By Olivier A. Taillieu and Jeffrey J. Zuber of Zuber & Taillieu LLP
In a case of first impression, the 9th Circuit held that illegal use or operation of a copyrighted work by the copyright owner does not preclude an award of statutory or actual damages for infringement. In Dream Games of Arizona, Inc. v. PC Onsite, 561 F.3d 983 (9th Cir. 2009),… More...
June 26, 2009
Clarifying the application of the doctrine of foreign equivalents, the Federal Circuit held that a mark is geographically deceptively misdescriptive if a substantial portion of the relevant consumer market is… More...
June 22, 2009
The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has upheld the Philadelphia Police Department’s dress code policy that forbids police officers from wearing any religious garb. When the city prohibited a… More...
June 17, 2009
The Federal Circuit court applied the “obvious to try” test from KSR International v. Teleflex Inc. to biotechnology patent applications, and essentially eviscerated the obviousness standard once applied to biotech… More...
July 2, 2009
Weil Gotshal has announced plans to close its Austin, Texas office, which has been open since 2003. More...
June 29, 2009
The California State Board of Equalization (“BOE”) has issued a release stating that a number of voter-approved sales and use tax increases – designed to provide… More...
June 22, 2009
On May 18th, 2009, the House of Representatives passed the final Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 (S. 386) by a vote of 338-52, which… More...
June 22, 2009
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has amended its rules to delegate to the General Counsel its authority to designate officers in authorized investigations conducted by… More...
Copyright Law | Employment Law | Patent Law | Securities Law | Tax Law | Trademark Law
June 29, 2009
Hawaii is the latest state to try securing tax revenues from online sales. More...
June 29, 2009
U.S. Representative Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) has announced new legislation to strengthen protections for laid-off workers. More...
June 26, 2009
The House Committee on Education and Labor has approved by a vote of 29 to 17 the 401(k) Fair Disclosure and Pension Security Act (H.R. 2989),… More...
June 25, 2009
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fl., has filed a proposed legislation to amend Hatch-Waxman Act's definition of “first applicant” for abbreviated new drug application (“ANDA”) filers to give… More...
June 25, 2009
Rep. Bobby L. Rush, D-Il., has re-introduced on the congressional floor a bill intended to eliminate perceived anticompetitive settlements of patent infringement litigation between generic and… More...
June 24, 2009
California Assembly Bill 178 (“AB 178”) seeks to provide a level playing field to ensure that California businesses, both brick and mortar and e-commerce, do not… More...
Copyright Law | Employment Law | Patent Law | Securities Law | Tax Law | Trademark Law
A self-deprecating look at life in and after BigLaw
July 2, 2009
Dear Diary: After being laid off, I’ve been spending a lot of time doing things… More…
July 2, 2009
We couldn’t pass up reporting on a suit involving that mess of characters, so forgive… More…
