May 09 2012
Shoe designer Karen Kell (KK) issued a “cease and desist” letter through her lawyers today to national retailer Urban Outfitters (UO) accusing them of stealing her latest shoe design. The letter demands that UO immediately pull the shoes off the shelf or face litigation. A copy of the letter accompanies this press release. KK first …
May 06 2012
Common sense is finally coming to copyright troll lawsuits. As I have reported on before here on this site, the adult film industry has been filing lawsuits all around the country against folks whose IP address was registered to them when that IP address was used to download a pornographic movie. Where the plaintiff did …
Mar 07 2012
I’m sure that the students in the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Intellectual Property Group did not intend their upcoming Annual Symposium on Fashion Law to focus on their own poster for the event. But that will very likely be the main topic at the March 12 event, after world-renown fashion house Louis Vuitton fired …
Jan 13 2012
The record that launched 10,000 rock bands is at the heart of a new lawsuit filed Wednesday by legendary rock band the Velvet Underground.The band, which emerged from the late ’60s avant garde New York scene, released their debut album “The Velvet Underground and Nico” in 1967 (the greatest year in rock history, BTW). The …
Sep 13 2011
Ever notice those little diamond shapes on Quilted Northern toilet paper made by Georgia Pacific? No? OK, well, neither did I, but GP noticed the same design on Scott and Cottonelle products (made by Kimberly Clark, its biggest competitor), so it sued alleging that the “quilted diamond design” on Kimberly-Clark’s products violated its trademark and …