Can Coronavirus Be Blamed For Copyright Looting?

Is copyright looting justified? Rakuten Kobo Inc., a Canadian company that sells e-books, audiobooks, e-readers, and tablet computers, has signed up 2 million new users during the past three months, illustrating the rise in e-book adoption. The global coronavirus...

Safe Shopping Online… What Is The Shop SAFE Act?

As the e-commerce retail online platform gains in popularity and captures a larger percentage of consumer spending, counterfeiting increases as well.  The Stopping Harmful Offers on Platforms by Screening Against Fakes in E-Commerce Act (Shop Safe Act 2020) seeks to...

COVID’s Impact on IP Law

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced massive worldwide changes that impact all areas of life, including the practice of law.  Fortunately for Intellectual Property (IP) law, a solid infrastructure for electronic communications was already in existence which has minimized...

Ference & Associates Secures Another In A Series of Judgments Against Online Counterfeiters

Ference & Associates, a boutique intellectual property law firm, announced today that it has secured an $8 million judgment and permanent injunction against sellers of counterfeit Negg® egg peelers on the Amazon.com online marketplace.  The plaintiff in this case...

Ference & Associates Secures $44 Million Judgment and Injunctive Relief Against Online Counterfeiters, Upping The Total Counterfeiting Judgments Secured By The Firm Since March 2019 to nearly $150 million

Pittsburgh, PA-based intellectual property law firm, Ference & Associates announced that it secured judgments in the amount of $44 million and permanent injunctive relief in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania in a civil...