2011 Top 5 List: Music, Ravens, Jobs, AIA, Handbags

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Brian Wm. Higgins

2011 Top 5 List          The Top 5 web page views on the Maryland IP Law Blog for 2011 are perennial favorites. The most popular web page for the second year in a row was one touting the "benefits" of downloading music on the Internet, published August 28, 2007. Bouchat's copyright lawsuit against the Baltimore Ravens and the NFL was the second most visited web page. The new IP JOBS Board came in third, followed by a post discussing the new America Invents Act.  Rounding out the top 5 was a Fourth Circuit opinion regarding Louis Vuitton's trademark infringement case against Haute Diggity Dog:

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What I'm Watching...and Who's Watching Me

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Brian Wm. Higgins
  • I'm tracking IP-related lawsuits filed in the Maryland Federal District Court using Justia.com and other sources.  21 lawsuits were filed in the first quarter of 2011 (9 copyright, 8 trademark, and 4 patent).
  • Recent visitors to this website are frequently looking at my 2007 discussion on illegal music downloading, entitled "Downloading Music Benefits Both Consumers and Artists, Study Finds."  One of the most visited pages on this website is the Maryland IP Jobs list. 

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Maryland Intellectual Property Law Jobs and Events

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Brian Wm. Higgins

          Please visit the updated IP JOBS and EVENTS portions of this website for the most recent IP-related job and events announcements.  If your organization has a current vacancy in Maryland (or DC or Virginia) and would like to announce it for FREE on this website, please send me the information by email or call me.  The EVENTS page includes links to calendars for some local organizations and universities.  Feel free to send me your IP-related speaking engagement information and I will post it on the EVENTS page.

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Maryland IP Jobs, Seminar Announcement, Kanye West Lawsuit

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Brian Wm. Higgins
  • Please visit the Maryland IP Jobs page for a list of Intellectual Property jobs in Maryland (if you would like to have an IP-related job in Maryland listed on this website--for free--please send me the information)
     
  • Invotex Group's Michele Riley will be co-presenting a WEBINAR to the MD Bar Association - IP Section titled "Removing the Mystery: Damages in Intellectual Property Disputes" on Thursday, September 10, 2009 from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.  For more information, click here. 
     
  • A reader pointed out that in the case of Dayna Staggs v. Kanye West, No. 8:2008cv00728 (filed March 20, 2008), the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland granted in part and denied without prejudice in part Defendant The Island Def Jam Music Group, a division of Universal Music Group's motion to dismiss (memorandum opinion; entered August 17, 2009).  In doing so, the Court, reviewing Plaintiff's copyright infringement claim, found "it it is by no means clear that Staggs would be able to establish that the Universal Defendants had access to his Song ["Volume of the Good Life"], [but] for purposes of the Motion to Dismiss, since Staggs has alleged that [Kanye] West had access to it through his MySpace page, and since the Universal Defendants could conceivably have had access through West, the Court finds that this element is satisfied." Notwithstanding, the Court also found that, "as a matter of law, there is no substantial similarity between the songs ["Volume of the Good Life" and West's "Good Life"]."

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