U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema is not letting a frequent filer patent company leave the courthouse quietly in its lawsuit against the national law firm Foley & Lardner. Brinkema has set a hearing for Friday, Oct. 9, for SPH America ...

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Dueling lawyer Web sites were left standing when the dust settled in Alexandria federal district court last week. Two Northern Virginia lawyers with the same surname developed the Web sites to market their separate specialties. H. Jay Spiegel, a Mt. ...

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Dueling lawyer Web sites were left standing when the dust settled in Alexandria federal district court last week. Two Northern Virginia lawyers with the same surname developed the Web sites to market their separate specialties. H. Jay Spiegel, a Mt. ...

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A Suffolk club owner’s luck ran out in Norfolk federal court last Friday.   The club owner had told music-licensing giant ASCAP that he would take his chances on operating without an ASCAP license, according to a lawsuit filed by ...

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A Suffolk club owner’s luck ran out in Norfolk federal court last Friday.   The club owner had told music-licensing giant ASCAP that he would take his chances on operating without an ASCAP license, according to a lawsuit filed by ...

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Producers of the movie Your Mommy Kills Animals, who won contract damages and copyright protection, got enough, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held March 6. The VLW Blog reported the dispute in Berman v. Johnson in October 2007, ...

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When we link to other internet sites on this blog, or on the main VLW Web site, we generally embed the address of the site into the text.  That underlines the text and makes it a “hyperlink,”  the commonly recognized ...

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The trouble is well into six figures for two Northern Virginia restaurateurs and their associates who were held liable this year for stealing the style and the recipes of a popular chain of Buffalo wing restaurants.  U.S. District Judge James ...

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West has embarked on publication of independent “white papers” on topics of legal interest, and one of the first is a piece by Virginia legal scholar Rod Smolla (W&L Law Dean, former UR Law Dean) on Viacom v. Google. The ...

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U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael F. Urbanski yesterday dismissed a $2 million lawsuit filed by a Lynchburg woman claiming that the company that makes pre-moistened Pledge and Windex wipes stole her idea. The News & Advance has the follow-up story.

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