On behalf of Lawrence G. Townsend, Intellectual Property Lawyer | Nov 4, 2019 | Intellectual Property Litigation
On Oct. 29, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, known as ASCAP, announced it had filed 19 lawsuits for copyright infringement lawsuits. According to its press release, the suits target bars and restaurants with music venues that allegedly failed...
On behalf of Lawrence G. Townsend, Intellectual Property Lawyer | Sep 19, 2019 | Intellectual Property Litigation
On Sept. 3, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California refused to dismiss five claims in an April trademark lawsuit brought by Patagonia, the retailer of environmental and outdoor fame, against giant brewer Anheuser-Busch over its beer...
On behalf of Lawrence G. Townsend, Intellectual Property Lawyer | Sep 10, 2019 | Intellectual Property Litigation
Pop star Ariana Grande has filed a federal lawsuit against retailer Forever 21 and an affiliate because of social media and website postings she alleges copied elements of her music videos of the chart-topping song “7 Rings” and of the song “Thank U, Next,” according...
On behalf of Lawrence G. Townsend, Intellectual Property Lawyer | Aug 16, 2019 | Intellectual Property Litigation
According to Reuters, on August 12 the band Guns N’ Roses filed notice with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California that it and Oskar Blues, a Colorado brewery, had agreed on July 31 to settle their trademark infringement dispute over the...
On behalf of Lawrence G. Townsend, Intellectual Property Lawyer | Aug 12, 2019 | Intellectual Property Litigation
On August 1, a federal jury in Los Angeles calculated that Katy Perry, her label Capitol Records and related co-defendants owe rapper Marcus Gray and his co-writer $2.78 million for copyright infringement for Perry’s 2013 megahit “Dark Horse.” Gray,...
On behalf of Lawrence G. Townsend, Intellectual Property Lawyer | Jul 30, 2019 | Intellectual Property Litigation
When we think of branding, we often think of trademarks, but when a logo is based on creative artwork, it can also involve copyright. This is so in a dispute between basketball great Kawhi Leonard and his former sponsor Nike over a logo based on a drawing by Leonard...
On behalf of Lawrence G. Townsend, Intellectual Property Lawyer | Jul 21, 2019 | Intellectual Property Litigation
You may not know the word for it, but you, like many people, probably saw the recently doctored video of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The “deepfake” made it look like she was slurring her words, perhaps implying that she was under the influence of alcohol. The...
On behalf of Lawrence G. Townsend, Intellectual Property Lawyer | Jul 12, 2019 | Intellectual Property Litigation
On June 19, songwriter Heidi Merrill and three other cowriters filed a copyright infringement suit in U.S. District Court in New York against singer Carrie Underwood, the National Football League, NBCUniversal Media, LLC, and several related defendants. The complaint...
On behalf of Lawrence G. Townsend, Intellectual Property Lawyer | Jul 9, 2019 | Intellectual Property Litigation
Kim Kardashian is in the intellectual property news again. We shared information just last week about her controversial choice of the word “kimono” for branding her new line of lingerie.On July 2, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of...
On behalf of Lawrence G. Townsend, Intellectual Property Lawyer | Jun 17, 2019 | Intellectual Property Litigation
In our last post, we talked about disputes over the right to use Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s persona, image and name in 65 years after her untimely death. We introduced the parties involved and the dispute between Kahlo’s surviving relatives and the Frida...
