The U.S. Federal Court of Appeals has ruled that the $ 1.1 billion compensation that the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) was awarded in January 2020 against Apple and Broadcom, which were sentenced to infringe on CalTech’s patents on Wi-Fi technology, is...
Google paid the 500 million Eur fine imposed by the French competition authority for failing to negotiate in “good faith” with media companies the use of their content under European copyright laws. Indeed, the French minister in charge of digital affairs, Cedric O,...
Tesla, the famous company founded by Elon Musk, is facing a two-billion-dollar lawsuit filed by Nikola, a hydrogen trucking startup, for infringement of design patents. The dispute was initiated in 2018, with reference to Tesla’s “Tesla Semi” product, which allegedly...
The European Court of Justice has recently established, with its own decision, the general principle according to which – under certain conditions – YouTube and other online platforms are not liable for their users’ uploading of copyright-protected content. The...
The Scottish Court of Session has ordered Lidl to temporarily stop selling its “Hampstead” gin, because it is too similar to the “Hendrick’s” gin. Lidl’s gin has been sold for about ten years, but in 2020 the well-known German discount chain decided to renew both the...
