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Journey Through “Octobers” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present) 

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Xiaomi highlighting how the common practice of courts granting confidentiality in commercial litigation problematizes transparency, judicial accountability, and the citizens’ right to be informed of court processes and reasoning under Article 19(1)(a). Corruption in IP Offices, Anything New?

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Custodians Of Financial Data And Its Protection In Indian Framework : Banking Sector

IP and Legal Filings

Some of these provisions are: Sections 44 of the SBI Act of 1955, Section 13 of the SBI (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act of 1980, and Section 29 of the Credit Information Companies Act of 2005 describe the public financial institutions. iv] But no clear provision on penalty has been subscribed. IMPORTANT PRECEDENTS.

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Modern monarchy and the media: Duchess of Sussex wins historic privacy case against the British tabloids

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The Duchess of Sussex) was recently granted summary judgment in a privacy claim against Associated Newspapers Limited, over the publication of extracts from a hand-written letter to her father (see HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2021] EWHC 273 (Ch) ). Background. The Duke of Sussex, a.k.a.

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Georgia jury says "no trade secrets" in Boeing wing-component dispute

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Those who needed to know then had to sign a separate confidentiality agreement. There is a 5-year statute of limitations under the Georgia Trade Secrets Act and had Alcoa been concerned about UAC they should have brought their claims in 2005.

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The Copyright Quandary regarding the Delhi High Court Rules on Live-streaming of Court Proceedings

SpicyIP

Supreme Court of India , which dealt with issues of confidentiality, privacy (prior consent) of litigants and witnesses, restrictions on access to proceedings of trials and the preservation of the larger public interest due to the sensitivity of the proceedings. These are based on the principles set forth in Swapnil Tripathi v.

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[Guest post] China Passes Its First Comprehensive Data Protection Law

The IPKat

Upon that, The IPKat is delighted to host the following guest post co-authored by Anja Geller (PhD candidate at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Junior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition) and Zihao Li (PhD candidate at CREATe, University of Glasgow, on privacy and data protection in the Chinese Civil Code).

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Preserving Trade Secrets at District Court Hearings and Trials

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

The Eastern District of Texas General Order “anticipates that HSDs may also include documents that, in the judgment of the filing party, are or contain HSI that is substantially likely to adversely affect,” inter alia , “nonpublic intellectual property, trade secrets, or highly confidential commercial information.” United Indus., 1835(a).