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Multi-Level Marketing Company Sufficiently Alleges Reasonable Efforts Despite Posting Trade Secret Materials to Thousands

LexBlog IP

.” Defendants first argued that the network of salespeople and customer lists on Facebook were owned by them, as they have ownership interests in their Facebook profiles, and that because each defendant’s Facebook friends could see the rest of their friend network, these lists were not confidential. The court disagreed.

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PingĀ® October 2021 Changes Coming to Non-Compete Agreements in Illinois

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The law goes into effect January 1, 2022 and amends the Freedom to Work Act (the Act), which restricts the use of non-compete agreements for low wage workers. The law does not apply to contracts covering confidential and proprietary information, protection of trade secrets, or inventions assignment agreements. Mandatory Review.

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Copyright, Free Speech Clash in Dispute Over Cameron Boyceā€™s Final Film

Copyright Lately

Cameron Boyce ( Runt ) Wagging Tails claims that the threatened disclosures would violate Coakley’s confidentiality agreement. The New York Lawsuit The first volley in the partiesā€™ legal battle came in May 2022, when Coakley filed a pro se lawsuit in New York state court against the Bergers and Virtuoso.

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Legal Implications of IPR Protection ā€˜In The Cloudā€™: an Indian Analysis

IIPRD

2022) [2] , the High Court of Delhi held that because the respondent chose to put its service in Singapore, the Plaintiff cannot be rendered helpless against actual infringers. 7] Risk of unauthorised disclosure, copying, or use of confidential or proprietary information, trade secrets, or copyrighted material stored in the cloud increases.

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The Legal Boundary of Data Scraping in Light of Van Buren v. United States

JIPEL Copyright Blog

Some circuits have held that a violation of policies and contracts such as terms of use and confidentiality agreements is enough to establish liability under the CFAA, while others tend to interpret it narrowly. The interpretation of this clause has been disputed for a long time.

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ChatGPT and Intellectual Property (IP) related Topics

LexBlog IP

ChatGPT was trained in early 2022, so it is aware of data, news, and information up to that time. Said another way, it is “unaware” of news or events post-early 2022 because such news and events were not available at the time when ChatGPT was created. early 2022). In August 2022, the U.S. See Thaler v.