Fired by his employer, an executive at a high-tech marketing company sent “inflammatory text messages” threatening to “steal” its customers and “poach” its employees before he went to work for a competitor several weeks later. The executive left with a ...

Tagged with: Employment Federal Courts Intellectual Property Judge Leonie Brinkema

A patent attorney whose Washington state license to practice law was suspended after he failed to pay bar dues or complete mandatory CLE when he left law practice to become a patent agent, and whose former law firm filed a ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In plaintiff’s suit alleging infringement of plaintiff’s patented method of creating electronic maps of utility line in Virginia, a Norfolk U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge orders plaintiff to pay defendant $42,464 in attorney’s fees and costs incurred by defendant to ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Mark Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District

After dismissing plaintiff’s suit alleging defendant H&M infringed its patent for material used in H&M’s “Beauty” underwire brassieres, the Norfolk U.S. District Court denies H&M’s request for attorney’s fees; defendant has failed to show inequitable conduct by a preponderance of ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Raymond A. Jackson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A businessman loses his suit alleging defendant builder infringed his copyright for home plans drafted by an architect and copyrighted by the businessman, but the Alexandria U.S. District Court denies defendant’s request for attorney’s fees as the plaintiff had a ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A writer suing defendant “Horrorhound” magazine, marketed to fans of horror culture, may amend his complaint a second time to add three additional counts to intellectual property claims arising from his allegations of defendant’s treatment of plaintiff’s “Video Invasion” series ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge James R. Spencer U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this copyright infringement action, an Alexandria U.S. District Court denies plaintiff’s motion to strike most of defendant’s affirmative defenses, including fair use and unclean hands, based on a claim that plaintiff is responsible for initially seeding some of its ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In plaintiff Global Touch Solutions LLC’s patent infringement suits against Toshiba, Vizio, Apple, Motorola and Microsoft, a Norfolk U.S. District Court says each defendant has demonstrated that at the time each suit was filed, the U.S. District Court for the ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Mark Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Defendant has demonstrated that he, and not plaintiff, was the owner of the NIC OUT trademark for a mechanical cigarette filter designed to remove nicotine from cigarettes, at the time plaintiff applied for registration of the NIC OUT mark, and ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court agreed with defendant Native Americans that plaintiffs’ registered trademarks for the Washington Redskins professional football team “may disparage” a composite of Native American people who contend the Redskins name is a racial slur, and the ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District