by Tina Martin | Mar 11, 2019 | Blog
The Supreme Court recently defined “full costs” in relation to the assessment of expenses to a winning copyright infringement party. Oracle, USA, Inc. prevailed in a copyright infringement action over Rimini Street, Inc. in which a jury award $12.8 million to...
by Kaitlin Corey | Mar 11, 2019 | Blog
The United States Supreme Court held in Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp v. Wallstreet.com, LLC, that the Copyright Office must either issue a (1) copyright registration certificate or (2) refuse to register a copyright before a copyright owner can sue for copyright...
by H. Mark Stichel | Sep 20, 2018 | Blog
The procedures for adjudicating claims of sexual misconduct by college and university students have been and continue to be the subject of great controversy. The ways in which claims of sexual misconduct are addressed by colleges and universities vary greatly among...
by Kaitlin Corey | Sep 11, 2018 | Blog
Before making health and wellness claims about products, companies should make sure the claims they are asserting are accurate. Accurate does not mean that customers stand by the product and agree with the claims — the asserted claims must be backed by science....
by H. Mark Stichel | Aug 24, 2018 | Blog
Do not throw out that old dictionary. Or, if you must, make sure that you have access to a place that keeps old books. The law is written in words. Often disputes arise over the meaning of words in contracts or statutes or constitutions. Recently, the United States...
by H. Mark Stichel | Aug 17, 2018 | Blog
Statutory interpretation hardly is a sexy subject. But, competing views on how statutes should be interpreted are very much a current issue with respect to whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of sexual...
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