The blawg site abovethelaw.com has been sued by a Florida law professor, acting pro se. Although ATL is refraining from comment out of respect for the judicial system, you can find a juicy analysis of the case and why its unlikely to survive a motion to dismiss here. Here’s a quick rundown of the background [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 26, 2009
Pennsylvania Democratic State Senator Lawrence M. Farnese Jr. has joined the Philadelphia office of Archer & Greiner as of counsel. Farnese, who won indicted former state Senator Vincent Fumo’s Senate seat in November, formerly held a similar position with Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney. Archer & Greiner said Farnese’s new position will allow him the flexibility he needs [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 8, 2009
George Borkowski, the ex-RIAA lawyer who helped torpedo the Napster and Grokster file-sharing services, is leaving a slimy trail to Venable LLP’s Los Angeles office, as co-chairman of the firm’s national intellectual property litigation group. Borkowski, founder of the IP & technology practice at LA’s Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, joins the Washington-based Venable as a partner. Borkowski [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 11, 2008
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Palo Alto, California-based social networking web site Facebook is looking for private US law firms willing to help resolve an on-going patent dispute. The popular site is facing a patent infringement dispute with patent troll Leader Technologies. Leader accuses Facebook of infringing its patented “method and system for the management and storage of electronic information.” The website [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 5, 2008
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Long live life? Bad news for Coldplay, the super successful British rock group. The band was sued on Thursday for copyright infringement by famous rock guitarist Joe Satriani. In the complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court, Satriani claims that the Coldplay song “Viva la Vida” (the title track of the band’s fourth album) [...]
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