A San Francisco jury ruled that Google violated copyright law in an action brought by Oracle. The jury did not decide on the secondary issue of whether using an API is fair use. Read more at arstechnica

In an effort to to drastically raise health insurance premiums, insurance companies are claiming a trade secret exception to keep company memos out of public scrutiny. Health insurance companies claim that the memos contain proprietary information that competitors can use against them.

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Some of the biggest names in technology have stepped up in support of EMC in a patent case highlighting issues surrounding filing infringement lawsuits against multiple defendents. 

Read more about it in the Boston Business Journal 

Tattoo artist, Victor Whitmill, is suing Warner Bros. alleging missappropriation of a tattoo in the film The Hangover II. Whitmill holds a copyright for the piece that he tattooed on former heavy weight champion, Mike Tyson's, face in 2003. Read more about this story on Wired