Patents, Trademarks & Copyright

JUDGE, JURY & EVALUATOR!

QUEEN V VANILLA ICEEvidence for the case

• Queen - Under Pressure 1982 – YouTube

• Vanilla Ice Ice Ice Baby

• Vanilla Ice denies Queen rip off

• What happened in the end (scroll down)

QUEEN V VANILLA ICE

Reasons For Reasons Against

Overall decision (included damages and/or percentage or revenue)

should Queen sue Vanilla Ice?

QUEEN V VANILLA ICE

Reasons For Reasons Against

Overall decision (included damages and/or percentage or revenue)

should Queen sue Vanilla Ice?

MARVIN GAYE V ROBIN THICKE

Evidence for the case

• Marvin Gaye - Got to give it up

• Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines

• Celebrity News Report - Marvin Gaye Junior to sue Robin Thicke

• The Independent - Thicke accused of plagiarism

MARVIN GAYE V ROBIN THICKE

Reasons For Reasons Against

Overall decision (included damages and/or percentage or revenue)

Marvin Gaye’s family should sue Robin Thicke?

GROUCHO MARX V WARNER BROS

Evidence for the case

While preparing to film a movie entitled A Night in Casablanca, the Marx brothers received a letter from Warner Bros. threatening legal action if they did not change the film’s title. Warner Bros. deemed the film’s title too similar to their own Casablanca, released almost five years earlier in 1942, with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.

Groucho's full letter to Warner Bros

See Exhibit A for Groucho Marx’s edited letter to the Warner Bros lawyers.

GROUCHO MARX V WARNER BROS

Reasons For Reasons Against

Overall decision (included damages and/or percentage or revenue)

should Groucho be allowed to use the name “A night in Casablanca”?

MGM STUDIOS V

007 REFRIGERATIONEvidence for the case

MGM studios, the producers of the 007 franchise forced the owners of a refrigeration company to change its name.

Mail Online News Article

MGM STUDIOS V

007 REFRIGERATION

Reasons For Reasons Against

Overall decision (included damages and/or percentage or revenue)

should 007 refrigeration be forced to change their name?

CADBURY’S V NESTLEEvidence for the case

Since 2008, Cadbury have been in a court battle with a rival as they feel no-one else should use “their” colour purple.

Earlier this year luxury shoemaker Christian Louboutin took YSL to court over a red high-heel shoe that had a red sole, synonymous with its own shoes.

A judge ruled YSL, and others, could not sell shoes with red soles unless the shoe itself was red. Harrods unsuccessfully fought to patent olive green and gold, while EasyGroup agreed with Orange to put a disclaimer on its orange mobile publicity.

Cadbury’s legal fight over the colour purple

CADBURY’S V NESTLE

Reasons For Reasons Against

Overall decision (included damages and/or percentage or revenue)

Should Nestle be allowed to use the colour purple?

APPLE V SAMSUNGEvidence for the case

• Apple paid $1bn in damages

• Wozniak "hates" patent dispute

APPLE V SAMSUNG

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Overall decision (included damages and/or percentage or revenue)

OFC V KFCEvidence for the case

OFC V KFC

Reasons For Reasons Against

Overall decision (included damages and/or percentage or revenue)

should OFC change their name and logo?

FINAL EVALUATIONIn which situations should patents, copyrights and trademarks be enforced?

Justify you answer.

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Overall decision