Our latest video clips from ‘The Entrepreneurs Guide to IP’ feature USC Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship Luke Dauchot (Kirkland & Ellis) and guest lecturer Gavin Moler (Kirkland & Ellis). Their lectures cover the patentability of software and...
By David Kline Many defendants in patent infringement cases argue that case law (such as VE Holding in 1990) allowing patent lawsuits to be filed in any district in which the defendant has sales have only encouraged abusive patent litigation. They say this practice,...
By Richard Stockton, Kevin Keenan, and Brad Van Pelt In 2011, Apple sued Samsung for, among other things, infringement of three U.S. patents — two claiming designs for parts of a smartphone, and one for a graphical user interface of a smartphone display screen. A jury...
By David Kline A January 2017 release from Simon Tam’s dance rock group The Slants is called “The Band Who Must Not Be Named” — and for good reason. Despite making music for more than a decade, the world’s first all Asian-American dance rock band had...
Check out the latest video clips from ‘The Entrepreneurs Guide to IP’ featuring USC Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship Luke Dauchot (Kirkland & Ellis) and guest lecturer Marshall Phelps (IBM, Microsoft) discussing trade secrets, smartphone patents,...
Talk-show host Conan O’Brien recently came to an undisclosed settlement with a freelance comedy writer who accused Conan and his team of stealing several jokes from his social media accounts back in 2015. The litigation represents a rare copyright infringement...
