Five individuals and five corporations have been charged for allegedly importing hazardous and counterfeit toys from China for sale in the United States. These charges stem from an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), …
A U.S. judge has found that two news organizations improperly used images that a photojournalist had posted to Twitter in one of the first big tests of intellectual property law involving social media. Agence France-Presse and The Washington Post infringed …
A Chinese national pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and wire fraud. The individual operated a website used to distribute more than $100 million worth of pirated software around the world, making it one of the …
A New York chain of yoga studios has agreed to stop offering hot yoga classes patterned after Bikram Yoga. Yoga to the People was accused by Bikram of copyright infringement. The chain has agreed to stop using the Bikram sequence …
Several justices on the U.S. Supreme Court voiced concern on Monday about letting U.S. copyright holders block the resale inside the country of products they make elsewhere, in one of the court’s biggest copyright cases in years. The case, likely …
Director Julie Taymor has reached a deal in New York to settle a lawsuit she brought over the Broadway production of “Spider-Man.” The settlement was disclosed in a document filed Thursday in federal court in Manhattan. Settlement terms were not …
A New York judge warned lawyers at the end of a two-hour hearing Friday that she may narrow the scope of a lawsuit stemming from the Broadway production of “Spider-Man.” U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest said she had not yet …
A U.S. judge said Gucci may recover just $4.66 million in its lawsuit accusing apparel retailer Guess Inc of copying its trademarked designs, a small fraction of the more than $120 million sought by the Italian luxury goods company. U.S. …
Two Mexican nationals were arrested on trafficking in counterfeit goods after a search warrant was executed at a rural Fresno, Calif., home, where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents seized more than 70,000 pirated copies …
A Pennsylvania man is suing the maker of the popular “Assassin’s Creed” video game series for copyright infringement and asking a federal court to stop the release of its new installment. John Beiswenger of Strasburg filed the lawsuit last week …