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NPE Showcase – Sockeye Licensing

LexBlog IP

This installment will focus on a company named Sockeye Licensing TX, LLC. Sockeye has sued approximately 80 defendants since it began its patent infringement campaigns in 2015. For example, Sockeye sued a group of electronics companies in 2015 and sued the same defendants again in 2022 with at least some of the same patents.

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DDE Excludes Damages Testimony Based on “Built-In Apportionment,” Prior Jury Verdicts, and Settlement Agreements

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

Stec, from testifying as to reasonable royalty damages, where Dr. Stec had relied on a license agreement between third parties, jury verdicts, and settlement agreements. Rather, IOENGINE contended that “built-in apportionment” attributable to the licenses which Dr. Stec relied on satisfied the apportionment requirement.

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3 Count: Finally Settled

Plagiarism Today

BMG won a $25 million jury verdict in 2015 over its claims, but that was vacated by the Appeals Court over issues with jury instructions. That is what has been resolved with this settlement that sees Rightscorp revising the way it files notices with Cox and withdrawn the notices at issue.

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3 Count: Lit Appeal

Plagiarism Today

According to Campbell, Everyday We Lit is an infringement of his 2015 song Everything Be Lit. Two of the defendants, Bennett and the label, reached a settlement with Campbell. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Two DJ Music Piracy Cases Five Years Apart, Two Very Different Outcomes

TorrentFreak

In the last year alone, BREIN conducted 479 investigations which resulted in the shutdown of 466 illegal sites and services, including torrent and streaming sites, IPTV providers, and platforms that distribute music without an appropriate license. Operation Shut Down, Settlement Reached. The service was fairly comprehensive.

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3 Count: Shape of Legal Costs

Plagiarism Today

The latter had claimed that Shape of You as an infringement of a 2015 song they wrote, but the court ruled, after an 11-day trial, that no infringement took place and that Sheeran “neither deliberately nor subconsciously” copied anything from the song. 3: Bungie & Destiny 2 Cheat Creator Agree $13.5m

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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

Plagiarism Today

In 2015, FDN filed a DMCA takedown notice, but Amazon did not take down the work in question. FDN filed for that registration in September 2015 under the title “Automated Database of Furniture Catalogs and Collections (Photographs and Text)”. However, in spite of this, Amazon scraped those descriptions and used them in Amazon listings.