Your Litigator is Failing You and You Dont Even Know It

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Chris Arledge of One LLP discusses the importance of hiring an expert trial litigator.

Winning on Appeal Period

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Peter Afrasiabi discusses why it is so critical to hire an experienced appellate lawyer.

Social Media & Copyright

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Here, John Tehranian argues a copyright and trade secret appeal involving our client’s design work that led to a video game drive; the case had been dismissed by the trial court, but John got that reversed and the case sent back to trial. The issues involved the amount of creativity required for art or utilitarian works to be deemed original under US copyright law. The Ninth Circuit agreed with our case and in a published opinion reversed the trial court, opening the way for our client to have his day in court before a jury. Mavrix v. Live Journal

Protecting Creators & Inventors

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Here, John Tehranian argues a copyright and trade secret appeal involving our client’s design work that led to a video game drive; the case had been dismissed by the trial court, but John got that reversed and the case sent back to trial. The issues involved the amount of creativity required for art or utilitarian works to be deemed original under US copyright law. The Ninth Circuit agreed with our case and in a published opinion reversed the trial court, opening the way for our client to have his day in court before a jury. Direct Tech. v. EA

DMCA in Action

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Here, John Tehranian argues a copyright and trade secret appeal involving our client’s design work that led to a video game drive; the case had been dismissed by the trial court, but John got that reversed and the case sent back to trial. The issues involved the amount of creativity required for art or utilitarian works to be deemed original under US copyright law. The Ninth Circuit agreed with our case and in a published opinion reversed the trial court, opening the way for our client to have his day in court before a jury. Ventura Content v. Motherless

Hollywood Copyright Battles

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This is the Empire litigation case where our client had sued the creators and distributors of Empire for copyright infringement relating to his years-old episodic television treatment called King Solomon over the similarities between it and the Empire series. His case was dismissed at the trial level. We argued his appeal for him to the federal appeals court, and against one of the largest law firms in the world, we won the appeal and got his case reinstated. One of the judges wrote a concurrence in our appeal addressing the intersection of race and copyright in copyright cases in Hollywood. This case is another example of our efforts to protect content creators against infringement. Jon Astor-White v. Daniel Strong

DEFENDING A PATENT JURY VERDICT

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Nate Dilger secured a plaintiff’s verdict of willful infringement against an infringer in the federal courts in California. The defendant tried to get the Federal Circuit to reverse and find the patent invalid and not infringed. But Nate Dilger successfully defended the actual damages verdict and the patent validity was affirmed. Nate Dilger secured a seen figure patent jury verdict and defends it on appeal

Takedowns Shakedowns and the DMCA Safe Harbor

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Essential IP for the Nimble GC Copyright Takedowns Shakedowns and the DMCA Safe Harbor