August 05, 2024
A Washington federal judge refused Monday to grant plaintiff Enterprise Management's request for over $920,000 in fees after winning an $8,000 copyright verdict, finding that although it was the prevailing party, it "filed meritless claims, knowingly pursued baseless claims, and sought settlement amounts that exceeded the value of this case."
June 28, 2024
A Seattle-based intellectual property firm is seeking $460,000 in attorney fees for its defense of a software company client battling copyright and patent infringement allegations brought by a leadership consultant, despite the client's losing an $8,000 judgment on one claim.
June 13, 2024
A Washington federal jury on Thursday found that a software company infringed copyright registrations for a teaching chart, awarding leadership consulting company Enterprise Management Ltd. $8,000 but finding that the infringement was not willful.
February 06, 2024
A federal magistrate judge said he was not convinced that a Washington software company's managing chart was "strikingly similar" to a chart created by a management consultant who has accused the software firm of infringement, questioning Tuesday if there was enough to show that the defendants had direct access to the protected chart.
December 20, 2023
A Washington federal judge said Wednesday he's likely to briefly renew discovery in a copyright suit over a management teaching tool, agreeing that the software CEO accused of ripping off the chart deserved more information about a decades-old version the plaintiffs claim was just unearthed.
December 14, 2023
As the year winds down, a Delaware federal judge is set to oversee a trial over a major Japanese pharmaceutical company's claims that an Indian rival's efforts to market a generic version of a blockbuster kidney disease treatment infringe its patents. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
July 18, 2023
The Ninth Circuit ruled Monday that copyright registration of a derivative work covers elements shared by earlier unregistered versions, recognizing a management consultant's right to sue a software company for allegedly copying both iterations of a teaching tool she claims to have created.