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In Tarpon Spring, Florida a Port Richey couple has been accused of stealing approximately 8,000 credit card numbers. Jail records show 30-year-old Angel Toland and 23-year-old Gary Blair were being detained Thursday at Pinellas County Jail on $5,000 bonds—it is not known if either will hire an attorney for their credit card trafficking ...

Justin Bieber Attempting to Shut Down Parody Website

A parody website created in opposition to the U.S. Senate’s proposed “Commercial Felony Streaming Act” is now facing legal threats from the legal team of Canadian pop star Justin Bieber. The site, FreeBieber.org, was created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and points out that the CFSA ironically should put Bieber behind bars—the ...

Oracle-Google Patent Trial Postponed to 2012

The judge presiding over the Oracle Corp’s patent lawsuit against Google said in a filing this week that the trial will not happen until next year. United States’ District Court Judge William Alsup attempted to get Google CEO Larry Page and Oracle CEO to negotiate out of court in numerous face-to-face meetings in San Jose earlier ...

Amazon in the Midst of Patent Battles

In a recent filing to American financial regulators, Amazon—the online retail force—said that it has been sued 11 times concerning over 30 alleged patent infringements since the beginning of 2011. The claims suspect Amazon’s website personalization technology, cloud computing services, web service and technologies used in the Amazon ...

Apple Patents Multi-Touch 3-D Applications

A new Apple patent reveals the company’s ambition to integrate more gesturing into the iPhone, iPad and other devices produced by the leading tech innovator. The patent covers a gesture-based editing toolbar for the iPad; it suggests a novel approach to manipulating and controlling media by using gestures in the form nearly everything—shapes ...

9/11 Memorial Sign is now Commonplace

The New York Subway stations features branded cars and advertisements—it was only a matter of time before branded signs made their way on the mapping system’s signs. Instead of abiding by the long-established Metropolitan Transportation Authority design standards, dozens of directional signs for the September 11th Memorial and Museum ...

Shaquille O’Neal Wins Federal Court Ruling in Trademark Dispute

Retired NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal scored a significant victory, this time off the court, in a federal trademark lawsuit in Las Vegas. Last year, Shaq’s licensing company sued True Fan Logo Incorporated-- an Arizona apparel company--for opening an online store called “Shaqtus Orange Clothing Company” that sold and marketed ...

Trademarking “Occupy Wall Street”

Earlier this week a story broke that a Long Island couple filed for a trademark on the slogan “Occupy Wall Street” with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.The couple’s initiative, as one might expect, is prompted by business aspirations—they were planning to sell “Occupy Wall Street” T-shirts, bumper stickers, “hobo ...

United States Government Pondering Changes to Copyright Laws

The United States Copyright Office quietly announced its priorities for 2012, which ironically—given the perfunctory reception—could bring powerful changes to the nation’s intellectual property laws. The priorities range from the way websites and blogs register perpetually-changing material for copyrights to the establishment ...

U.S. Government Attempts to Terminate ‘Rogue Websites’

A new anti-piracy legislation was placed before the United States House of Representatives this week to deploy copyright law for the removal of ‘Rogue Websites’—domains who are alleged of infringing on other site’s intellectual property rights. Submitted on Wednesday, the Stop Online Piracy Act will be officially reviewed by the ...

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