Copyright Infringement - The Plaintiffs were the owner of a copyright on a church handbook of instructions ("handbook"). At the time of a hearing on a temporary restraining order the Defendants who had posted the handbook on their website agreed not to post it on that website any further. However, the Defendants still placed a notice on their website that the handbook was on-line and gave three ... More...   $0 (12-06-1999 - UT)

Lanham Act Claim - 15 U.S.C. 1125(a) - Plaintiff, The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants commenced this action against Defendant Eric Louis Associates on April 27, 1999, asserting causes of actio for (1) trademark/service mark infringement, false designation or origin, and unfair competition under section 43(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.C.C. 1125(a); (2) trademark/servicemark dil... More...   $0 (12-02-1999 - NY)

Trademark Infringement - Plaintiff is requesting a preliminary injunction enjoining Defendant from selling allegedly counterfeit accessories of Plaintiff's PlayStation video game. Plaintiff alleges Defendant has committed trademark and copyright infringement, contibutory trademark and contributory copyright infringement, and violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. ... More...   $0 (11-04-1999 - CA)

Copyright infringement, trade dress infringement under the Lanham Act, and Common Law Unfair Competition Claims - Yurman Design contended that PAJ intentionally copied certain of its copyrighted jewelry pieces, and other PAJ designs improperly infringed upon Yurman's distinctive "trade dress." ... More...   $1050000 (11-01-1999 - NY)

Copyright claim by plaintiff who claimed that Bob Dylan stolen lyrics from him.... More...   $0 (10-29-1999 - PA)

Copyright Infringement - Intellectual Property - Plaintiffs were thirteen motion picture corporations and partnerships that hold the copyrights or exclusive licenses under the copyrights to various motion pictures released for distribution on videocassette. Defendant operated a video rental business out of a store located in Trenton, Michigan. Also named as defendants were the officers of the vi... More...   $181500 (10-26-1999 - MI)

Fraudulent Procurement of Trademark Registration - Plaintiff claimed that defendant fraudulent procured trademark registrations from the United States Patent and Trademark Office which caused the United States Customs Service to issue a notice of detention of plaintiff's goods and damaged plaintiff in the amount of $82,000. Plaintiff also claimed that defendants infringed the copyright in one of ... More...   $82000 (10-20-1999 - NY)

Copyright Infringement Claim - The allegations made by the plaintiff and the defenses asserted by the defendant are not known at this time.... More...   $0 (09-28-1999 - CO)

Copyright infringement claim by Infinity Broadcasting Corporation, a large media company that owns and operates radio stations across the company and claims copyright in all of the programs broadcast on its stations. Wayne Kirkwood operated a service called Media Dial-Up to provide a means by which advertisers, people seeking to hire media talent, and other interested parties may monitor radio st... More...   $0 (09-08-1999 - NY)

Chrysler conceded that it copied La Grange, but challenged the original... More...   $0 (06-22-1999 - WA)

Copyright infringement - Columbia claimed that Feltner willfully infringed its copyright episodes of "Who's The Boss," "Hart to Hart," "T.J. Hooker" and "Silver Spoons" by broadcasting 440 of them on three television stations owned by corporations which Feltner controlled after Columbia terminated the stations' program licenses for non-payment. Columbia sought $70,000 per episode from Feltner... More...   $31600000 (04-08-1999 - CA)

Copyright infringement and unfair competition claims. Plaintiff asserted that Microsoft's license to distribute products which use Sun's copyrighted source code depends on compliance with Sun's applicable test suite for the version of the technology which Microsoft's products incorporate. Sun alleged that the subject products fail to pass the applicable compatibility test suite and that, therefor... More...   $0 (11-17-1998 - CA)

Copyright. Defendants create and publish printed compilations of federal and state judicial opinions. Plaintiff and intervenor-plaintiff manufacture and market compilations of judicial opinions stored on compact disc-read only memory discs. Plaintiffs sought a judgment declaring that star pagination will not infringe West's copyrights in its compitations of judicial opinions.... More...   $0 (11-03-1998 - NY)

Copyright. Manufacturer plaintiff sought declaratory judgment against use of its product. The court observed that neither novelty nor invention is a requisite for copyrignt protection, but minimalcreaativity is required. Annotation to reflect subsequent procedural developments such as amendments and denial of rehearing and editing of parallel and alternate citations to cases cited in the opinions ... More...   $0 (11-03-1998 - NY)

Copyright infringement claim by security guard who claimed that defendant copied three logo designs of his creation for its team logo.... More...   $0 (11-03-1998 - MD)

Copyright infringement - 28 U.S.C. 1338. Plaintiff claimed that Tony Robbins and Robbins Research International were guilty of copyright infringement by copying and using without permission portions of Cook's book "Wall Street Money Machine." After reading Cook's book, meeting with him and attending one of Cooks seminars, Robbins introduced a financial seminar manual of his own which used the ... More...   $655900 (10-02-1998 - WA)

Acuff-Rose, a music publishing company, owns the copyright to a country music song, You've Got to Stand for Something, that repeatedly features the lyrics, "You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything." Country singer Aaron Tippin recorded the song in 1990. You've Got to Stand for Something peaked in popularity in February 1991, when it was the fifth-best-selling country music so... More...   $0 (09-04-1998 - NY)

Copyright Infringement – Storm Impact sued Software of The Month Club for allegedly infringing upon copyright regarding a software "shareware" product. The plaintiff also claims that the defendant practiced unfair competition and falsely designated the origin under the Lanham Act. Plaintiff further claims deceptive trade practices were committed under Illinois law.... More...   $20000 (07-29-1998 - IL)

Copyright Act violation claim for unauthorized expolitation abroad of copyrighted videotapes of the Reginald Denny battery during the Los Angeles riots in 1992. Visnews made a copy of the videotapes when they were broadcast by NBC persuant to a license agreement with plaintiff and rebroadcast the videos in overseas. DEfendant claimed that extraterritorial infringement does not violate American c... More...   $60000 (07-13-1998 - CA)

Copyright Infringement, Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Breach of Contract and Defamation Claims by former member of Gay Male S/M Activists from 1987 to 1996 who claimed that defendants used photographs taken by plaintiff at various GMSMA events. In early 1995, defendant Kessler gave two photographs to Theodore Heaney to accompany an article Heaney was writing for Checkmate magazine. Kessler never inf... More...   $1000 (07-09-1998 - NY)

Copyright and Trademark Infringments - Plaintiff sued H.R.I. Industries for using copyrighted materials without the plaintiff's permission. H.R.I. printed a still frame copy of a motion picture and published it in their newspaper. The defendant asserts it thought the motion picture was available through public domain. H.R.I. filed a motion to dismiss and for alternate summary judgment. Feiner ... More...   $0 (06-03-1998 - NY)

Copyright infringement claims relating to Adobe's Utipia font software was copyright protected and infringed by certain font products distributed by The Learning Company's products. ... More...   $2000000 (05-22-1998 - CA)

Copyright infringement - Plaintiff accused Kenneth Manning of making "unauthorized reproductions" of "Klingon swords of honor".... More...   $0 (05-14-1998 - CO)

Declaratory judgment action brought to resolve a dispute over the use of http://www.cds.com. Plaintiff, CD Solutions registered "cds.com" with Network Solutions, Inc., as a "domain name" on the Internet. After plaintiff began using the domain dame to conduct business on the Internet, defendants advised plaintiff of their trademark and requested that plaintiff transfer the name cds.com to defenda... More...   $0 (04-22-1998 - OR)

Copyrights - Intellectual Property - Satellite Home Viewer Act - Plaintiff, ABC, filed action alleging violation of the Satellite Home Viewer Act ("SHVA"), 17 USC sec. 119, and sought declaratory judgment and injunctive relief as well as attorney's fees and costs. Plaintiffs alleged that the defendant enagaged in willful practice of transmitting ABC programming to households ineligible for such s... More...   $0 (04-19-1998 - NC)