Legal Research

IP Words
Google?s Ngram viewer provides endless amusement. (The project is explained here, with a bonus WKRP reference for good measure!) I searched the database for ?intellectual property,? ?copyright,? ?patent,? and ?trademark? to see what I could find about word-frequency...

Flurry Of Copyright, Interoperability Policy Activity At European Union
By Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch In a flurry of intellectual property-related activity, the European Commission this week ordered copyright collecting societies to loosen their stranglehold on cross-border music licensing, proposed extending the term of copyright protection to 95 years, and launched debate on copyright exceptions on the internet...

A Patent Lie
Paul Goldstein is a distinguished intellectual property scholar and author of both Copyright?s Highway, perhaps the best layman?s introduction to copyright law there is, and Goldstein on Copyright, one of the essential treatises for copyright experts...

Intellectual Property Lines Sometimes Blurred
Washington, DC: China has an even greater impact on North Americans than serving as a source for contaminated goods. Chinese hucksters and opportunists make off, together with their Asian counterparts, with up to $3...

European Commission Seeks Copyright Extension, New Levy Debate
By Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch In a flurry of intellectual property-related activity Thursday, the European Commission proposed extending copyright protection for performers from 50 to 95 years, resurrected debate on the contentious issue of copyright levies on blank media, and ranked member states on their innovativeness...

Historian cautions against strong-arm tactics in copyright battles
Copyright-dependent industries risk alienating the public and undermining intellectual property laws with their unregulated and aggressive tactics, according to an historian who has studied nearly 400 years of piracy and intellectual property law.

Nanotechnology Law
Intellectual property laws

Copyright Lawsuits: Critical Issues Before Filing Copyright
Federa Rule 11(b) Considerations

Compellent, Storage Engine, et. al.
$10.5 million settlement reached in intellectual property dispute.

General Electric Co. and SABIC Innovative Plastics
$3 million settlement reached in intellectual property dispute.

Great-West Lifeco Must Pay $456 Million In London Life Class Action
Great-West Lifeco Must Pay $456 Million In London Life Class Action

Rock Band Great White
Settles Over 2003 Station NightClub Fire

Great Escape Lodge and Indoor Water Park
Faces Class Action

Spike Lee and Showtime
Settlement reached in script copyright infringement lawsuit.