Russ August & Kabat attorneys Christine Shin, Lauren Geisser, and Dor Cohen represented Skylar Body in its sale to Starco Brands. Skylar Body is a trailblazer in the clean fragrance space. Free of toxic chemicals and made with sustainable ingredients, Skylar Body is 100% vegan, cruelty-free, and hypoallergenic. Starco Brands (OTCQB: STCB) invents consumer products with behavior-changing technologies that spark excitement in the everyday. Read the press release.
Russ August & Kabat Partner Bennett A. Bigman‘s article, “Warhol, Prince and the Future of Copyright”, was published in the 10/6/22 issue of the Daily Journal. The article discusses Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith and the Supreme Court’s review of what qualifies as “transformative” expression under the copyright fair use analysis. The article concludes that courts may face even more difficult questions about whether human expression is needed for protection of original or transformative works as AI-generated content and works created by computer algorithms become more prevalent. Read the article.
On June 3, 2022, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a $16.7M judgment in favor of client Pavo Solutions, LLC against defendant Kingston Technology, Co. The Court’s decision secured a jury verdict that RAK obtained previously in the Central District of California, which included a jury finding of willful infringement and a 50% enhancement of the awarded damages by the District Court. In a precedential decision, the Court affirmed a difficult and rare issue of judicial correction of an issued patent claim, confirmed that an infringer may not escape a finding of willful infringement merely based on an error in a patent claim, clarified what may be considered in determining reasonable royalty damages, and provided guidance on when certain issues are forfeited and not preserved for appeal. Pavo is represented by Russ August & Kabat attorneys Benjamin T. Wang, Marc Fenster, Andrew D. Weiss, Adam S. Hoffman, Jacob R. Buczko, and Minna Y. Chan. Read the Opinion.
Russ August & Kabat Partner, Irene Y. Lee, who has been recognized as a 2022 ‘Top 100’ Southern California Super Lawyer and a 2022 ‘Top 50 Women’ Southern California Super Lawyer, was profiled in the Super Lawyers Magazine article, “The Two Culture Edge – Irene Y. Lee’s motto is ‘avoid drama’; opposing attorneys don’t always help.”
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Irene Y. Lee is a partner at Russ August & Kabat, where she focuses her practice on all aspects of intellectual property, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and right of publicity. Irene helps clients navigate through the issues surrounding creating, acquiring, securing, protecting, defending, enforcing, licensing, and monetizing their rights in various forms of intellectual property worldwide and counsels them on risk management. Read more.
Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. Irene Y. Lee has been named a Southern California Super Lawyer every year since 2014 and as a Super Lawyers Rising Star prior to that.
Russ August & Kabat attorneys Christine Shin, Lauren Geisser, and Dor Cohen represented Knowable in its sale to Medium. Knowable is an audio-based learning platform with funding from Andreesen Horowitz, Upfront, First Round and Initialized. Medium is an online publishing platform developed by Evan Williams, former co-founder of Twitter. Medium was originally founded in order to allow online users to publish writings longer than Twitter’s 140 character maximum. Read article.
Russ August & Kabat Partner Diana Sanders‘ article, “Barristers Tips”, concerning issues and privileges relating to the anti-SLAPP statute, was published in the November 2021 edition of Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine. Read more.
