Sep
On Friday in the Western District of Texas, Cub Club Investment, LLC (CCI) filed a complaint against Apple for copyright infringement and trade dress infringement, regarding the plaintiff’s five skin tones for emojis, which Apple purportedly copied without permission or a license.
Sep
On Tuesday in the Western District of Texas, plaintiff Ikorongo Texas LLC filed a complaint for patent infringement against Uber claiming that Uber infringed its patents for location-aware devices and applications.
Sep
Chinese police recently busted a counterfeiting scheme in Shanghai, one that has ensnared at least one of luxury brand Louis Vuitton’s own employees. In August, authorities in Shanghai arrested dozens of individuals and seized an array of equipment, textiles, and fake Louis Vuitton bags in connection with a sweeping – and particularly upscale – counterfeit manufacturing operation that boasted the cooperation of a Louis Vuitton sales associate, who repeatedly sold off the newest bags to the group in order to enable it to get a head-start on making the illegal offerings.
Aug
Amazon's selection of products on the shelves is very rigorous. In recent years, it has emphasized the importance of trademarks and patents to the products. Once it encounters an infringement, Amazon will first remove the suspected infringing products.
Aug
Recently, the Beijing Internet Court made a first-instance judgment in the case of TOGO sharing cars using the image copyright of "Peppa Pig" and determined that the defendant Beijing Tuge Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Tuge Company) infringed the two plaintiffs' right of reproduction and information network transmission. The defendant should immediately stop the infringement and compensate for economic losses and reasonable expenses totaling RMB 500,000.
Aug
"In the case that the product has been ordered by the court for patent infringement, the subsequent production of air-conditioning products by the infringer still uses our patented technology, and the company can only sue again." Under the competitor’s knowing violation, Wen Kuangyu, director of the Intellectual Property Office of Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai, chose to take a tough line, but the problems of low compensation in patent litigation and difficulty in offering evidence caused him a headache.
