By Mark Conrad User-generated websites like YouTube provided a treasure trove of content. The range has become vast – from home-grown to professionally-produced. For sports fans, highlights of professional, college, high school and other amateur sports are...
By Mark Conrad User-generated websites like YouTube provided a treasure trove of content. The range has become vast – from home-grown to professionally-produced. For sports fans, highlights of professional, college, high school and other amateur sports are...
A federal judge from the District of Minnesota has granted partial summary judgment to the National Football League and NFL Properties, LLC as to whether a trophy manufacturer infringed on their copyright when it manufactured fantasy-football-league trophies that...
Seizure warrants were recently executed against 10 websites that illegally streamed live sporting telecasts and pay-per-view events over the Internet, as part of an ongoing investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security...
Seizure warrants were recently executed against 10 websites that illegally streamed live sporting telecasts and pay-per-view events over the Internet, as part of an ongoing investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security...
A federal judge from the Middle District of Georgia has dismissed the claim of a plaintiff, who alleged that the University of Georgia and several individual defendants within the athletic department used “professional materials, music, dances, lyrics, voices, songs,...
The Ohio State University has had back-to-back victories in federal court concerning two trademark infringement disputes occurring in late 2010. The US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio affirmed on November 8 a previous ruling granting The Ohio State...
A federal judge has granted the United States Olympic Committee’s (USOC) request for a permanent injunction that will prevent a camp organizer from leveraging the name recognition of the USOC and Olympic movement in general for financial gain. The court,...
A federal judge from the Eastern District of Louisiana has denied sporting goods manufacturer L.A. Gear’s bid to dismiss the claim of another sporting goods manufacturer, which claimed that L.A. Gear had violated its trademarks. Plaintiff Athletic Training...
By Eric Macramalla It’s possible that four U.S. trademark applications have revealed the new name of the New Jersey Nets when they move to Brooklyn in 2012: The Brooklyn New Yorkers. In 2005, the Nets announced plans to locate the team in the Prospect...
By Eric Macramalla It’s possible that four U.S. trademark applications have revealed the new name of the New Jersey Nets when they move to Brooklyn in 2012: The Brooklyn New Yorkers. In 2005, the Nets announced plans to locate the team in the Prospect...
A former quarterback was granted one last play by a federal judge from the District of New Jersey in a legal dispute over whether a video game maker unjustly utilized his likeness for commercial gain. Specifically, the court gave the plaintiff Ryan Hart, a...
