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Cogito Ergo Teneo; an intellectual property blawg
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A blawg dedicated to reporting on recent U.S. copyright, trademark, and trade secret law, as well as any other interesting intellectual property news. News in a nutshell; decisions digested without the spin.
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112807 IP News
Oh, just had to comment on this one:• SCOTUS has passed on taking up the Perfect 10 v. CCBill case. Story on Mashable, but the deliberations and breaking of the news to the law clerks may have gone a lot like this little bit presented by MZOnline....
Copyright Law: Viewfinder 060507
Sarl Louis Fraud v. Viewfinder, 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 05-5927-cv (June 5, 2007):Issue:Viewfinder operates a site, "FirstView," that offers photographs from various national and international fashion shows. For old fashion shows, the...
Copyright Law: Loretta Lynn 060607
Loretta Lynn v. Sure-Fire Music Company, 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 06-5358 (June 6, 2007):Issue:The short of it is Loretta Lynn and Sure Fire were battling over copy rights to several songs penned by Loretta Lynn. Loretta Lynn brought s...
112807 IP News
A brief break between briefs:• Knievel and Kanye have worked out a settlement about that whole jumping the canyon misunderstanding. -- Yahoo! News• Tehranian speaks of Copyright Armageddon. The entire article takes a Flying Spaghetti Monster a...
Trademark Law: F.A.R. Food 053107
F.A.R. Food v. R. Fresh, 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 06 MA 149 (May 30, 2007):The Rulli Brothers created a grocery food store 80 years ago. The Rulli family sold the Rulli Bros. chain several decades ago. Shortly after selling the chain,...
Copyright Law: Welles 053007
Welles v. Turner Entertainment Company, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 05-55742 (May 30, 2007):Issue:When Orson Welles (OW) signed on for "Citizen Kane," (CK) he actually signed on for a threefer of movies. When the movies, including CK, flo...
