IPilogue

MARCH 8, 2023

The Ongoing Litigation Risk In 2022, Canadian courts continued to see litigation resulting from privacy breaches, with class actions being certified on the basis of a broad range of claims, including systemic negligence and breach of contract. marking documents as “Privileged and Confidential”).

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The hacking allegations come from Mr. May, who played Destiny 2 and agreed to its Limited Software License Agreement (LSLA) in the fall of 2019. This didn’t stop Bungie from accessing Mr. May’s computer on several occasions between 2019 and 2021, as evidence gathered through discovery suggests. Hacking Allegations.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In 2019, GuardaLey – the most infamous BitTorrent ‘copyright-trolling’ operation in the world – said it had entered into a joint venture with American Films, Inc. . According to an announcement Monday, Rightscorp’s CEO encouraged a company called American Films, Inc. American Films, Inc. What Does it Do?

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 31, 2024

Other aspects of privacy include the right to one’s own body, individual autonomy, protection from state surveillance, informational self-determination, dignity, confidentiality, and the freedom to move, think, and dissent. Conversations on the telephone are often of an intimate and confidential character.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JULY 12, 2021

In February 2019, Watch claims Jarman approached the President and Chief Executive Officer, Ken Williams (“Williams”) with an opportunity to assist in a project in Tennessee. According to the Complaint, Mosby had been the Chief Operating Officer of a company acquired by Watch in 2019. 1125(a) for the mark “Watch Communications.”

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GDB Firm Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Madden ignored this and held that a purchaser of deeply discounted credit card debt was not permitted to enforce the contract interest rate that the national bank lender was permitted to charge. You must refer to the OCC and "Docket ID OCC-2019-0027" in your comment letter.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2022

the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”), and a breach of contract claim as to the mutual Nondisclosure and Restricted Use Agreement (the “NDA”) executed by the parties in July 2014. CV 17-0491, 2019 WL 2410933, at *11 (E.D. June 7, 2019)). Code §§ 134A.001 see Cajun Services Unlimited, LLC v. Benton Energy Serv.

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Trading Secrets

JANUARY 19, 2022

the Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”), and a breach of contract claim as to the mutual Nondisclosure and Restricted Use Agreement (the “NDA”) executed by the parties in July 2014. CV 17-0491, 2019 WL 2410933, at *11 (E.D. June 7, 2019)). Code §§ 134A.001 see Cajun Services Unlimited, LLC v. Benton Energy Serv.

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Trading Secrets

JANUARY 13, 2022

In November 2019, the trial court granted Fox’s motion as to its unfair competition claim, and thereafter, enjoined Netflix from interfering with Fox’s fixed-term employment agreements. Both parties filed motions for summary judgment/adjudication. The Appeal. See Ixchel Pharma, LLC v. Biogen, Inc. ,

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It would also require that employers take affirmative steps to rescind existing non-compete clauses and explicitly inform workers that the contracts are no longer effective. The most recent legislative action was the introduction of HB 681 of 2019, the Healthcare Practitioner Non-Compete Agreement Act, which has not been passed.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 13, 2022

In November 2019, the trial court granted Fox’s motion as to its unfair competition claim, and thereafter, enjoined Netflix from interfering with Fox’s fixed-term employment agreements. Both parties filed motions for summary judgment/adjudication. ” See Ixchel Pharma, LLC v. Biogen, Inc. , ”) (citations omitted).

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

2019) opinion concerning data scraping was vacated and remanded this June by the Supreme Court to be reconsidered in light of the recently decided case Van Buren v. It can’t be interpreted more broadly to include other limitations by contracts or policies. The controversial HiQ v. LinkedIn , 938 F.3d 3d 985 (9th Cir. 1648 (2021).

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

. “You must ensure that you do not place digital advertisements on websites providing unauthorized access to copyrighted content and must take all reasonable steps to ensure that third parties with whom you contract do similar,” the regulator warns. may have been considered a legitimate target.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Yet 2020 saw a slowdown in biosimilar activity with the lowest number of annual biosimilar approvals since 2016 and fewer product launches than 2019—as well as a decrease in district court litigation and post-grant proceedings. In 2019, FDA approved a record-breaking ten biosimilars. December 6, 2019. November 15, 2019.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Lenz case got a lot of press, but it ended with a confidential settlement. 2019 WL 13109708 (S.D. As a double-insult, 512(f) preempts related state law claims over abusive takedown notices, so it actually leaves victims worse off than if 512(f) didn’t exist by clearing out the field. Tierra Caliente Music Group SA v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Then he reversed course on remand and ruled in favor of LinkedIn on its breach of contract claims. On January 23rd, Judge Chen once again dropped a bombshell for the web-scraping world (and those looking to stop it) by ruling in favor of Bright Data and against Meta on its breach of contract claims at summary judgment. Bright Data Ltd.

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Trading Secrets

MARCH 22, 2022

Included within the JLM contract were certain restrictive covenants, including a non-competition agreement, as well as various intellectual property assignment provisions. While the contract was originally to run through 2016, the parties extended the agreement through August 1, 2022. JLM Couture, Inc. Gutman , 24 F.4th 4th at 792. [2].

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Trading Secrets

APRIL 5, 2022

2019) (“[T]he Trade Secrets Act superseded the common law tort of misappropriation [of trade secrets].”). The court similarly observed that “[i]f Defendants are right about the GTSA’s preemptive force, the misappropriation of non-trade-secret information is no longer actionable in Georgia (outside of contract law). Of Georgia v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

Introductory remarks The Greek legislator transposed Directive (EU) 2019/790 (CDSMD) with considerable delay, enacting L. Taking into account the enforceability of court orders, one might reasonably wonder whether the result could be a court-mandated duty to contract (compare, in relation to Art. 43bis I.aut.,

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The Court interpreted the clause on ownership of work made during a contract of service (Section 17(c)) to not apply in situations where there is a contract between equals. The Court limited the scope of Section 17(c) to apply to contracts where the relationship between the parties is akin to that of an apprenticeship.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2022

December 6, 2019. November 15, 2019. November 4, 2019. November 15, 2019. July 23, 2019. July 23, 2019. June 13, 2019. July 18, 2019. June 27, 2019. December 31, 2019. April 25, 2019. March 11, 2019. January 18, 2019. November 11, 2019. January 3, 2019.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As noted above, one of the five sitting ALJs tasked with reviewing those cases, ALJ Cameron Elliot, has ordered third-party litigation funding orders to be produced and indicated, in at least one case, that such funding should be treated as non-confidential. [31] 604C (2021); Nonrecourse Civil Litigation Advance Contracts, Ohio Rev.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

Confidential nature of the EUIPO’s findings. The report on the determination of FRAND terms and conditions includes: (i) a confidential assessment of the FRAND determination; (ii) a confidential summary of the main issues of disagreement; and (iii) a methodology and an assessment of the FRAND determination.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

In 2019, actor Cameron Boyce , star of Disney franchises Jesse and Descendants , died tragically following a sudden epileptic seizure. Cameron Boyce ( Runt ) Wagging Tails claims that the threatened disclosures would violate Coakley’s confidentiality agreement.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 13, 2021

However, the bill also died in committee in late 2019. Senators Chris Murphy and Todd Young resurrected The Workforce Mobility Act in late 2019. ” It remains to be seen what rules the FTC will issue, and what agreements (non-competes, non-solicitation or confidentiality agreements) will be affected.

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