Balough
May 14, 2018
(May 14, 2018) By continuing to provide new designs for six years after an independent contractor agreement expired, a graphic design firm granted an implied license for its work. As a result, it could not sue for copyright infringement. LimeCoral, Ltd. prepared graphic designs for postings by customers of CareerBuilder, LLC. The parties originally had […]
Balough
March 27, 2018
(March 27, 2018) Great Minds and FedEx Office and Print Services, Inc. don’t think alike, especially when it comes to copying Great Minds documents. The non-profit organization designs educational materials, releasing them to the public without charge subject to a Creative Commons license. As long as the user did not charge for the materials, Great […]
Balough
October 7, 2016
(October 7, 2016) In its report of a new study on patent assertion entities (PAEs), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) carefully avoids the term patent troll while finding that “Litigation” PAEs account for 96 percent of patent infringement lawsuits but generate only about 20 percent of patent license revenues of those PAEs studied. The report, […]
