JD Supra Law

MARCH 23, 2023

The copyright infringement and false association claims against a former Mary Kay, Inc. The former employee served several key roles during her over forty-year employment with the company, including as an assistant to the cosmetics giant’s founder Mary Kay Ash. By: Hodgson Russ LLP

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IP Law 360

MARCH 15, 2023

A jury should decide whether a former Mary Kay Inc. employee is unfairly profiting off the multilevel marketing beauty company's copyrights in an upcoming book, a Texas federal judge ruled, finding that neither side had sufficiently shown it should win the case just yet.

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Litigation IP Marketing Marketing 75

IP Law 360

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The former personal assistant of Mary Kay Inc.'s s founder has pushed back against the business in Texas federal court, asking a judge to toss part of the company's bid to prevent her from publishing a book about lessons she learned on the job.

Publishing 75

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Mary Kay Inc. has asked a Texas federal judge to prevent its founder's former personal assistant from advertising or selling a book about lessons she learned on the job, alleging the book steals from copyrighted material and is wrongly presented as endorsed by the company.

Advertising 73

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Patently-O

APRIL 6, 2023

by Dennis Crouch The copyright lawsuit between the data-software company SAS Institute and its scrappy copycat World Programming has been interesting to follow over the past several years, and the Federal Circuit has now issued a controversial opinion in the case. Oracle America, Inc. , Eng’g Dynamics, Inc. 4th — (Fed.

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Copyright Copying Copyright Infringement Fair Use 57