Intellectual Property Law
New Matter SUMMER 2015 Volume 40, Number 2
Content
- 2015 New Matter Author Submission Guidelines
- Civil Case on Redskins Heats Up: Pro-Football, Inc. v. Amanda Blackhorse, et al.
- Contents
- Copyright Interest Group
- Entertainment and Sports Law Interest Group
- Federal Circuit Review
- Intellectual Property Section Executive Committee 2014-2015
- Intellectual Property Section Interest Group Representatives 2014-2015
- International Ip Developments
- Legislation Update
- Letter from the Chair
- Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
- Licensing Interest Group
- Litigation Interest Group
- MCLE Self-Study Article
- Newsflash
- Ninth Circuit Report
- Patent Interest Group
- Patently "Wrong:" Scotus rules that the Federal Circuit has Misused the "De Novo" Standard when Reviewing Claim Construction Determinations
- Runaway jurisprudence: Has the "But For" Test for Proving Inequitable Conduct in Patent Cases Gone Awry, Gone Rogue, or Gone Quiet?
- The Licensing Corner
- The Moral of B&B Hardware: Companies Need to Be Strategic in Trademark Actions Before the Ttab
- The State Bar of California Intellectual Property Alumni
- Trademark Interest Group
- Case Comments
Case Comments
LOWELL ANDERSON Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker
COPYRIGHTS – ASSIGNMENTS
Whether viewed as a license or assignment, an agreement by members of the Four Seasons that granted the "exclusive right to use" their life stories, including biographies, names and likenesses, transferred rights that encompassed a derivative musical work based on those life stories. Granting exclusive rights to one’s life story while retaining the right over one’s biography would be self-defeating. Fact issues arose on reversionary rights. Summary judgment denying an equitable accounting was reversed and remanded. Corbello v. DeVito, 777 F.3d 1058, 113 U.S.P.Q.2d 1789 (9th Cir. 2015).