Decided: 12/13/2010 Issue: Does the “first-sale doctrine” apply to imported works manufactured abroad? Summary: The U.S. Supreme Court was asked to apply the first sale doctrine of copyright law in the context of international sales. Costco had purchased legitimate Omega watches abroad and then imported them into the U.S. The watches included a small copyrighted design [...]
The Social Network: an IP Litigator’s Review of the Movie about Facebook By David M. Lilenfeld of Lilenfeld PC “If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you’d have invented Facebook.” So says Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, in defending himself against claims that he stole the concept for Facebook from Harvard classmates.
*Originally Published in Spring/Summer 2010 IP Section Newsletter by Chad Graves “Cloud computing” is a buzz phrase that increasingly dominates the conversation in IT strategic planning. Technology evolves at a lightening pace and many business decision-makers (who may not have fully acclimated to other recent trends) are justifiably dubious about the potential benefits and pitfalls of yet another tech paradigm shift. There may be [...]
