Grooveshark Cannot Escape Legal Woes “Without Paying a Dime”

By Sarah R. Riedl * Why does Spotify limit free music streaming to ten hours per month and limits repeat playing of single songs to only five times per month, while Grooveshark users stream to their hearts’ content?  Unfortunately for Grooveshark, the unlimited streaming may cost the company a pretty penny. On Wednesday, January 4, [...]

STLR Link Roundup – February 3, 2012

In Washington, the House and the Senate backed competing spectrum incentive auction bills, which would encourage current licensees to sell their under-utilized frequencies at auction to wireless carriers.  Lawmakers in both chambers want to package it with the payroll tax extension, which is expected to pass before the end of February.  Former FCC Chairman Reed [...]



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Academic dilemma? Antipodean and New World directions on the ownership of inventions

Dr David B Cox is a Partner with Jackson McDonald Lawyers, Perth, Australia. He previously worked in the biomedical research industry.
This article examines patent entitlement and invention assignment in light of the recent University of Western [...]



The uneasy role of trade marks in free and open source software: you can share my code, but you can’t share my brand

Pamela S. Chestek is Senior IP Attorney for Red Hat, Inc. and is trade mark counsel for the Red Hat, Fedora and JBoss brands, all open source software brands.
In broad terms, free and open source software (FOSS) is software where the copyright in the [...]

Using alternative dispute resolution mechanisms to resolve patent disputes

Russell Levine is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP with over 25 years of experience in IP litigation and licensing and in the mediation and arbitration of patent disputes. Matthew Topic is a senior IP litigation associate at Kirkland & Ellis [...]

On the road to commercialization of patents in India

Sunita K Sreedharan, Advocate and Patent Agent is the CEO of SKS Law Associates, a Delhi-based law practice that provides legal services in all areas of intellectual property law.
The Indian Patent Act 1970 has come a long way from its genesis in the [...]

Mind the gap: options to plug the gaps in hastily concluded IP licences

Ideally, IP licences would always clearly and accurately record the agreement reached between licensor and licensee.
However, in reality various factors can conspire against achievement of this aim, including commercial pressures – IP licences will [...]

Ecolabels: ownership, use, and the public interest

Dr Jeffrey Belson is regulatory Manager at Hewlett-Packard Company, Indigo Digital Press Division.
This article explores a number of legal and commercial issues relating to ecolabels, which are signs used with products to indicate their environmental [...]