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New Non-Compete Health Care Restrictions in Connecticut

Trading Secrets

JUNE 14, 2023

As various states and federal agencies seek to prohibit or limit the use of non-competes, Connecticut joined the trend. Connecticut’s new legislation, SB 9, expands restrictions on the enforceability of physician non-competes and extends these restrictions to advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) and physician assistants (PAs).

Ownership

Ownership Contracts Law Business

New Non-Compete Health Care Restrictions in Connecticut

LexBlog IP

JUNE 14, 2023

As various states and federal agencies seek to prohibit or limit the use of non-competes, Connecticut joined the trend. Connecticut’s new legislation, SB 9, expands restrictions on the enforceability of physician non-competes and extends these restrictions to advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) and physician assistants (PAs).

Ownership

Ownership Contracts Law Business

New Non-Compete Health Care Restrictions in Connecticut

JD Supra Law

JUNE 15, 2023

As various states and federal agencies seek to prohibit or limit the use of non-competes, Connecticut joined the trend. Connecticut’s new legislation, SB 9, expands restrictions on the enforceability of physician non-competes and extends these restrictions to advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) and physician assistants (PAs).

It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again—Connecticut Borrows Heavily from Massachusetts Law in Proposed Non-Compete Legislation

Trading Secrets

MAY 16, 2022

The duration of a non-compete would typically be limited to no longer than one year like under Massachusetts law, except that the Connecticut bill would permit a covenant of up to two years where the employer pays the employee’s base salary and benefits.

Law

Law Business Copying Litigation

Connecticut Enacts Legislation to Incentivize Adoption of Cybersecurity Safeguards and Expand Breach Reporting Obligations

LexBlog IP

JULY 15, 2021

On June 16, and then on July 6, 2021, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law a pair of bills that together address privacy and cybersecurity in the state. ” PA 21-59 also extends the circumstances in which an entity is obligated to offer identity theft protection to Connecticut residents affected by a breach.

Reporting

Reporting Privacy Business Licensing

SDNY: 48th v Avra: No personal jurisdiction in NY over Connecticut resort w/ NY customers

LexBlog IP

JANUARY 25, 2022

One resort is in Connecticut. Avra Hospitality LLC et al. Date: January 24, 2022. Docket Number: 1:2019cv07708. Defendant is headquartered in Minnesota. It operates restaurants and resorts. Defendant’s website is accessible in NY. ” Best Van Lines, 490 F.3d 3d at 252.

Business

Business Intellectual Property Trademark

McCarter & English Wants Ex-Client To Cough Up Extra $1.8M

IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

McCarter & English LLP on Thursday asked a federal judge in Connecticut to hike a prejudgment remedy order against a former client by $1.8 million, arguing that interest on subsequent jury awards continues to add up as the dispute spills from federal court to the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Books are Not Floor Wax and Road Salt

The Illusion of More

MARCH 9, 2023

One would think this is obvious, particularly to a librarian, but perhaps not to Douglas Lord, President of the Connecticut Library Association (CLA). In a letter addressed to the state assembly advocating passage of H.B.

Licensing

Licensing Law

Conn. IP Atty Can Send Holiday Cards To Rival's Clients

IP Law 360

JANUARY 29, 2024

A Connecticut magistrate judge ruled Monday that while a settlement agreement barring an intellectual property attorney from contacting his ex-partner's clients extends to the attorney's new firm, it doesn't prevent the lawyer from sending holiday greetings because the prohibition's broadness flouted Connecticut state law.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Settlement IP Law

Client Marketing May Be 'Fair Game' In Atty Fight, Judge Says

IP Law 360

JANUARY 19, 2024

Courts might not have the authority to order an attorney to refrain from marketing to a competitor's clients, an "exceptionally skeptical" Connecticut federal judge observed Friday as he considered a dispute arising from a settlement between two former law partners.

Marketing

Marketing Marketing Settlement Law

Edible Arrangements' Prior Deal Forecloses IP Row With Rival

IP Law 360

MARCH 22, 2024

A Georgia federal judge ended Edible Arrangements' trademark suit accusing 1-800-Flowers.com of bidding on and buying keywords related to Edible's products for search engine advertisements, finding the parties' prior settlement releasing 1-800-Flowers from similar conduct challenged by Edible in Connecticut federal court years ago barred its current (..)

Settlement

Settlement Advertising Advertising IP

2nd Circ. Affirms Breitling Fair Use Win In 'Red Gold' TM Suit

IP Law 360

MARCH 14, 2024

A split Second Circuit panel on Thursday affirmed a Connecticut federal judge's decision that Breitling USA Inc. fairly used the phrase "red gold" to describe the color of its products after a California jeweler with a 2003 trademark registration battled the Swiss watchmaker over its use of the phrase.

Fair Use

Fair Use Registration Trademark

Conn. Atty Must Withdraw Billing Notices To Rival's Clients

IP Law 360

JANUARY 24, 2024

Stamford, Connecticut-based intellectual property attorney Paul D. Greeley must send corrective messages to a competitor's clients after his firm accidentally sent them allegedly improper billing statements, a Connecticut federal judge ordered Wednesday.

Intellectual Property

Study Platform Told To Turn Over Copyright Data To University

IP Law 360

JANUARY 23, 2024

to turn over any documents or data it has that could show that it failed to follow the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to a Connecticut university accusing it of stealing school resources and passing them off as its own. A federal magistrate judge ordered study aid platform Learneo Inc.

Copyright

Salesman Accused Of AI Misuse Must Hand Over Co. Docs

IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A Connecticut salesman who allegedly used the artificial intelligence application Otter to record company calls must return any of his former employer's internal documents that are still in his possession and swear that he no longer has any of the material at issue in a trade secrets lawsuit, a federal judge has ruled.

Update on Connecticut’s Consumer Privacy Law: How Has it Been Enforced?

LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CDPA), which became effective on July 1, 2023, provides Connecticut residents with certain rights over their personal information and establishes responsibilities and privacy protection standards for businesses that process personal information.

Privacy

Privacy Law Reporting Business

Atlanta Restaurant Co. Sues Conn. Brewery With Similar Name

IP Law 360

JANUARY 31, 2024

A Connecticut brewery is using a name, signage and designs similar to that of the two-location, Georgia-based 5Church restaurant even after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied the brewer's own registration attempt, according to a new trademark infringement lawsuit.

Registration

Registration Designs Design Trademark

"no preservatives" plausibly misleading where ingredients had preservative function

43(B)log

JANUARY 18, 2023

While Kelly didn’t lack standing to bring claims under other states’ substantively identical consumer protection statutes, the Connecticut claims went because CUTPA bars a nonresident of Connecticut who was injured outside of Connecticut from bringing class action claims under CUTPA.

Marketing

Marketing Marketing False Advertising Advertising

Salesman Used AI To Transcribe Calls, Steal Secrets, Co. Says

IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Two Nebraska-based technology companies say a former Connecticut salesman used the "unauthorized" artificial intelligence program Otter to record meetings, forwarded more than 200 confidential messages to his personal email address and made off with trade secrets for accounts worth $12 million after he was fired for cause on Feb.

Confidentiality

Confidentiality Technology

SRIP come calling for copyright infringement?

JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

However, the map they show on their website lists other states such as Colorado, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Texas and Georgia as other states where they have legal counsel. They list offices in New York, Los Angeles, Boca Raton, Florida, and Nashville, Tennessee. By: Vondran Legal

Copyright Infringement

Copyright Infringement Copyright IP Law

US Counties Where Women Get Patents Grew Over 30 Years

IP Law 360

OCTOBER 19, 2022

counties where women received patents increased 32% between 1990 and 2019, with women having the strongest showing in Michigan, Texas, Connecticut, Massachusetts and California counties, according to a U.S. The number of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office report issued Wednesday.

Patent

Patent Reporting Trademark

Settlement Cools Off Conn. Pizza Chain's Trademark Fight

IP Law 360

MARCH 5, 2024

The parties in a long-running trademark dispute involving the Connecticut-based pizza chain Colony Grill, which twice was delivered to the Second Circuit, have permanently dropped their claims against each other in the wake of a recent settlement.

Settlement

Settlement Trademark

Conn. Judge Shreds Patent Motions Over Local Rule 'Failure'

IP Law 360

JUNE 9, 2023

Citing the company's "failure" to dutifully follow local meet-and-confer rules, a federal jurist in Connecticut on Friday handed additional losses to CM Systems LLC in a dispute over the alleged infringement of restaurant food safety technology patents.

Patent

Patent Technology

Medical Gas Supplier Lincare And Ex-CEO Settle Data Dispute

IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A federal judge in Connecticut on Wednesday approved a stipulated permanent injunction between medical gas supplier Lincare Inc. and former CEO Crispin Teufel that bans Teufel from using data downloaded from Lincare in any new role after he signed a since-scuttled deal to become CEO of a competitor.

Rocker's Family Demands Trial In Conn. Custom Guitar Suit

IP Law 360

JUNE 13, 2023

Family members of late guitarist Mick Ronson are demanding a bench trial on their claim that a Connecticut instrument store no longer has the right to produce or market electric guitars inspired by the rocker's career, according to a new filing in a lightning-quick state court lawsuit.

Marketing

Marketing Marketing

Conn. Judge Lets Atty Rep His Own Firm Against Consultant

IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A Connecticut judge has rejected a web consultant's bid to disqualify an attorney from representing his own firm in its breach of duty and unfair trade practices case against the consultant despite the web services company's argument that he is also a key witness.

Metal Band Shreds Royalties Suit Against Guitarist's Widow

IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The popular heavy metal band All That Remains has dropped a lawsuit in Connecticut federal court accusing its longtime guitarist's widow of blocking royalties to the surviving members and using improper copyright claims to remove some of the act's best-known work from video sharing sites.

Copyright

Gartner, Hackett Settle Trade Secrets, Employee-Poaching Suit

IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

have settled a trade secrets fight that saw each company accuse the other of unfair trade practices, according to a filing dismissing the case from Connecticut federal court. Consulting firm Gartner Inc. and its rival The Hackett Group Inc.

BREAKING: 1st, 2nd Circ Picks Among Latest Biden Judicial Nominations

IP Law 360

APRIL 27, 2022

District Court judge from Connecticut to the Second Circuit and the public defender of Rhode Island to a vacancy on the First Circuit, according to a White House announcement. President Joe Biden tapped two women with experience as public defenders to serve on federal appellate courts Wednesday, nominating a U.S.

Study Website Can't Escape Conn. College's Copyright Claim

IP Law 360

AUGUST 28, 2023

A website that asks college students to upload study guides and course documents in return for the ability to download similar material cannot escape a copyright lawsuit by a for-profit Connecticut university connected to the site's own watermarks copyright notice, a Connecticut federal judge has determined.

Copyright

Copyright Copyright Notice

Humanism Should Replace Formalism In The Courts

IP Law 360

APRIL 11, 2023

The worrying tendency for judges to say "it's just the law talking, not me" in American decision writing has coincided with an historic decline in respect for the courts, but this trend can be reversed if courts develop understandable legal standards and justify them in human terms, says Connecticut Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher.

Law

Metal Band Accuses Guitarist's Widow Of Blocking Royalties

IP Law 360

JANUARY 9, 2023

The widow of heavy metal guitarist Oli Herbert is holding up royalty payments to the surviving members of All That Remains and making overly broad ownership claims to some of the band's most popular music, according to a new federal lawsuit in Connecticut.

Ownership

Ownership Music

Conn. Firm Accuses Copyright Case Foe Of Filing False Docs

IP Law 360

JANUARY 26, 2024

A Connecticut firm embroiled in a yearslong, multistate copyright battle over images on its website has told a California federal judge that the stock photo website accusing it of infringement submitted false and inaccurate information to the U.S. Copyright Office.

Copyright

No Implied License Exists In Lego Copyright Suit, Judge Rules

IP Law 360

MARCH 15, 2023

The filing of a lawsuit accusing Lego of copyright infringement inherently revoked any implied license that the toy company may have obtained to use a New York artist's custom clothing design in a play set based on the Netflix series "Queer Eye," a Connecticut federal judge ruled Wednesday in declining to toss out the case.

Licensing

Licensing Copyright Copyright Infringement Designs

Policy Language Copyright Suit Must Continue, Court Told

IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

An insurance policy licensing group and an underwriting company told a Connecticut federal judge that their copyright claims alleging a competitor stole key and unique policy language cannot be tossed, saying a carrier's motion to dismiss raises an issue of material fact that precludes dismissal.

Copyright

Copyright Licensing

Second Circuit Copyright Ruling Affirms Independent Contractor Status for Friday the 13th Author

IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Miller in which the appellate court affirmed a summary judgment ruling in the District of Connecticut which found that Victor Miller was an independent contractor when writing the script for the 1980 classic horror film Friday the 13th. On September 30, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a ruling in Horror Inc.

Copyright

Copyright Litigation Intellectual Property IP

Conn. University Seeks Website's Databases In DMCA Suit

IP Law 360

JANUARY 19, 2024

A Connecticut university on Friday asked a judge to order CourseHero.com to provide internal databases that could detail the study aid website's compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a move the site has resisted, citing the sensitivity of the data and questioning its relevance.

Copyright

IP Forecast: Pfizer Wants Talks With FBI Kept Under Wraps

IP Law 360

JANUARY 19, 2023

Pfizer is set to tell a Connecticut federal court next week that communications between its lawyers and the FBI shouldn't be disclosed in its trade secrets suit accusing former executives of stealing diabetes and cancer medication research.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property IP

Fla. Consultant Says Conn. Firm Can't Sue Over Data Access

IP Law 360

MARCH 2, 2023

A former independent contractor for a Greenwich, Connecticut, law firm asked a Connecticut federal court to dismiss a trade secrets lawsuit the firm brought against him, or at least move the case to Florida.

Law

Warner Bros. Wins Copyright Ruling Against Sports Charity

IP Law 360

JUNE 15, 2022

A federal judge in California has permanently blocked a fitness-oriented charity group in suburban Connecticut from naming its "running clubs" after unlicensed references to the "Harry Potter" franchise and the TV show "Gilmore Girls."

Copyright

Jury Invalidates Card Reader Patents In PayPal Supplier Trial

IP Law 360

JULY 18, 2022

which supplies credit card readers to PayPal, infringed two patents owned by a Connecticut company called Ioengine LLC, but concluded that all the infringed claims are invalid, freeing Ingenico from liability. A Delaware jury decided Friday that Ingenico Inc.,

Patent

McCarter & English Brings On IP Partner, Inventor In Conn.

IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

McCarter & English LLP has hired an intellectual property partner, who is also an inventor with more than 37 US patents, in its Hartford, Connecticut, office.

Inventor

Inventor Intellectual Property IP Patent

DOJ and Attorneys General Say Google’s Tactics Have ‘Broken’ Ad Tech Competition

IP Watchdog

JANUARY 25, 2023

The Attorneys General of California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia joined the suit. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Attorneys General of eight U.S.

Advertising

Advertising Advertising Publishing Technology

Dietary Supplement Cos. Settle 'Jet Fuel' Trademark Suit

IP Law 360

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A confidential settlement has brought a federal trademark lawsuit between two dietary supplement companies to a close in the District of Connecticut, according to a joint motion to dismiss the dispute surrounding use of the phrase "jet fuel" to describe competing products.

Trademark

Trademark Confidentiality Settlement

New Non-Compete Health Care Restrictions in Connecticut

New Non-Compete Health Care Restrictions in Connecticut

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New Non-Compete Health Care Restrictions in Connecticut

It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again—Connecticut Borrows Heavily from Massachusetts Law in Proposed Non-Compete Legislation

Connecticut Enacts Legislation to Incentivize Adoption of Cybersecurity Safeguards and Expand Breach Reporting Obligations

SDNY: 48th v Avra: No personal jurisdiction in NY over Connecticut resort w/ NY customers

McCarter & English Wants Ex-Client To Cough Up Extra $1.8M

Books are Not Floor Wax and Road Salt

Conn. IP Atty Can Send Holiday Cards To Rival's Clients

Client Marketing May Be 'Fair Game' In Atty Fight, Judge Says

Edible Arrangements' Prior Deal Forecloses IP Row With Rival

2nd Circ. Affirms Breitling Fair Use Win In 'Red Gold' TM Suit

Conn. Atty Must Withdraw Billing Notices To Rival's Clients

Study Platform Told To Turn Over Copyright Data To University

Salesman Accused Of AI Misuse Must Hand Over Co. Docs

Update on Connecticut’s Consumer Privacy Law: How Has it Been Enforced?

Atlanta Restaurant Co. Sues Conn. Brewery With Similar Name

"no preservatives" plausibly misleading where ingredients had preservative function

Salesman Used AI To Transcribe Calls, Steal Secrets, Co. Says

SRIP come calling for copyright infringement?

US Counties Where Women Get Patents Grew Over 30 Years

Settlement Cools Off Conn. Pizza Chain's Trademark Fight

Conn. Judge Shreds Patent Motions Over Local Rule 'Failure'

Medical Gas Supplier Lincare And Ex-CEO Settle Data Dispute

Rocker's Family Demands Trial In Conn. Custom Guitar Suit

Conn. Judge Lets Atty Rep His Own Firm Against Consultant

Metal Band Shreds Royalties Suit Against Guitarist's Widow

Gartner, Hackett Settle Trade Secrets, Employee-Poaching Suit

BREAKING: 1st, 2nd Circ Picks Among Latest Biden Judicial Nominations

Study Website Can't Escape Conn. College's Copyright Claim

Humanism Should Replace Formalism In The Courts

Metal Band Accuses Guitarist's Widow Of Blocking Royalties

Conn. Firm Accuses Copyright Case Foe Of Filing False Docs

No Implied License Exists In Lego Copyright Suit, Judge Rules

Policy Language Copyright Suit Must Continue, Court Told

Second Circuit Copyright Ruling Affirms Independent Contractor Status for Friday the 13th Author

Conn. University Seeks Website's Databases In DMCA Suit

IP Forecast: Pfizer Wants Talks With FBI Kept Under Wraps

Fla. Consultant Says Conn. Firm Can't Sue Over Data Access

Warner Bros. Wins Copyright Ruling Against Sports Charity

Jury Invalidates Card Reader Patents In PayPal Supplier Trial

McCarter & English Brings On IP Partner, Inventor In Conn.

DOJ and Attorneys General Say Google’s Tactics Have ‘Broken’ Ad Tech Competition

Dietary Supplement Cos. Settle 'Jet Fuel' Trademark Suit

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