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A New York federal judge on Wednesday tossed copyright infringement claims by attorneys who had not registered their work and accuse LexisNexis and Westlaw in a putative class action of reposting their work without permission.

Viacom International Inc. and Time Warner Cable Inc. have settled their dispute to allow Time Warner subscribers to stream Viacom’s programming through devices such as iPads, the companies said Wednesday.

Determining that a lower court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case, the Fifth Circuit has vacated a $1.46 million tort judgment against the federal government in a suit alleging the U.S. Navy disclosed trade secrets to a pair of ship-building contractors' competitors, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.

A New York state judge has tossed a suit against Home Box Office Inc. and Time Warner Cable Inc., finding reality television star John Devenanzio was too late in claiming the HBO hit show "Entourage" had improperly used his nickname “Johnny Bananas.”

Oracle Corp. and Google Inc. agreed Wednesday to put off the issue of damages related to Google's alleged infringement of Oracle's Java software, taking it out of the hands of the jury that delivered a mixed infringement verdict last week.

A South Carolina federal judge on Friday ended a musician's copyright infringement suit against boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., saying the artist could not prove he was damaged by the unlicensed use of his song.

Activision Publishing Inc. has agreed to drop claims alleging rival Electronic Arts Inc. attempted to sabotage the video game publisher's billion-dollar "Call of Duty" franchise by enticing two producers to leave the company, attorneys said Wednesday.

A California federal judge on Wednesday refused to dismiss claims against Electronic Arts Inc. in antitrust multidistrict litigation that accuses it of conspiring to deprive former college athletes of compensation for the use of their likenesses in video games.

Allergan Inc. filed its third patent infringement suit against Hi-Tech Pharmacal Co. Inc. in North Carolina federal court on Wednesday, its latest effort to block a generic version of the eyelash growth treatment Latisse.

The debate over possible legislation to make changes to the America Invents Act got underway at a congressional hearing Wednesday, with lawmakers and business leaders sparring over how substantial such amendments should be.

Former Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP partner and software patent specialist Michael L. Kiklis has joined Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt LLP as a partner in its Alexandra, Va., office, the global intellectual property law firm announced Tuesday.

Online greeting card company JibJab Media Inc. sued White Castle Management Co. on Tuesday in California federal court, alleging the burger chain is copying its trademarks and style in its recent social media campaign.

A plan announced by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Monday that will raise fees this fall to account for inflation, on the heels of other recent increases, will be another small bite for patent applicants, but more significant hikes are yet to come, attorneys say.

Patent-licensing company Rotatable Technologies LLC on Tuesday slapped Apple Inc., Netflix Inc. and multiple other companies with a patent suit alleging infringement of its mobile device display technology.

A former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. employee asked a California federal judge on Monday to impose sanctions on the data storage company for allegedly forcing him to defend a groundless lawsuit for nearly two years.

Activision Publishing Inc. urged a California state judge on Tuesday to postpone the start of a trial over $1 billion breach-of-contract claims brought by the creators of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" who allege Activision cheated them out of royalties from the video game.

A novelty T-shirt company's application for a logo showing a polo player falling off his horse is confusingly similar to the famous logo of Ralph Lauren Corp. and does not qualify as parody, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ruled Monday.

A California federal judge on Monday trimmed claims from Apple Inc.'s patent and trade dress suit accusing Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. of copying the iPhone and iPad, as the suit continues to be pared down in advance of the planned July trial.

The Vatican has resolved its dispute with Italian fashion label Benetton Group SpA over the company's unauthorized advertising image of the pope kissing an Egyptian imam on the lips, the Vatican said Tuesday.

Halliburton Energy Services Inc. urged a Wyoming state court Monday to uphold public disclosure exemptions for the oil and gas giant's hydraulic fracturing formulas, warning a bid by local citizens' groups to uncover the information could hamstring project development efforts in the state.