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On December 3, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit confirmed the decision of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in "Jaffe v. Samsung et al".

Despite the turmoil and gridlock in Washington, D.C., the Senate and House of Representatives appear poised to pass sweeping legislation that would overhaul the music copyright licensing infrastructure.

Managing a business is a complex task, and copyrights and trademarks are often at the bottom of a long list of concerns.

No one likes to be audited. In most cases, there is little that a business can do at the outset of an audit to avoid licensing exposure, if that business has historically inadequate software asset management processes.

As part of its annual "Special 301" identification and review of countries that deny adequate and effective protection of IP rights or deny fair and equitable market access to U.S. persons...

On December 19, BMI, one of the nation's two major performance rights organizations, won a 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding BMI's right to offer fractional licensing of music.

In the software licensing world, all audits are not created equal.

On January 15, 2014, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California decided in Powertech Tech. v. Tessera, Inc. that Powertech was not permitted to terminate a license agreement with Tessera for Tessera’s breach because Powertech itself was in breach of the agreement by its failure to pay royalties to Tessera.

The Bush Administration announced today that it would remove Libya from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and resume full diplomatic relations with Libya.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently affirmed in part, reversed in part and vacated in part a district court’s summary judgment of non-infringement in favor of third-party installers who purchase microprocessors and chipsets from Intel Corporation, which itself is authorized to sell such products under a conditional agreement with LG Electronics.

The software-audit language contained in IBM’s standard license agreements never has been anything that anyone would mistake for customer-focused or even very fair contract terms.

The Boston Cannabis Board on June 24, 2020 held a virtual public meeting addressing the current state of adult use marijuana licensing in the City of Boston.

At the beginning of January, we published "8 Technology Contacting Resolutions for 2014".

CoKinetic Systems Corporation filed suit against Panasonic Avionics Corporation, seeking damages in excess of $100 million, in part, for violation of the GPL v2 open source license

Companies with complex corporate structures sometimes encounter difficulties with properly licensing software for all of the related entities, affiliates, and subsidiaries...

It is common for software solution providers to use third-party products to support the functionalities those providers have developed for their solutions.

IBM software licensing can be a very complex knot to untie.