Zuffa v. Bellator/Pavia Litigation: Bellator Asserts Claim Against Julian Gregorio for Defamation & Some Theory of Misappropriation Based on Alleged Leak to Zuffa Following up on my coverage of Zuffa’s lawsuit against Bellator and Pavia — — a post with earlier links is here and here is my most recent post on the Court’s denial […]
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Zuffa Gets Some Help From The Government in its Piracy Battle
In my earlier article, Zuffa’s Piracy Fight– Winning The Battle, But Can It Win The War?, I described Zuffa’s multi-pronged attack against the piracy of its intellectual property. In that article, after addressing the different prongs of the attack, I concluded as follows: Despite all of its successes outlined above, it is important to remember that shutting down […]
Team Quest lawsuit: Henderson sues for name rights
This past Monday, Dan Henderson has sued Matt Lindland for the rights to the name of Team Quest. The lawsuit filed in California claims copyright and trademark infringement against Lindland over the Team Quest mark. Via Cage Potato: The dispute centers on ownership and rights to the Team Quest name. Henderson was at one point […]
Google and Zuffa Copyright “Fight” Continues
As you may recall from my earlier article back in November, Zuffa Takes the Piracy Fight to Google, Zuffa continued its battle against piracy by sending a Digital Millennium Copyright notification to Google. As set forth in my earlier article, Zuffa was attempting to get Google to stop having its search engine return results for a number […]
Bad Day for MMA in NY
Getting anything done in Albany is difficult and leads to frustration and efforts to legalize MMA are no exception. As I stated recently during an interview with TapouT Radio, I believed the odds of MMA being legalized in New York State this year would go up dramatically if Governor Cuomo, like Governor Patterson last year, included a provision in his Executive Budget lifting […]