by Oliver Ruiz | May 18, 2023 | Blog, Copyright
The Supreme Court issued a decision today In a highly-followed case involving fair use defenses that were asserted by the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. The Foundation asserted the defenses in a case that alleged that Andy Warhol’s use of photographs of the...
by Oliver Ruiz | Aug 7, 2008 | Trademark
In a battle of Division I-A Schools, the University of Southern California prevailed over the University of South Carolina in a decision from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board concerning the use of the mark “SC” on various goods. Read the...
by Oliver Ruiz | Jul 3, 2008 | Copyright
In an en banc decision, the Eleventh Circuit issued a ruling in the case of Greenberg v. National Geographic Society, holding that National Geographic was privileged, under the Copyright Act, to reproduce its print magazine issues on a digital CD-ROM format, without...
by Oliver Ruiz | Jun 2, 2009 | Patent
The Supreme Court of the United States has decided to review the federal appellate court decision of In re Bilski, a seminal decision concerning method patents, in which the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit proposed a...
by Oliver Ruiz | Dec 17, 2008 | Trademark
The U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) prevailed in a recent decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which concluded that CBP was authorized to seize watches bearing the counterfeit trademark...
