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Case of the Day: Facebook v. Banana Ads
No, today’s case of the day does not involve the Winklevi. Instead, it involves one of the most annoying bad practices on the Internet: typosquatting. I fall victim to it almost every day when I point my browser at nytiems.com or hufingtonpost.com. Some kinds of typosquatting are worse than others. Some involve pointless ads that……
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Case of the Day: S&S Machinery Corp. v. Wuhan Heavy Duty Machine Tool Group
The case of the day is S&S Machinery Corp. v. Wuhan Heavy Duty Machine Tool Group Co. (E.D.N.Y. 2012). S&S was a machine tools merchant in New York. Under a 1999 agreement, it was the exclusive agent in North and South America for Wuhan, one of China’s largest machine tool manufacturers. The agreement gave S&S……
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Case of the Day: In re China Intelligent Lighting and Electronics Sec. Litig.
The case of the day is In re China Intelligent Lighting & Electronics, Inc. Securities Litigation (C.D. Cal. 2012). The plaintiffs, Perritt Emerging Opportunities Fund, Universal Invest Quality SICAV, Acero SA, and Antoine de Sejournet, brought a putative class action against China Intelligent Lighting, a Delaware corporation doing business in China, and several officers or……
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Case of the Day: First Investment Corp. of the Marshall Islands v. Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding
The case of the day is First Investment Corp. of the Marshall Islands v. Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding, Ltd. of the People’s Republic of China (E.D. La. 2012). The case involved a shipbuilding contract. The Fujian Group, a Chinese state-owned enterprise, and Mawei, a private corporation that was majority-owned by Fujian, refused to honor a contractual……
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Case of the Day: Rose v. Deer Consumer Products
The case of the day is Rose v. Deer Consumer Products, Inc. (C.D. Cal. 2011). According to the complaint, Deer was a small appliance manufacturer in China. Deer was a public company. Because it was in financial difficulty, it sought new investment from the United States. But according to the plaintiffs, Deer “lied about its……