Hoverboards, Angry Birds and A Cabin in the Woods – Today’s Interesting IP

It’s been a tough day at Interesting IP towers. There’s not a lot of gold out there today, but still a few nuggets:

• The Hoverboard is real….but the inventor is being sued by segway! http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/segway-inventist-patent-battle-marty-822419

• The Art of Cybersquatting – http://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/Blog/detail.aspx?g=504c56e8-7cb4-432f-8332-248c5c6f67a7
• Using other people’s Trade Marks on your own website – AmazonvsFlipkart.com – http://www.sinapseblog.com/intellectual-property-flipkart-serves-legal-notice-to-blogger/
• Infringing Copyright on Youtube – What if your use is fair use? The Dancing Toddler has spoken – http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/14/us-vivendi-universalmusic-takedowns-idUKKCN0RE1VR20150914
• What is ‘Genuine Use’ when it comes to Trade Marks? Click Here For Article
• A Cyber Security Firm ‘FireEye’ got an injunction to stop a breach of it’s intellectual property rights in disclosing a flaw in its software (or something) – Click Here for Article

Also, there’s been some other interesting articles, but they are behind paywalls. For what it’s worth:

Angry Birds haven’t been able to stop ‘Angry Bite’ in the Class 30 Food Category

A scriptwriter to says the Purge is ripped off from his original script says two of the producers he was suing should not have been removed from the case

The producers of ‘A Cabin in the Woods’ were also sued by someone saying the movie ripped off a 2006 novel. The judge disagreed saying that “the only similarities between the two were unprotectable horror tropes.”

More tomorrow

Brian