Adam Taylor

4 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Lauren Castle |Adam Taylor

Lashify Inc. told a Texas federal judge Qingdao Lashbeauty Cosmetic Co. is selling infringing DIY artificial eyelash products even after a jury found it was infringing Lasify’s patents and awarded $34 million in damages. Qingdao Lashbeauty, doing business as Worldbeauty, misrepresented it stopped selling the accused products by continuing to offer them to US customers, Lashify said in a Monday filing submitted to the US District Court for the Western District of Texas.

2 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Kyle Jahner |Adam Taylor

Equipment Brand LA Golf Partners LLC convinced a Delaware federal judge that a virtual golf league founded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy should have to fight over an “LA Golf Club” trademark in California federal court. LA Golf showed that TGL Golf Holdings LLC improperly raced to the courthouse after a final demand letter to stop using “Los Angeles Golf Club” as a team name, the US District Court for the District of Delaware said Monday.

3 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Kyle Jahner |James Arkin |Adam Taylor

A plaintiff’s claims that Walmart publicly applied to patent technology after it was accused of stealing it added an unusual twist to a trade-secrets case that’s twice resulted in nine-figure verdicts and appears far from over. Zest Labs Inc. also called two Walmart Inc. patent applications not disclosed in discovery “stealth torpedoes” that would inevitably erase its trade secrets for managing fresh-food inventory.

3 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Kyle Jahner |Adam Taylor

A Ninth Circuit panel grilled an attorney representing the heirs of a magazine writer, arguing to revive a lawsuit accusing “Top Gun: Maverick” of infringing the article that inspired the original 1986 “Top Gun” movie. Arguing for the family of author Ehud Yonay, Alex Kozinski told the panel that disputed facts about the similarity between the works should be left to a jury during oral argument Tuesday at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

3 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Michael W. Shapiro |James Arkin |Adam Taylor

Three appeals in federal patent-infringement lawsuits center on the legality of an East Texas judge’s unconventional choice to have juries answer a single yes-or-no question on whether defendants copied multiple patents rather than deciding separately whether each individual patent was infringed. In each case, District Judge Rodney Gilstrap rejected requests for separate, more specific verdict questions, and juries assessed tens or hundreds of millions in damages.