(Podcast) The Briefing – Brandy Melville v Redbubble: Navigating Contributory Infringement
The Briefing – Brandy Melville v Redbubble: Navigating Contributory Infringement
Podcast: The Briefing - Shedding Light on ‘Willful Blindness’: Brandy Melville v Redbubble
The Briefing: Shedding Light on ‘Willful Blindness’: Brandy Melville v Redbubble
On June 30, 2025, the Supreme Court granted a petition for certiorari from Cox Communications Inc. and agreed to weigh in on one of the most consequential digital copyright cases in recent memory....more
The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to review whether an internet service provider (ISP) can be liable for copyright infringement for providing an internet connection that leads to piracy. Cox Communications,...more
In the case of Brandy Melville v Redbubble, a three judge appellate panel explored whether an owner of an online market place is liable for contributory trademark infringement. Scott Hervey and Jamie Lincenberg discuss this...more
On March 24, 2021, U.S. District Judge Colm F. Connolly of the District of Delaware, granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss claims for contributory and induced infringement and enhanced damages under 35 U.S.C. § 284 because...more
On July 13, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, in Mich. Motor Techs., v. Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, No. 19-10485, granted Volkswagen’s motion to dismiss Michigan Motor Technologies’...more
TriDiNetworks, an Israel based cloud management platform for M2M (machine-to-machine) and IoT networks, recently filed three lawsuits against industry leaders in IoT technology for alleged willful patent infringement. Two of...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit examined issues of vicarious and contributory infringement—along with willfulness—in connection with a copyright infringement case involving a real estate website that featured...more
Arbitration - Waymo v. Uber Technologies, 870 F.3d 1342 (Fed. Cir. 2017) - Waymo sued Uber and others for trade secret misappropriation and patent infringement. Uber contends that Waymo should be compelled to...more
This paper is based on reports on precedential patent cases decided by the Federal Circuit distributed by Peter Heuser on a weekly basis. ...more
Copyright Opinions - Unauthorized Copying Not an Element of Prima Facie Infringement Case: Ali v. Final Call, Inc., No 15-2963 (7th Cir. Aug. 10, 2016) - Wood, J. In a suit alleging copyright infringement through...more
Reviewing a spectrum of copyright-related issues following the conclusion of a jury trial, the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court, concluding that willful copyright infringement...more
The Dow Chemical Company v. Nova Chemicals Corporation (No. 2014-1431, -1462, 8/28/15) (Prost, Dyk, Wallach). Dyk, J. Reversing award of supplemental damages. "We hold that the intervening change in the law of...more
The Supreme Court recently affirmed the Federal Circuit’s decision that Pentalpha Enterprises, Ltd. (wholly owned subsidiary of Global-Tech Appliances, Inc.) induced infringement of SEB SA’s deep fryer patent. Global-Tech...more