eBay headquarters on January 22, 2014 in San Jose, California. (credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) It’s game over for an Alabama man who claims his patent on “Carpenter Bee Traps” is being infringed by competing products on eBay. Robert Blazer filed his lawsuit in 2015, saying that his US Patent No. 8,375,624 was being infringed by a variety […]
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Coachella Sues Urban Outfitters for Copyright Infringement
Who owns the diaphanous dress/faded Polaroid/culturally questionable headdress brand? And who owns the name “Coachella”? Such are the questions that our courts are considering in the year of our lord, 2017. As the LA Weeklyreports, Coachella parent company Goldenvoice is suing Urban Outfitters for trademark infringement, alleging unauthorized use of the word “Coachella” to describe […]
Nintendo Is Suing Go-Karting Company Over Copyright Infringement
[Image: MariCar] Today, Nintendo announced a lawsuit against a Tokyo-based kart rental service called MariCar. Tokyo has been home to a couple different karting businesses as the vehicles are street legal. Previously, Kotaku profiled Akiba Kart, a service renting out karts to those who want to explore the city’s geek district by go-kart. The whole […]
Waymo, Google’s self-driving car division, sues Uber over patent infringement
Enlarge / The Pacificas are topped with LIDAR sensors, among other new appendages. (credit: Waymo) Waymo, the division of Alphabet previously known as Google’s self-driving car project, has sued Uber and its self-driving truck acquisition, Otto, for patent infringement. In a Medium post published Thursday afternoon, Waymo accused Anthony Levandowsk—a former Google engineer now working for […]
