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After five years of litigation, the battle between Unicolors, a California-based fabric design company, and H&M is still going strong. Now the United States Supreme Court has agreed to...

United States Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether an inaccuracy in Unicolors’ copyright registration invalidates its registration and thus a jury’s $1 million damages award in Unicolors’ favor.

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The past year has brought with it many changes, and the tumultuous realm of intellectual property law is no exception. From a pair of holdings that made copyright claims more difficult when the government is involved on either side to an anticipated reexamination of an old doctrine of patent law, the pandemic has not prevented the Supreme Court from further refining the field of intellectual property law. In a holding that hits partic...

California nonprofit pushes states to make jury instructions more broadly available   Image from Shutterstock.com. Since his early days as a lawyer, Wisconsin criminal defense attorney Chad Lanning has been troubled that the state’s jury instructions were not freely available to the legal community or the general public. He has also long thought it was odd that the materials essential to the functioning of the justice system could be copyrighted by the University of Wisconsin. “It just alw...

Tuesday, February 2, 2021 Copyright jurisprudence in 2020 was, in many ways, a study in the scope of copyright protection. While certain courts brought century-year-old precedent to the forefront to interpret the scope of copyrights, other courts ruled overruled 40 years of precedent to even the playing field between popular works and works that are less known. In the wake of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s pivotal copyright decision in the Led Zeppelin “Stairway t...

They dont get credit, but a California nonprofits threat forced Wisconsin jury instructions to become public Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel © The Palm Beach Post . At court trials, judges and lawyers depend on Wisconsins standard jury instructions to help frame issues, define offenses and guide jurors understanding of the law, so they might reach just verdicts. But as crucial as the instructions are, they were — until recently — hard to obtain, almost like a...

What to Expect From the New Supreme Court Term Posted On January 12, 2021 The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to take on major cases in the copyright, patent, and employment law spaces, with questions about how the newly enlarged conservative wing will weigh in on these issues. Arguments have already been held in a case involving whether Google’s Android platform illegally infringed software c...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: 2020 was a tumultuous year. And while you were busy shifting to online meetings, implementing new measures to keep employees and customers safe, and otherwise adapting to the challenges created by the coronavirus, the U.S. Supreme Court has, for the most part, continued business as usual, issuing a number of new opinions including several addressing intellectual property rights. Here’s a look back at some of the Supreme Court opinio...