

Over the last several months, patent holder Melvino Technologies Limited, and its Luxembourg-based licensee, ArrivalStar S.A., (together "ArrivalStar") have filed scores of patent infringement lawsuits targeting a variety of software, retail and transportation companies.

HPO is the world leader in intellectual properties and technology development space for HEVL filtering for over the last 15 years.

In Backertop Licensing LLC v. Canary Connect, Inc., the Federal Circuit found Rule 45 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure does not limit a district court's authority to sua sponte issue an order to appear.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s summary judgment decision that a settlement agreement between the patent owner Jacobs and a supplier permitted the supplier to sell infringing devices for use by its manufacturing customers, including the defendant Nintendo.

Adobe license terms often change as each new product is released, which means that the way a customer may have previously been licensing software is no longer valid.

Software publishers utilize myriad different license metrics to determine what kind and quantity of particular licenses their customers are required to purchase.

Addressing an anti-suit injunction in the context of patent licensing, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a preliminary injunction issued by a district court temporarily enjoining the enforcement of a German patent injunction.

The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice this month announced that it has opened a review of the 73-year-old ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees.

Much has happened since our last post on the Nexium "pay for delay" class action lawsuit. Jury selection began in the District of Massachusetts on Monday, October 20, 2014.

As most readers know, the Supreme Court held in the 2006 eBay decision that injunctions were no longer to be the norm in patent cases, and irreparable harm was not to be presumed.