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May 06, 2002 |

Chasing Thieves

The Business Software Alliance has had success in the U.S. and Europe cracking down on piracy. Now its real work begins.
19 minute read
September 27, 2010 |

The 25 Most Influential People in IP

Who's making the greatest impact on the practice area right now? Interviews with dozens of professionals who work in the field yielded several answers upon which everyone seemed to agree, plus a few that just might surprise you.
20 minute read
May 13, 2002 |

License to Raid

Miguel Lopez Forastier, a third-year associate with Washington, D.C.'s Covington & Burling, is in Guatemala on behalf of his major client, the software industry's aggressive anti-piracy watchdog. Forastier made the 1,900-mile trip as part of the latest campaign in the Business Software Alliance's 13-year-old fight to export U.S.-style enforcement of intellectual property.
19 minute read
June 11, 2009 |

Who will be the next CEO of Wilson Sonsini?

With Wilson Sonsini's John Roos set to become ambassador to Japan, the scramble to find a new CEO at Silicon Valley's most powerful law firm has begun. The two primary candidates are corporate rainmaker Steven Bochner and litigation head Douglas Clark, say sources. And as management mulls the decision the question about who will step into Chairman Larry Sonsini's shoes must be asked. Will the person chosen for CEO -- and Sonsini is expected to have a big say -- be seen as his anointed successor?
4 minute read
May 05, 2004 |

License to Hire

In January, Hewlett-Packard Co. rolled out a new business group tasked with turning the company's 21,000-patent portfolio into a new source of income. HP assembled a special legal team from within, but also scouted outside for extra talent. After years of belt-tightening, corporate legal departments are starting to augment their ranks. Much of the new hiring involves licensing attorneys who handle IP transactions. The trend also underscores how in-house legal resources are being used to generate revenue.
5 minute read
August 28, 2013 |

Ex-White House IP Chief Named CEO of Antipiracy Group

BSA | The Software Alliance has named former U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel as the digital-sector advocacy group's new president and CEO.
2 minute read
May 08, 2006 |

Moving out of Marshall? Efforts Underway to Change Venue Rules in Patent Cases

The East Texas town of Marshall and federal courts in the Eastern District of Texas recently have developed a reputation among technology companies being sued for patent infringement. Now, technology companies are pushing Congress to limit patent owners' ability to sue from practically anywhere in the country.
6 minute read
MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
Publication Date: 2010-12-14
Practice Area: copyrights
Industry:
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: David G. Campbell, District Judge, Presiding Before: William C. Canby, Jr., Consuelo M. Callahan and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.
Attorneys:
For plaintiff: Lance C. Venable (argued) and Joseph R. Meaney of Venable, Campillo, Logan & Meaney, P.C., for plaintiff-appellant-cross-appellee MDY Industries LLC and plaintiff-appellant-third-party-defendant-appellee Michael Donnelly.
For defendant: Christian S. Genetski (argued), Shane M. McGee, and Jacob A. Sommer of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, for defendants-appellees-cross-appellants Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and Vivendi Games, Inc. George A. Riley, David R. Eberhart, and David S. Almeling of O?Melveny & Myers LLP, for amicus curiae Business Software Alliance. Scott E. Bain, Keith Kupferschmid, and Mark Bohannon, for amicus curiae Software & Information Industry Association. Brian W. Carver of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Information, and Sherwin Siy and Jef Pearlman, for amicus curiae Public Knowledge. Robert H. Rotstein, Steven J. Metalitz, and J. Matthew Williams of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, for amicus curiae Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
Case number: No. 09-15932 No. 09-16044

Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 15420MDY INDUSTRIES, LLC, Plaintiff-counter-defendant-Appellant, v. BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT,

January 11, 2010 |

Yahoo CEO expects growth in tough market

Carol Bartz gives herself a B-minus in her first year as chief executive officer of Yahoo Inc., saying she could have moved faster to reorganize the company and strike a Web-search agreement with Microsoft Corp. "It was a little tougher internally than I think I had anticipated," Bartz, 61, said in an interview at Yahoo's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif.
5 minute read

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