No Doubt Sues Activision

Copyrights, Entertainment Law

The LA Times is reporting that on November 5th NoDoubt filed suit in LA Superior Court against Activision alleging that Activision has exceeded its contractual rights by depicting the band inActivision’s Band Hero video game singing other artist’s songs. No Doubt is seeking unspecified damages as wellas a preliminary and permanent injunction. LATimes story here.

The Importance of Trademark Searching

Trademarks

We had a brief conversation with a prospective trademark client recently. This client failed to fully comprehend the importance of trademarking.  This is relatively common in our practice, but this client’s take was a bit different. His rationale for not needing to secure a trademark registration for his product name was that the product at…