After seven years of litigation, a judge was finally supposed to consider the merits of a copyright challenge to the Google Books Project at a hearing next month. That hearing has now been delayed indefinitely, however, while Google and its lawyers try to undo a big procedural win the plaintiffs scored back in May.

As it's presently interpreted, Hatch-Waxman is encouraging challenges to weak brand patents--but it's also encouraging generics to drop those challenges in favor of pay-to-delay settlements that don't have the intended effect of benefiting society. The quickest, easiest way to change the system? Grant 180-day exclusivity only to generics that succeed in invalidating brand patents.

Cyberlaw Cases is a new blog by two professors at the University of California, Berkeley, that ranks the most important pending cases in cyberlaw. Can you guess which case tops the chart?

A group of book publishers has dropped out of the long-running copyright battle over Google's plan to scan the world's books into a vast digital library.

When The Associated Press's K&E lawyers realized Fairey hadn't turned over everything he was supposed to, they pushed for answers. What they got was a bombshell that blew up the artist's fair use case.

The Second Circuit ruled Friday that a computer repair company called Rescuecom can proceed with its trademark infringement case against Google.

Former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold has maintained that he formed his company, Intellectual Ventures, to spin off other businesses. But, according to Joe Mullin, so far he's only spun off one that does more than enforce patents, despite an estimated $5 billion in outside investments.

Barring a successful appeal, a ruling Wednesday spells the end to the Authors Guild's claims related to HathiTrust--a massive digitization project involving Google Inc. and a group of university libraries. It's not quite as clear what it means for the authors' separate class action against Google, but it definitely isn't good.