LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Employee Termination & Data Repatriation in the Remote Work Environment. At the workshop, legal scholars, economists, and policy experts reviewed the current state of the law and economic literature on non-compete clauses in contracts between employers and employees. Complete pre-termination forensic searches.

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Intepat

JUNE 19, 2023

Commercialization Through Licensing A licensing contract is one where the owner of an intellectual property grants permission to use it for some form of regular payment generally called royalty. The commencement, duration and termination of the agreement must be clearly laid down. The ownership is not transferred.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 13, 2022

Specifically, they alleged that the ISP failed to terminate repeat infringers. For example, they don’t want Bright House to argue that terminating someone’s Internet access is a human rights violation. In addition, they point out that the DMCA specifically mentions Internet terminations as an option to curb piracy.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

APRIL 30, 2022

Judge Alsup dismisses most of Berenson’s claims, but the contract breach and promissory estoppel claims survive Twitter’s motion to dismiss. Still, I prefer it when judges rely on Section 230(c)(1) to take the “good faith” topic off the table entirely. ” Contract Breach/Promissory Estoppel.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

This examined the problem of authors’ remuneration: authors’ contracts tend to result in disproportionately low revenues relative to the returns of investors and intermediaries. By contrast, the 35-year termination right in the U.S Importantly, the parties may not contract out of this right to readjustment.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Breach of Contract. ” The court says that’s not an affirmative promise to approve all such apps; plus, the contract reserved Apple’s right to decide in its sole discretion. .” That is not the kind of injury antitrust laws are intended to protect. Implications. So the legal and policy stakes are high here.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Although the number of published cases reporting factual information about emoji was in the single digits until just recently, and German courts have yet to develop a standard method of dealing with them, the topic is growing rapidly even though courts have some trepidation about it. Hesitation to display emoji in opinions.

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 3, 2022

This blog post summarizes some of the significant decisions grouped by the hot topics below. The court found that there was no contract establishing confidentiality, despite arguments that company policies protected the information from disclosure. in a trade secret and contract suit. In Oakwood Lab’ys LLC v. Thanoo , 999 F.3d

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In its second decision between the parties on this topic, the court has dismissed the appeal for lack of Article III standing in Apple Inc. The court rejected this because Apple neither showed that the validity of any single patent would affect those payments, nor that there was any contract dispute resolved by validity of the patents.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 17, 2022

New for 2022, attendees will have the option to attend breakout sessions focusing on niche corporate matters and contracts, family businesses, startups and how to make informed real estate decisions. Topics and speakers. Breakout Session #1A, Anatomy of a Contract Dispute , presented by Scott Beatty, Esq. and Mark Nieds, Esq.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

delivered by a Michigan federal jury for the breach of its contract with Versata Software and the misappropriation of Versata’s trade secrets. Versata had been a vendor of Ford’s since the 1990’s until 2015 when Ford terminated the relationship. million for Ford’s breach of contract. The jury awarded $22.39

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

This year, we have divided these developments into three categories: a) Top 10 IP Judgments/Orders (Topicality/Impact). Top 10 Judgments/Orders [Topicality/Impact]. However, later the defendant served a termination notice against which the plaintiff filed this suit. c) Top 10 Other IP Developments. H Lundbeck A/S v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

.” The mere operation of a website with later follow-up for price quotes, contract execution, and installation insufficiently establishes qualification.” Facebook qualifies for Section 230 in account termination case. Related topics * Patel v. ” [This is obviously wrong.] * Cono v. Facebook, 2021 Cal.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The opinion tackles one of the hottest topics in Internet Law: do UGC services engage in editorial functions protected by the First Amendment? The panel says that there’s no First Amendment implications of requiring Internet services to provide terminated users with access to their data for 60 days after termination.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 30, 2021

Topical Highlight. Sun Pharma v. Cipla: Madras HC Rejects COVID as an Excuse for Passing Off. In this guest post , Kedar Ganesh Dhargalkar analyses the recent case of Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. Cipla Ltd. , Thus, the Court held that the mandatory injunction granted by the Single Judge was inequitable.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

As in previous years, we have divided these developments into five categories: a) Top 10 IP Judgements/Orders (Topicality/Impact) b) Top 10 IP Judgements/Orders (Jurisprudence/Legal Lucidity) c) Top 10 IP Legislative and Policy Related Developments d) Other IP Developments; and e) Other Notable Developments. RDB and Co.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 15, 2022

And while we’re on the topic of an opinion covering multiple interesting trade secret issues, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania enforced the noncompete but reduced its duration from 5 years to 2 years because that time period sufficiently protected the plaintiff’s government contract business.

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Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Employers should implement a holistic strategy for protecting trade secrets at every stage of the employment relationship, from onboarding to pre-litigation enforcement efforts post-termination, with coordination between HR, Legal, IT, and other stakeholders within the company. its training procedures, and its off-boarding policies.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Employers should implement a holistic strategy for protecting trade secrets at every stage of the employment relationship, from onboarding to pre-litigation enforcement efforts post-termination, with coordination between HR, Legal, IT, and other stakeholders within the company. its training procedures, and its off-boarding policies.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2022

The letter discusses the BPCIA and the Hatch-Waxman Act frameworks (for small molecule drugs) and sets forth several topics for USPTO’s consideration and further discussion: engagement between FDA and USPTO to increase efficiencies, possible misuse of the patent system (e.g., 17-cv-04180 E.D. 10,464,992) and a method of treatment patent (U.S.

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