You are more than likely reading this post on the plane or in the airport on your way to Seattle. (For the International Trademark Association Annual Meeting, for our seven or so readers who don’t attend). But if you’re headed there, make sure this...
Turning Tables Is Fun, but It Doesn’t Make the Tables Go Away This is my third blog post about the most recent Federal Circuit decision in the Java-Android case, and the second about the Federal Circuit’s fair use analysis. My first post looked at the Federal...
A Riddle We Didn’t Know We’d Been Asked Is Answered. It was legitimately shocking when the Federal Circuit reversed a jury verdict that Google’s use of Java to make the Android operating system was a fair use. Not because the Federal Circuit disagreed with the trial...
Maybe We Could Do Something About It? For all of copyright law’s technicalities and niceties, it can come as a shock to learn that we lack a clear understanding of infringement. Often, this isn’t a problem. If you’re photocopying a book, putting a digital photograph...
