Supreme Court asks for Government’s view on yet another patent case In its order list released today, the Supreme Court has indicated that it may accept yet another appeal in a patent-related case, as it has invited the Office of the Solicitor General to file a brief stating the position of the United States on the case. The case is Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, […] Continue Reading →
Fourth Circuit a “maddening mixture of getting some things right and some things very very wrong” William Patry, author of a treatise on copyright law, has an interesting post on his copyright law blog about a decision yesterday in the Fourth Circuit. The facts of the case are relatively simple the plaintiff owned a copyright on some architectural plans that the defendant obtained an unauthorized copy of. The defendant used the […] Continue Reading →
Audiobooks can be rented without publisher’s consent: first sale exception does not apply Today the Sixth Circuit considered an issue that has not yet been addressed by any other United States Court of Appeal: whether the record rental exception to copyright law’s first sale doctrine codified in 17 U.S.C. § 109(b)(1)(A) applies to all sound recordings or only to recordings of musical works. A divided panel held that […] Continue Reading →