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Yahoo Foe Can't Avoid Counterclaims In Copyright Dispute

IP Law 360

A California federal judge says that a stock photo company that owns some 400,000 photos of cars and wants Tumblr and its parent Yahoo Inc. to pay over $300 million for them still has to face allegations the company broke the terms of an initial licensing deal with Yahoo by waiting too long to go to court.

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BREAKING: Yahoo Hit With $15M Verdict For Infringing Web Tech Patent

IP Law 360

A San Francisco federal jury found Tuesday that Yahoo Inc. infringed Droplets Inc.'s s patented technology for quickly updating web pages, saying the Silicon Valley web services giant owes $15 million to the small Texas company, which had sought $260 million in damages.

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'Bullying' Yahoo Owes $260M For IP 'Squatting', Jury Told

IP Law 360

is "free-riding" on Droplets Inc.'s s technology for quickly updating web pages, its lawyer told a California federal jury Monday at the close of a $260 million patent infringement trial, accusing Yahoo of "squatting" on Droplets' intellectual property and then "bullying" the small Texas company.

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Yahoo Fights $15M IP Loss As Droplets Seeks To Add $20.6M

IP Law 360

Yahoo has urged a California federal judge to grant it a post-trial judgment invalidating software company Droplets Inc.'s s patent following Yahoo's $15 million jury trial infringement loss, while Droplets asked the judge to tack on $17.6 million in interest to the judgment and award $3 million in fees and costs.

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Anti-Piracy Outfit Rightscorp Hit With $15m Lawsuit After Sale Went Wrong

TorrentFreak

After beginning life as DigitalRights back in 2009, anti-piracy company Rightscorp became known for its cut-price copyright-trolling operations. While some ISPs did indeed forward Rightscorp’s notices, the anti-piracy company couldn’t balance the books with its settlement model and lost millions of dollars. What Does it Do?

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Trademark Infringement in the Digital Age

IP and Legal Filings

Trademarks are becoming even more significant assets for companies trying to stand out in a competitive market due to the growth of online platforms and e-commerce. Further, when a company uses a similar or identical trademark to falsely portray its goods or services as those of another company, this is known as passing off.

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Protecting Digital Identities: Trademarks, Domain Names, and the Menace of Cyber-Squatting

IP and Legal Filings

4] The court held that though the domain names were initially used for locating computers on the Internet, but now it serves as a distinct business identifier for different companies engaged in commercial activities. 7] [Image Sources: Shutterstock] The first case pertaining to cybersquatting in India was Yahoo!