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... Toyquest's use of the trademarked yellow color of Wham-O's Slip-n-Slide toys. Toyquest is a dba of SLB Toys USA. The Court also entered a permanent injunction ... the terms of this Court's injunction by continuing to sell and distribute to retailers unauthorized slides bearing" the yellow waterslide trademark and to advertise the same. Wham-O asserts that ... same individual defendants that were officers in SLB Toys. The case is titled: WHAM-O, Inc. v. Manley Toys, LTD., CV08-01281 PSG (C.D. California). ...

... case can be found here (21 MB pdf). Jarvis v. K2 Inc. C.A.9 (Wash.),2007. United States Court of Appeals,Ninth Circuit. ... Jarvis is a professional photographer who created several thousand photographic slides over a three-year period for K2, Inc. ("K2″), a maker of outdoor sporting goods. Unfortunately, this relationship ... K2, alleging that it infringed his copyrights in his photographic images, lost many of the slides that he delivered and repeatedly failed to credit him when it used his images. ...

... , when the two cannot be separated, personal and business persona, when can the public ever win? MATTEL INC., a Delaware Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant v. WALKING MOUNTAIN PRODUCTIONS, a California Business Entity; TOM FORSYTHE, an individual ... four Barbie dolls wrapped in tortillas and covered with salsa in a casserole dish in a lit oven. n1 Forsythe possessed slides of 386 additional photographs that he never published, distributed, or sold because he considered them inadequate for the series ...

... motion to dismiss, plaintiff argued that the court could exercise general jurisdiction over defendant due to its "continuous and systematic general business contacts" in Illinois. Relying on the Zippo sliding scale test [Zippo Mfg. Co. v. Zippo Dot Com, Inc., 952 F.Supp. 1119 (W.D. Pa. 1997)], plaintiff claimed these contacts arose through defendant's website which allowed its visitors to make appointments, ...

The Walford (Litigation guardian of) v. Jacuzzi Canada Inc. court decision was released by the Ontario Court of Appeal on October 23, 2007. Marion Walford's family owned an aboveground backyard pool which they bought in 1994. Ms. purchased a second-hand slide for the pool which she found in a classified ad. After purchasing the slide, Mrs. Walford [...]

... is Vanessa, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time I would like to welcome everyone to the Epiq Systems Inc. earnings release conference call. (Operator Instructions) It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to your host, ... Time, and is available on our website at www.epiqsystems.com. There you can also access the webcast of this call including slides of supplemental information. The webcast will be archived until next quarter's call and a phone replay will be available ...

Thompson v. Jiffy Lube International, Inc., et al., 505 F. Supp.2d 907 (D. Kan. April 23, 2007) This one's a journey down the yellow brick road to dismissal of the plaintiffs' ... , negligence, and unjust enrichment against Jiffy Lube Incorporated (JLI) and two JLI franchises, R & P Enterprises, Inc. and Heartland Automotive, Inc. The complaint alleged that JLI engaged in a number of deceptive sales practices, including recommending that customers purchase unnecessary services and charging an ...

... Circuit affirmed a district court's ruling that patents at issue in Aventis Pharma S.A. v. Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 525 F.3d 1334, are unenforceable due to Aventis' omission of relevant experimental information from its submissions to ... Supreme Court lawyer Ted Olson and filed for Certiorari, saying Federal Circuit panels have adopted an improper "sliding scale" under which "less intent" is required as the materiality of an omission or misrepresentation increases. Certainly the omission of ...

What triggers the running of the statute of limitations for a securities fraud action is suddenly a hot topic, thanks to a possible Supreme Court case and a recent Second Circuit decision. In Staehr v. Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.,...

... time the deponent should answer, "I cannot recall". Likewise, there is "The Bob", that slight shake of the head while looking over documents - careful to avoid eye contact - signaling that the answer is "no". And what about that faux-intelligence move of sliding one's glasses down their nose, thus telling the witness to "shut up!". Finally, there is the less subtle but just as convincing kick to the shin underneath the deposition table. Regardless of what context these covert signals are made, ...