There’s been a nagging – and potentially serious – discrepancy in copyright case law that the U.S. Supreme Court finally resolved. It involves when the owner of a copyright can sue for infringement. Some federal circuits held that a lawsuit can be filed by a copyright owner as soon as a copyright application has been…
Implications for ERP Users of Teradata Accusing SAP of Stealing IP SAP, one of the world’s largest developers and vendors of ERP software systems, is accused in a lawsuit of stealing trade secrets and intellectual property for 10 years from Teradata to build its flagship HANA platform. While a trial is likely years in the…
Yesterday, I blogged about my speech to the IP Summit in Chicago on June 5, 2018 that showed vendors ways of Avoiding an ERP Implementation Train Wreck, I began by explaining the three key reasons why a disturbing number of ERP software implementations end up in disputes and litigation. Today, I will review four lessons…
I addressed the 4thannual IP Summit on June 5, 2018, in Chicago on Avoiding an ERP Implementation Train Wreck. This is a subject that is all too familiar to me as an ERP software litigation attorney having represented a significant number of clients over the years in disputes and lawsuits with ERP software vendors and…
Counterfeit products flooding the U.S. and world markets is a huge problem, and historically China has accounted for 86-percent of the illicit and illegal goods in circulation. But as the country struggles to gain legitimacy with trading partners and foreign investors, it has conducted a major crackdown on the manufacture and sale of everything from…
As we wrote on April 18, 2018, protecting American intellectual property in China is a far bigger issue than the reasons Pres. Trump listed as to why he was imposing steep tariffs on a wide range of products produced in China. This point was reinforced a few days later when the American Chamber of Commerce…
When President Trump announced a series of steep, punitive tariffs against China, much of the media’s attention was on how they will hurt American businesses and consumers the most. But alleged intellectual property theft by both private and state-owned enterprises in the P.R.C. has raised the ire of Washington for a long time. Chinese businesses…
1. Development: NDAs and Employment Agreements; 2. Pre-release: Identify Your Intellectual Property; 3. Pre-Release: Register Your Intellectual Property; 4. Release – Define The Permissible Use(s) Of Your Game; 5. Release – Define What People Can’t Do With Your Game; 6. Post Release – Enforce Your Intellectual Property Rights.
An earlier post detailed foam footwear manufacturer Crocs Inc.’s subsidiary’s legal defense of its intellectual property. This time, the parent company is alleging illicit mimicry of its designs and logo by Skechers USA, Inc. in its new Nano Lite foam shoes. In a complaint filed July 10 in U.S. District Court in Denver, Crocs alleges…
Thursday, June 27, Canadian software-holding company Pan-Afric Holdings Ltd. sued Ernst & Young LLP in U.S. District Court in Maryland for over $10 million in damages, claiming the accounting giant made mathematical errors in preparing a software valuation report on which Pan-Afric detrimentally relied. In 1993, for $5 million, Pan-Afric purchased an interest (including all…