Chinese writer loses lawsuit against Fox
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A court ruled Friday that a Chinese science fiction writer did not have enough evidence to prove that 20th Century Fox stole his ideas when making the 2004 movie "The Day After Tomorrow."
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A federal judge has dismissed a  lawsuit against O.J. Simpson over an advance the ex-football  star was paid for his scuttled book about the murders of his  ex-wife and her friend.
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Nike Inc. has lost a copyright suit to a Chinese animator over the US footwear and apparel maker&#39;s use of a stick figure illustration, according to published reports.
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A federal appeals court tossed out an indecency ruling against Rupert Murdoch's Fox television network yesterday and broadly questioned whether the Federal Communications Commission has the right to police the airwaves for offensive language.
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A New York scientist's seven-year effort to win a patent on a laboratory-conceived creature that is part human and part animal ended in failure Friday, closing a historic and somewhat ghoulish chapter in American intellectual-property law.
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Last Week in China - Baidu, Blogger and a China Summer Ends Some of the more noteworthy news tidbits that happened in China last week. Baidu wins lawsuit over MP3&#8217;s A bit more than a week ago Chinese search engine Baidu won a MP3 copyright infringement case lawsuit, brought to court by 7 of the world&#8217;s largest music [...]
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The Los Angeles comedy writer-producer who penned Fox's "In Living Color" and created Nickelodeon's "Roundhouse" has sued the Walt Disney Co., claiming it stole the idea for its hit Disney Channel show, "Hannah Montana," from him.
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A federal court judge  has dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit against The Walt  Disney Co. concerning its movie "Sweet Home Alabama"
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Text of report by Belgian RTBF radio on 13 February  Google has lost its court case against the publishers of Belgian French-language newspapers.
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The Los Angeles comedy  writer-producer who penned Fox&#39;s &quot;In Living Color&quot; and created  Nickelodeon&#39;s &quot;Roundhouse&quot; has sued the Walt Disney Co.,  claiming it stole the idea for its hit Disney Channel show,  &quot;Hannah Montana,&quot; from him.
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China backs down from a censorship plan that required people to register on blog sites with their real names.
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A Chinese animator has won a court battle against the U.S. footwear and apparel maker Nike Inc. over the company's use of a stick figure illustration, state media reported Thursday.
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A Taiwanese firm has dropped its libel   claim against two Shanghai journalists and their newspaper for   saying that workers at a plant manufacturing iPods were   mistreated, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.
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A federal judge on Thursday threw  out the charges against a Chinese American woman accused of  taking national security materials from her FBI agent lover.
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BEIJING, Dec. 1 -- The three-year fraud sentence of a Beijing-based researcher for the New York Times was upheld by Beijing's High Court on Friday, the only remaining charge against him after a more serious accusation of leaking state secrets was dismissed in August.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6 -- A federal judge Thursday dismissed all charges against a Chinese American woman accused of using a sexual affair with an FBI agent to gain unauthorized access to classified documents.
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The trial of a Chinese researcher for The New York Times who is accused of fraud and leaking state secrets ended Friday after one day, his lawyer said.