August 02, 2024
In this inaugural edition of Wheeling & Appealing, Law360 recaps recent appellate opinions that made waves, quizzes readers about a new word for judicial grievances, and previews August arguments in circuit courts over controversial wage rules and a seven-figure attorney fee award after a digital age intellectual property trial.
January 25, 2024
The artists accused of ripping off the Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible token collection have been ordered to pay creator Yuga Labs more than $7 million in attorney fees and costs, despite their concerns that Yuga's counsel at Fenwick & West LLP overbilled in the case.
October 26, 2023
A California federal judge has awarded non-fungible token studio Yuga Labs nearly $1.6 million from a pair of alleged copycats who sold competing tokens that were found to infringe the studio's Bored Ape Yacht Club collection.
July 31, 2023
The president of the company behind Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible tokens testified Monday during a one-day California federal bench trial that a rival's infringing tokens are not artistic criticism, and also rejected a comparison to Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup can paintings, saying the famed pop artist "wasn't selling soup at the grocery store."
April 24, 2023
The firm behind the popular non-fungible token collection Bored Ape Yacht Club won its case against an alleged copycat, with a California federal judge ruling Saturday that Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen's sale of their own version of Yuga Labs Inc.'s iconic NFTs "is no more artistic than the sale of a counterfeit handbag."
March 20, 2023
A California federal judge on Monday threw out the bulk of an artist's counterclaims in Yuga Labs Inc.'s trademark suit against him over its Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible token collection, finding that the claims don't hold up under California law and ordering them to cover Yuga's attorney fees.
January 11, 2023
An artist has accused Yuga Labs Inc. of wrongly withholding discovery documents in the company's trademark suit against him over its Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible token collection, arguing that the sought-after evidence could extinguish the infringement claims and aid counterclaims concerning federal copyright law and harassment.
December 20, 2022
Yuga Labs can move forward with its lawsuit against an artist accused of copying and selling images that are part of the Bored Ape Yacht Club nonfungible tokens, after a New York federal judge determined that a free speech test doesn't apply to the artist's products.
August 16, 2022
An artist accused by Yuga Labs of copying and reselling images that are part of the Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible token collection filed an anti-SLAPP motion Monday to get Yuga's suit tossed.
July 21, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a fair use case over Andy Warhol's portraits of the music icon Prince, and federal courts are grappling with the first wave of lawsuits involving non-fungible tokens. Here are the top copyright and trademark cases to keep an eye on in the second half of 2022.