Supreme Court Can’t Get Enough Copyright And Trademark

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January 28, 2020
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No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you: The U.S. Supreme Court is actually going to rule on six different copyright and trademark cases in a single term.

After a five-year stretch in which the court issued a total of three copyright rulings, the justices are set to issue three more over just the next five months. Among them will be Google v. Oracle, a potential landmark ruling on software with billions of dollars at stake.

“They clearly have some folks there interested in IP cases,” said Mark A. Lemley, a professor at Stanford Law School and an expert in intellectual property law. “But I don’t know that there’s any particular plan.”

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