In September 2002, the plaintiffs received unsolicited email messages advertising software products of Redmond Venture, Inc. (Redmond). The plaintiffs brought…
Plaintiff DaimlerChrysler has been using the “DODGE” trademark in the automobile sales and service industry since 1924. In 1994 DaimlerChrysler began advertisi…
Real estate developer Donald Trump filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center against Fountainh…
The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit effort to preserve Internet sites and other digital media and make them available online. IA’s spiders regularly crawl…
The Ninth Circuit considered whether the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. Sec. 1030) requires plaintiffs to prove at least $5000 of damages or loss resul…
Following a policy similar to that employed in the U.S. by the RIAA, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) decided to sue individuals offering large number of…
Plaintiff Pure Imagination, Inc. filed suit against defendant Pure Imagination Studios, alleging trademark infringement and cyberpiracy for defendant’s use of t…
During early 2003, unknown persons leaked or intercepted an archive containing thousands of emails exchanged between employees at Diebold, a company that makes…
Plaintiff Bayer LLC is the United States distributor of the “ADVANTAGE” line of flea control preparations. Bayer LLC holds trademark protection for the term “A…
In Lexmark v. Static Control Components, Lexmark, plaintiff-appellee, sought preliminary injunction against Static Control Components (SCC) defendant-appellant,…
America Online moved to dismiss a claim against it in New York City Small Claims Court because the plaintiff had expressly agreed to exclusive jurisdiction in V…
In an order dated October 6, 2004, the D.C. Circuit refused to rule on a a writ of mandamus filed by the United States Telecom Association seeking to invalidate…