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BTLJ Blog
December 30th, 2014
Earlier this week, we wrote about how the government can lawfully compel a person to unlock their smart phone with the Touch ID feature (if the feature is enabled). Recently, Fitbit has been in the news because the popular fitness tracker device is being used as evidence in a Canadian ...
BTLJ Blog
December 26th, 2014
On the heels of a business-crushing Supreme Court decision, television-streaming giant Aereo announced in November that it would be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Founded in 2012 with nearly $100 million in venture funding, the company allowed users to live-stream 30 different television channels for a low monthly subscription fee. ...
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December 26th, 2014
What do actress Lindsay Lohan, former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, and U.S. World War II General George S. Patton have in common? Each is involved in a right of publicity lawsuit brought against video game companies earlier this year. Lohan, Noriega, and Patton’s estate have each filed lawsuits alleging that ...
BTLJ Blog
December 23rd, 2014
You rush into work one morning, coffee and briefcase in hand, barely making it into the cramped elevator as the doors close. You overhear someone in the back whisper “That’s her, she’s the one in the tank top in her profile pic.” You wonder who they’re gossiping about but are ...
BTLJ Blog
December 21st, 2014
For many smartphone users, passwords and passcodes have become a thing of the past. Since late 2013, Apple iPhone users have been able to access their phones by simply applying their stored fingerprint to the Home Button. Many Android devices offer the same feature. And now, Touch ID does more ...
BTLJ Blog
November 16th, 2014
As websites today develop increasingly complex relationships with visitors, the contracts that define those relationships have become more difficult for companies to impose as binding. Recent litigation surrounding “Terms of Service” (ToS) agreements has put pressure on companies to draft agreements that courts will actually enforce. Today’s ToS contracts generally ...
BTLJ Blog
November 13th, 2014
“A celebrity might fall in love with your math teacher,” but, in Nintendo’s new Sims-like game, your characters cannot be gay. In June 2014, Nintendo released Tomodachi Life, a 3DS social simulation game through which players import their avatars, or “Miis,” into what one game critic called a “digital dollhouse.” ...
BTLJ Blog
November 10th, 2014
On October 24, 2014, Amgen filed a complaint against Sandoz, the generic arm of Novartis Group, asserting three causes of action: 1) unfair competition under Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17299 et seq.; 2) conversion; and 3) patent infringement. Amgen filed the complaint in response to Sandoz’s July 2014 ...
BTLJ Blog
November 8th, 2014
The character of Sherlock Holmes seems to remain popular more than a 120 years after its initial publication. Over the last few years we have witnessed a modern day Sherlock Holmes in the critically acclaimed BBC series Sherlock and a new take on the old Holmes in two Sherlock Holmes ...
BTLJ Blog
November 7th, 2014
In 2010, three subsidiaries of US-based Altria Group (formerly named Philip Morris Companies Inc.), Switzerland based FTR Holding S.A., Switzerland based Philip Morris Products S.A. and Uruguay based Abal Hermanos S.A., (hereinafter collectively referred to as “PMI”) started international arbitration proceedings against Uruguay. PMI claimed that Uruguay violated several provisions ...