Recently, a YouTube video attacking ex-presidential contender Jon Huntsmen surfaced on the Internet.  The insulting footage refers to Huntsmen as the “Manchurian Candidate,” while playing “Chinese style” music in the background; it shows Huntsmen doing Chinese activities (speaking Chinese, interviewing with the chinese media…) and asks whether the candidate’s true country of allegiance is the [...]

1. Investors watch Pfizer and Merck as the patents for Lipitor and Singulair are set to expire this year. 2. ICANN’s sale of new TLDs may have far-reaching implications for competition on-line. 3. Yes, Motorala, Google only loves you for your assets: Google intends to buy Motorola for its patents.   Thank you to staffer [...]

A California Sikh, Dr. Randeep Dhillon, has filed a lawsuit against Jay Leno, alleging that the Sikh community was the unfair butt of The Chin’s joke on the January 19th episode of The Tonight Show.  The joke at issue portrayed Mitt Romney, the uber-wealthy Republican presidential candidate, as the summer resident of the Golden Temple [...]

IPLJ is proud to report that staffer Meredith Hatic has won second place in the New York State Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section’s 2011 Annual Law Student Writing Competition! Meredith is a 2L at Fordham and is planning on pursuing a career in entertainment law upon graduation. Meredith’s paper examines whether and to what [...]

This week, Twitter announced that it would block certain messages upon request in countries where they are deemed illegal. The new policy has sparked outrage among many users, who argue that it will cripple a vital outlet for free speech in countries with autocratic regimes. Twitter and other social media platforms played a crucial role [...]

PIPA and SOPA may be shutting down the Internet just in time– sales tax! boo! Because a web pirate is one of those dangerous criminals we don’t want out on the street before trial. . . What about a 3D Pirate? This just might mean that Google = God, for better or worse. Antivirus firm [...]

The Louboutin/YSL case has become a very hot topic for fashionistas and IP enthusiasts alike. Appealed Tuesday in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the judge seemed to show support for the Louboutin side, which would mean a possible overturning of the lower court decision to deny a preliminary injunciton.  Much of the argument is [...]

As if we haven’t had enough exposure to Kim’s ego. A court date has been set for the twenty million dollar lawsuit Kim Kardashian is filing against Old Navy (parent company The Gap) for early 2013.  She claims the company violated her intellectual property rights by hiring a model with her likeness, Melissa Molinaro.  She [...]

This week a federal appellate court will hear arguments in the Christian Louboutin/Yves Saint Laurent red shoe sole lawsuit.  A professor from Harvard Law weighs in on Louboutin’s unprecedented attempt to trademark a color.

It’s a plot straight out of a James Bond film.  There is a super villain called “Dr. Evil,” fast cars, exotic locations, beautiful women, and an international criminal enterprise.  Only 007 is missing. On Friday, January 20, police in Auckland, New Zealand, arrested Kim Dotcom (formerly Kim Schmitz), founder of the popular file-sharing website Megaupload.com, [...]