Monkey Loses Court Fight Over Selfie Copyright to Human April 25, 2018 By Sudhin Thanawala A U.S. appeals court this week favored humans over animals in a novel copyright lawsuit filed over a series of...
China to Raise Foreign Ownership Limit in Financial Services by Year-End April 11, 2018 By Kevin Yao China laid out a clearer timetable on Wednesday for opening its financial sector to more foreign investment by the end...
China’s Xi Maintains Commitment to Open Economy, Insurance Industry April 10, 2018 By Kevin Yao and Elias Glenn Chinese President Xi Jinping promised on Tuesday to open the country’s economy further and lower import tariffs on products including...
Oracle’s Java Copyright Violation Claim Against Google Not Dead After All March 29, 2018 By Jan Wolfe A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday resurrected a multi-billion dollar copyright case brought by Oracle Corp. against Alphabet Inc.’s Google....
Miley Cyrus Faces $300M Copyright Infringement Claim for ‘We Can’t Stop’ Song March 13, 2018 By Jonathan Stempel Miley Cyrus was sued for $300 million on Tuesday by a Jamaican songwriter who said the pop singer’s 2013 smash...
Uber Agrees to Give Stock to Waymo to Settle Trade Secret Theft Dispute February 9, 2018 By Joel Rosenblat Uber Technologies Inc. agreed to give about $245 million in stock to settle the high-stakes trade-secret theft lawsuit brought by...
Trial Over Waymo Claim of Uber Trade Secrets Theft Gets Underway February 6, 2018 By Alexandria Sage Uber was either a cheating competitor willing to break the law to win the race to develop self-driving cars, or...
Music Streaming Firm Spotify Faces $1.6 Billion Copyright Infringement Lawsuit January 3, 2018 Music streaming company Spotify was sued by Wixen Music Publishing Inc last week for allegedly using thousands of songs, including...
Why Patent ‘Shenanigans’ Share Blame for High Cost of Drugs December 29, 2017 By Robert Langreth and Cynthia Koons Bob Kelsey can’t afford a cancer drug that could save his life. The retired firefighter, 53, needs Revlimid to stay...
Rubik’s Cube Maker Puzzled by Toys ‘R’ Us Knockoff August 30, 2017 By Jonathan Stempel The Rubik’s Cube has delighted and confounded millions of players since Hungarian architecture professor Erno Rubik created it in 1974....