[Post by Venkat Balasubramani] Pinkard v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 12-cv-02902 (N.D. Ala. Nov. 9, 2012) Text messaging lawsuits are out of control.* That said, a district judge granted a motion to dismiss brought by Wal-Mart in a text spam case…
By Jake McGowan Schkeiban v. Cameron, No. 2:12-cv-00636 (C.D. Cal. 2012) As of this post, James Cameron’s movie Avatar has grossed roughly $2.78 billion. And as the old saying goes, “where there’s a hit, there’s a writ.” Given the film’s…
By Eric Goldman I’m generally a skeptic of “frictionless sharing,” such as automatically publishing to my friends a list of the articles I’ve read. Frictionless sharing takes a good idea–sharing with my friends the best things I’ve seen in the day–and…
By Eric Goldman On Friday, we’re having our big academic conference of the semester, “Solutions to the Software Patent Problem.” At the conference, experts will propose their ideas of how to fix software patents. Ultimately, we hope there will be…
By Eric Goldman CollegeSource, Inc. v. AcademyOne, Inc., 2012 WL 5269213 (E.D. Pa. October 25, 2012) Over the last dozen years, there have been countless trademark lawsuits over competitive keyword advertising (i.e., when a company buys its competitor’s trademark to display…
By Eric Goldman Ajuluchuku v. Google, 2012 WL 5464358 (E.D. Cal. November 7, 2012). Her initial complaint. The third amended complaint. It doesn’t bring me joy to blog “in forma pauperis” pro se lawsuits against Internet companies. Sometimes they are…
by Guest Blogger Pablo García Mexía, J.D., Ph.D [Visiting Professor of Internet Law, The College of William & Mary. English translation by Morgan G. Fletcher, B.A. Cornell, William & Mary Law School, Class of 2014. The original Spanish version of…
[Post by Venkat Balasubramani] North American Recycling, LLC, et al. v. Texamet Recycling, LLC, et al., 08-cv-579 (S.D. Ohio) (Order; Aug. 10, 2012) (Report and Recommendation; Nov. 17, 2010) North American Recycling sued Texamet and its principals for defamation. The…
[Post by Venkat Balasubramani] MVP Entertainment, Inc. v. Frost, B235100 (Ca. Ct. App. Nov. 7, 2012) [pdf] We enjoy cases where people negotiate or modify contracts via email or other modern methods of communication. The underlying rules haven’t changed, and…
[Post by Venkat Balasubramani] Ardis Health v. Nankivell, 11 Civ. 5013 (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 23, 2012) One of the many social media ownership disputes we blogged about was Ardis Health v. Nankivell, where a company sought, among other things, social media…