The business of Internet, wireless, and telecom law.

Strategy for Protecting Intellectual Property in the New IMS World: Trade Secret or Patent?

Posted by Barlow Keener

For this post on IMS and FMC developers’ intellectual property, I collaborated with my friend, Michael Dowd, a partner at Foley, Hoag, LLP, in Boston.  I provide counsel on licensing patents and trademarks, and Michael’s practice involves developing patenting strategies and resolving inventorship issues, software licensing disputes and trade secret misappropriation claims.  As we explain below, these are intellectual [...]

Football and Music v Google

Posted by Barlow Keener

The  Football v YouTube action was reported immediately by Reuters on May 4, 2007.  In a new twist, the plaintiffs created a web site specifically for the lawsuit.   The plaintiffs in the case are England’s soccer club Football Association Premier League Ltd and the Bourne Company, an indie music producer.  The suit alleged that YouTube willfully and deliberately encouraged copyright violations [...]

Class Action Firm Takes on Google and YouTube

Posted by Barlow Keener

There is a now a second lawsuit against Google/YouTube for copyright infringement.  The class action complaint, Football Association Premier League Ltd and Bourne Co. v YouTube, Inc., YouTube, LLC, and Google, Inc., was filed on on Friday, May 4, 2007, in the U.S. District Court Southern Discrict New York, and is 39 pages in length.  One of [...]