Tag: lawsuit
North Face v. South Butt
Jimmy Winkelmann, a freshman biomedical engineering student at the University of Missouri, decided to create his very own line of sportswear and called his company The South Butt (motto: Never Stop Relaxing). The North Face, a San Leandro, California-based outdoor products company, was not amused.
Posted By: Bob Zeidman in General on May 2nd, 2010.
Tags: infringement, intellectual property, lawsuit, litigation, trademark
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Who really invented the computer?
The digital computer is usually credited as the invention of two professors at the University of Pennsylvania, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. Funded by the United States Army, the ENIAC computer was designed to calculate tables for launching artillery shells accurately in World War II, but was not completed until after the war in 1946. Unlike earlier computers that had a fixed purpose, ENIAC (meaning “Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer”) could be reprogrammed to handle many different purposes. But were Eckert and Mauchly really the pioneers of today’s modern digital age?
Posted By: Bob Zeidman in General on February 2nd, 2010.
Tags: expert witness, intellectual property, lawsuit, litigation, patent, patent infringement
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Interesting software IP cases of 2009
There were a number of large lawsuits involving software IP in 2009. We know that CodeSuite was used in many of them (because of protective orders, we don’t know all the cases where CodeSuite was used).
Posted By: Bob Zeidman in General on January 1st, 2010.
Tags: copyright, copyright infringement, forensic engineering, intellectual property, lawsuit, litigation, object code, patent, patent infringement, reverse engineering, software, software analysis, software plagiarism, source code, trade secret, trade secret theft
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What to look for in an expert?
When a legal case is argued in front of a jury, both sides’ experts present their facts and the truth becomes apparent, right? Of course not–if it were that simple, experts and lawyers would not have much to do.
Posted By: Bob Zeidman in General on January 1st, 2010.
Tags: copyright infringement, expert witness, intellectual property, lawsuit, litigation, patent infringement, software plagiarism, trade secret theft
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