A Virginia-based company that developed software for video transmission over the Internet, and had a contract with defendant Internet Technology Broadcasting Corporation, a Delaware company with its principal place of business in Florida, to develop software for the Department of ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In the wake of a jury award of $19.3 million to the manufacturer of a computer keyboard support system in this suit for patent infringement, a Richmond U.S. District Court denies the counterclaim plaintiff’s motion for injunctive relief. The verdict ...

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

In the University of Virginia Patent Foundation’s suit against GE Healthcare alleging infringement of UVa’s patent on a technique for three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging of the human body, a Charlottesville U.S. District Court issues an order explaining its construction of ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

The foreign owner of patents in suit at issue here – which prevent children from oversteering ride-on vehicles – may maintain standing to sue after transferring ownership of the patents to its affiliated distributor; an Alexandria U.S. District Court says ...

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

A company that developed software for video transmission over the Internet, and had a contract with defendant Internet Technology Broadcasting Corporation to develop software for the Department of Veterans Affairs, can sue for copyright infringement on a theory of vicarious ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although plaintiff contends defendant Black Entertainment Television infringed his 1992 copyrighted screenplay “Poison Passion” with their 2006 film “Dreamgirls,” a Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses the suit because plaintiff has not rebutted defendants’ assertion that the characters and storyline of ...

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

In these consolidated international business tort cases involving tire manufacturers’ trade secrets, an Alexandria U.S. District Court denies defendants’ Rule 59 motion for a new trial following a $26 million jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs on claims of copyright ...

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

Cvent, an event planning website, can sue competitor Eventbrite for allegedly using a computer engineer to “scrape” data from Cvent’s website and repackage it for its own use; an Alexandria U.S. District Court says Cvent has stated a Lanham Act ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Leonie Brinkema U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Norfolk U.S. District Court that dismissed plaintiff producer’s suit alleging copyright violation of the producer’s video series on caring for aging parents, gives the winning defendant NBC $56.10 in costs, but refuses to award attorney’s fees, as plaintiff’s suit ...

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

A Danville writer researching the famous wreck of the “Old 97” struck gold when he found a 400-page transcript from a trial involving the engineer’s family and the Southern Railway. As the Danville Register & Bee reports, author Larry Aaron ...

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