“A Revived Injunction:  Federal Circuit Recently Affirmed Vitality of this Patent Remedy” National Law Journal January 2, 2012 – Brooks Kushm...

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Southfield, Mich., November 7, 2011 – Michigan intellectual property law firm Brooks Kushman P.C. is proud to announce several attorneys have been rec...

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SOUTHFIELD, Mich., March 28, 2011 – On March 18, a jury awarded Cheetah Omni LLC $5.4 million in damages against three subsidiaries of Verizon Communi...

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SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Sept. 22, 2010 – Five Brooks Kushman lawyers have been named to the 2010 Michigan Super Lawyers list, tying another local law firm ...

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Six lawyers from Brooks Kushman P.C. have been named to the 2009 Super Lawyers list, more than any other Michigan firm in the intellectual property (I...

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Six lawyers from the intellectual property (IP) law firm Brooks Kushman P.C. were named to the Super Lawyers list for 2008. Southfield, Mich.-based Brooks Kushman has more lawyers included in the IP categories of the 2008 Super Lawyers list than any other law firm in Michigan. The Super Lawyers list recognizes outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.

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Five lawyers from Brooks Kushman P.C. have been named to the 2007 “Michigan Super Lawyers” listing. “Super Lawyers” identifies the top five percent of attorneys in each state, as chosen by their peers and through independent research of Law & Politics magazine.

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Digital World Magazine

There are an increasing number of international sites offering music downloads at low prices with few copyright restrictions. Sites based in Russia and Spain claim to be legitimate, but Tom Lewry warns that bargain hunters should beware, “My advice would be stay away from them because you run the risk of being sued.”

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Publication:Intellectual Property Litigation Reporter, Vol. 11, Issue 12

On Aug. 5, 2004, U.S. District Judge Paul D. Borman of the Eastern District of Michigan entered judgment against Ford Motor Co.'s former customs broker in a landmark case that received worldwide attention from the customs brokerage industry. Caught up in this multimillion-dollar trade secrets dispute between Ford's former customs broker and its new customs service provider was an individual named Jennifer Sharkey, the only named defendant in this case.

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Publication:Bloomberg

This article notes that Novell Inc. will pay some clients if they are sued for copyright infringement to blunt the impact of threatened suits against Linux users. IBM and Intel pledged to contribute to a defense fund and Hewlett-Packard has agreed to indemnify its customers. Tom Lewry commented that, “The fund means there's money there to fight lawsuits, instead of giving clients money afterward as an indemnification program would”.

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Publication:Intellectual Property Litigation Reporter

A federal appellate court recently ruled that the RIAA cannot obtain the identities of file traders from their ISPs. Tom Lewry commented, "This is obviously going to put a huge monkey wrench" into the RIAA's plans to continue filing lawsuits against individual file traders. “However, the decision will not help the hundreds of individuals who have been sued by the RIAA over the past several months after the group obtained their identities from their ISPs. These cases are not like criminal cases in which information can be suppressed by a judge who finds that it was obtained illegally.”

Lewry represented four college students sued by RIAA for copyright infringement last year.

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Publication:NewsFactor Network

Tom Lewry is quoted in this article that discusses a new study about ethical issues related to downloading copyrighted music.

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Publication:Wired News

Tom Lewry is quoted in this article regarding the music industry’s plans to offer so-called “amnesty” to file traders who come forward and promise not download files in the future.

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Publication:America's Network

Tom Lewry is quoted in this article that discusses whether ISPs should be responsible for the billions of files that are downloaded each month from popular P2P networks.

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Publication:Telephony

Tom Lewry is quoted in this article from the June 16, 2003, issue of

Telephony

about the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) seemingly cautious pursuit of Internet music piracy.

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Publication:DMCA Alert

Thomas Lewry was quoted in the April 2003 issue of the DMCA Alert regarding the difficulties new encrypted peer-to-peer software programs present to college IT managers responsible for enforcing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

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Publication:RadioandRecords.com

An article in the April 28, 2003

PM Update

on

RadioandRecords.com

quoted Tom Lewry about the decision by a Los Angeles federal judge that Grokster Ltd, StreamCast Networks Inc. and Kazaa BV are not liable for copyright infringement committed by users of their file-sharing software.

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