IP Roundup: Legal News From Around the Web

Posted in Copyright, Trademarks, Unfair Competition on December 20, 2012

The latest IP news installment deals with knives, books, shoes, and tattoos. Because really, what more does anyone need? A federal court of appeal recently upheld a $480,000.00 award in a copyright infringement case involving two tattoo art companies.  TAT International had licensed designs for stencils for temporary tattoos and continued using the designs after [...]

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IP Roundup: Legal News From Around the Web

Posted in Copyright, Entertainment, Trademarks on November 26, 2012

This week’s blog is mostly about trademarks, but not entirely.  The law refuses to be packaged into a neat little box sometimes, try as we might. Speaking of surprises, Gap got a nasty surprise recently when it was hit with a lawsuit from shoe designer Charles Philip.  The complaint alleges that the Gap is copying [...]

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