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Media Release -- The April issue of Corporate Counsel, the nation's leading publication for general counsel and in-house attorneys at corporations and nonprofits, profiles the top ten victories from 2009's intellectual property litigation docket. Reflecting the differing objectives of IP litigation today, they range from multimillion-dollar jury verdicts and a ruling affirming the validity of the patent on a blockbuster drug, to an injunction that keeps potentially infringing software off the market. They also include the biggest patent award on record, a $1.67 billion verdict won by Johnson & Johnson. For this and other stories, visit www.corpcounsel.com.
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Categories: DC Comics, Conventions, San Diego Comic-Con International, media release
Media Release -- July 1, 2009 – SAN DIEGO, CA – LAST SON, the new independent documentary film about Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, will screen at the 2009 Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival on Saturday, July 25 from 7:35-8:50 p.m. in Room 26AB.
Last Son is the highly anticipated, unauthorized documentary film about Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the two creators of Superman. Painstakingly researched for five years, Last Son throws out all the boring old mistruths and oversimplified stories in favor of a sharp, oftentimes shocking new take on how The Man of Steel was created during hard times and dark days in Depression-era Cleveland.
According to The Wrap, "A U.S. district court judge on Wednesday ruled that Warner Bros. had paid "fair market value" license fees to DC Comics for the rights to "Superman.""
A case had been brought last year by Joanne Siegel and Laura Siegel Larson (widow and daughter of Superman co-creator Jerome Siegel, respectively) against the studio, regarding copyright royalties. The plaintiffs claimed that Warner Bros and DC were involved in a "sweetheart deal," which, in turn, made their royalty amounts lower.
Last year, a federal court awarded the Siegel heirs half of the copyright in the famed Action Comics #1 edition, which features Superman. Remaining to be decided, however, was how much that copyright interest was worth.
05:32:25 pm, by ComicList
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Categories: DC Comics, Conventions, media release, Screaming Tiki Cleveland Super-Con
Media Release -- CLEVELAND (June 30, 2009)—Next weekend Cleveland welcomes the Superman-themed Screaming Tiki Cleveland Super-Con event, taking place here July 10-12, held in conjunction with the fifth annual Ingenuity Festival Cleveland. This is the first major comic book show in Cleveland since 1991.
Well-known actors, writers and artists will headline the convention, and a special event will honor the memory of Superman's creators, Cleveland natives Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the two Glenville teenagers who created Superman in the mid 1930s.
So far, $34,459 has been raised to refurbish Jerry Siegel's house in Cleveland.
During the month of September, Brad Meltzer's Siegel and Shuster Society will be auctioning items to raise money in order to repair and refurbish the childhood home of Jerry Siegel.
02:23:59 pm, by ComicList
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Categories: DC Comics, Awards, Joe Shuster Awards
Toronto, Canada --- April 10, 2008. Canada's first national award recognizing outstanding achievements by Canadian creators in the creation and publication of comic books and graphic novels returns in 2008 for it’s fourth year: the JOE SHUSTER CANADIAN COMIC BOOK CREATOR AWARDS, named after pioneering Toronto-born artist Joe Shuster who, along with writer Jerry Siegel, created the iconic super-powered hero, Superman.
The judge in the recent Superman court ruling has ordered all parties to attempt to negotiate a settlement:
Accordingly, the Court hereby ORDERS the parties to devote the next sixty (60) days to engaging in a good faith effort to settle their dispute in the Superman and Superboy litigation before the JAMS Mediator. At the conclusion of this period, on June 1, 2008, the parties are to file a joint report, outlining the efforts that they have taken in furtherance of settlement and the results of those efforts.
Jeff Trexler at Newsarama has boiled down the settlement issues for all us non lawyers:
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