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One of the best sports photographs in recent history captured a 2016 incident where Texas Rangers' second baseman Rougned Odor hit Toronto Blue Jay José Bautista in the face

Weaving fibers to form a fabric has been a part of human existence since ancient times. Weaving is the process of interlacing longitudinally oriented warp...

Pryor Cashman successfully secured the dismissal of Chris Brown and Sony Music from a copyright suit filed by a songwriter in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

A PTAB panel has denied institution of an inter partes review proceeding because the petitioner did not establish that key references were properly qualified as printed publications under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b).

The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a jury verdict of infringement of the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act (SCPA) where the alleged infringer used the plaintiff's bitstream logic to program an application specific integrated circuit chip.

Last Friday, the Republican Standing Committee ("RSC") published a report by twenty-four year old staffer Derek Khanna, a former Mitt Romney aide and graduate of Georgetown Law School, entitled: "Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix it."

The firmament of copyright blog topics just got a little dimmer, and a lot better clothed. Last month, after eleven years, three Ninth Circuit opinions and 1,212 docket entries in the trial court, soft-porn multimedia company Perfect10, Inc. stipulated to the dismissal of its copyright infringement claims against Google (and others) in the Federal District Court for the Central District of California.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that reverse engineering copyrighted software to allow multi-user gaming on an unauthorized server using unauthorized copies of games violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

On January 11, the Velvet Underground ("VU"), a business entity formed by the rock group "The Velvet Underground," filed suit against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. (the "Warhol Foundation").

As discussed on TIPS a few months ago, a number of publishers of scientific journals have launched copyright lawsuits against a handful of law firms, alleging that the firms’ photocopying in connection with patent submissions constitutes infringement.

Morrison & Foerster offers a complimentary nine-part series for startup founders, executives, and investors on the legal side of founding a startup.

A District Court awarded an Amsterdam-based company a permanent injunction and over $86,000 in damages on its copyright infringement claim of textile designs.

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a precedential opinion in Santos v. Kimmel, No. 24-2196 (Oct. 6, 2025), affirming the Southern District of New York's Rule 12(b)(6) dismissal of former Congressman George Santos's copyright claims against Jimmy Kimmel, ABC, and Disney.

In a long-awaited decision, the Second Circuit, in a surprising twist, ordered that high-end shoe designer Christian Louboutin’s trademark registration for his signature red, lacquered outsoles be limited to designs in which such outsoles contrast in color with an adjoining upper.

On December 29, 2017, independent music publisher Wixen Music Publishing, Inc. brought an action for copyright infringement against streaming service giant, Spotify.

In late 2017, days before Spotify allegedly planned to commence its initial public offering, Wixen Music Publishing filed a $1.6 billion lawsuit for copyright infringement against the streaming service giant.

Although legislative efforts towards patent reform appear to have stalled, the Senate recently expressed its commitment to enhancing trademark and copyright enforcement by introducing the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008. Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Ranking Member Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) introduced the bill, S. 3325, on July 24, 2008. Co-sponsors of the bill include Senators Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), George Voinovich (R-Ohio), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)