Archive for March, 2009

News in United States v. Arnold

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

I just found something on PACER I have not seen reported anywhere.
U.S. v. Arnold is the 9th Cir. case which relied on the border search exception and reversed the C.D.Cal’s suppression of a laptop search at LAX without reasonable suspicion.
Petition for rehearing / en banc was denied a while back and cert was recently denied [...]

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. v. iCraveTV, 53 U.S.P.Q.2d 1831 (W.D. Pa. 2000).

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

I still hate it when I cannot easily find an opinion online: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. v. iCraveTV, 53 U.S.P.Q.2d 1831 (W.D. Pa. 2000).

The end of the laches defense in trademark cases?

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

The Ninth Circuit released its opinion in Internet Specialties v. Milon-DiGiorgio on March 17, 2009.
Plaintiff ISP used the mark ISWEST and Defendant ISP used the mark ISPWEST. Plaintiff knew of Defendant’s existence since at least 1998, but did not send a cease and desist letter or bring a lawsuit until six years [...]

New whitehouse.gov video requires proprietary Adobe Flash player

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Privacy activists rightly complained about whitehouse.gov’s use of YouTube videos for President Obama’s weekly addresses, as it allowed a private third-party company to use cookies to track visitors to a government web site. The whitehouse.gov site appears to have responded to these complaints but in so doing has adopted a flash format that is [...]

Perfomance Rights Bill

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

It’s puzzling how we do something totally different in the mid-90s with respect to webcasters, satellite radio providers and cable companies and then now we need to “harmonize” and achieve “platform parity” with the broadcast radio world not by moving to the broadcast radio standard that’s been in place for 80 years but instead by [...]