Archive for November 2015

By: Julia Shursky This is a District Court case from the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. Plaintiff, Slep-Tone, is the owner of trademarked karaoke accompaniment tracks and its tracks guide karaoke users to the lyrics of songs as they sang along. In this action, Slep-Tone filed suit against karaoke jockeys, claiming that they engaged…

By: Stephanie Liao In Wis. Alumni Research Found. v. Apple, Inc.[1], the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin held that the University of Wisconsin-Madison Alumni Research Foundation’s (“WARF”) patent licensing body will not be able to extract triple damages from Apple, Inc. as the jury weighs how much the iPhone maker must…

By: Tiana Cherry On October 30, 2015, three plaintiffs jointly filed an appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts after the First Circuit Court of Appeals held that Village Gun Shop, Inc. (“Gun Shop”), which collected firearms from the plaintiffs and charged the plaintiffs storage fees for holding the guns…