LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

” However, the better answer is it depends on some consideration about ownership and cost. ” Why Don’t I Need A Business to File a Trademark? This is a convenient way to separate your personal and business assets and liabilities. Clients often ask me whether they need an LLC to trademark.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 1, 2021

For the first time, Illinois will have statutory requirements for mandatory review periods, definitions of adequate consideration and legitimate business interests, as well as specific salary minimums for employees subject to restrictive covenants. Contract lawyers know that to be enforceable a promise must be supported by consideration.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2022

I refer to “data snarfers” as businesses that aggregate (via scraping or APIs) lots of sensitive online personal information to offer analytics, business/competitive intelligence, and similar services. Law students, this is one of many reasons why your 1L Contracts class is so important. ” Oof.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

As alleged in the complaint, plaintiffs operated a bakery known as “La Baguette,” and hired defendants to manage aspects of the business. Defendants also managed the social media presence of the “La Baguette” business, which primarily consisted of a Facebook page. It had approximately 4,000 followers.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 2, 2022

It also sidesteps the dispute regarding whether hiQ is still in business. The court remains skeptical of LinkedIn’s privacy-based arguments: LinkedIn has no protected property interest in the data contributed by its users, as the users retain ownership over their profiles. Eric’s Comments.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 15, 2022

Plaintiff, Tori Belle Cosmetics LLC (“Belle Cosmetics”), sells its cosmetics and false eyelashes through a network of salespeople, allowing each salesperson to earn a portion of any revenue generated by any salespeople they recruit to join their sales network, i.e., a multi-level marketing business.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 23, 2023

All claim to be the best, but some are more privacy-conscious than others. The VPN review business is flourishing as well. When it comes to privacy and anonymity, an outsider can’t offer any guarantees. Many of these questions relate to privacy and security, and the various companies answer them here in their own words.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

It then uses an algorithm to yield “people analytics” based on the information and sells them to business clients for profit. 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.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

The International Business Machine (IBM) company was granted almost 4000 patents in 2017 for AI related advancements which included blockchains. It is basically a distributed database that can achieve independent verification of the ownership chain of any or every cryptocurrency (amount) as each node stores its own copy of the blockchain.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

The International Business Machine (IBM) company was granted almost 4000 patents in 2017 for AI related advancements which included blockchains. It is basically a distributed database that can achieve independent verification of the ownership chain of any or every cryptocurrency (amount) as each node stores its own copy of the blockchain.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

The International Business Machine (IBM) company was granted almost 4000 patents in 2017 for AI related advancements which included blockchains. It is basically a distributed database that can achieve independent verification of the ownership chain of any or every cryptocurrency (amount) as each node stores its own copy of the blockchain.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

According to the complaint, these separate entities are just one big data-sharing family, leveraging their combined resources in non-standard ways such as Microsoft sharing hardware and cloud infrastructure resources in exchange for an ownership interest in OpenAI. Complaint at 31. But not so, says the court.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2023

RT: [So one factor that might be silent here is outsourcing/contracting: b/c the military no longer makes its own stuff and seems institutionally incapable of imagining that it might, it is dependent on outside contractors, and if they won’t do it, too bad. Each can veto an entire business. Canada, Bill C-11 passed.

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SpicyIP

JULY 19, 2021

Pandemic Push: Royalty-Based Business Model for Better Downstream Revenue for Musicians. NFTs (Non-fungible tokens), which act as a certificate of ownership for whatever the creator puts up for sale, allow artists to set their preferred terms of contract while making sales. Other Posts.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 6, 2023

The FTC press release announcing the proposed rule states that noncompete clauses—which apply to about one in five American workers—suppress wages, hamper innovation, block entrepreneurs from starting new businesses and reduce American workers’ earnings between $250 billion and $296 billion per year. [1] ” [4].

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Particularly, it was argued that against the backdrop of the pandemic, the medicines produced were in high demand due to their characteristics of relieving some of the major symptoms exhibited by the patients who had contracted the Covid-19 virus. The Karnataka and Orissa High Courts too have dealt with similar matters.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2022

For background, check out my post on the district court’s ruling here: “ Social Media Ownership Disputes Part II: Bridal Wear Company Takes Back Control of Instagram Account from Ex-Employee ”. It did not specifically address ownership of social media accounts. Gutman signed an employment agreement with JLM. This was erroneous.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 3, 2023

3) reasonable measures to safeguard privacy interests. (4) Cultural and economic factors (change in what the business does over time, including startup drift and embrace then rejection of crypto). pounds/week); 86% make positive subjective claims; 78% make business opportunity claims. Source concealment/distortion.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 13, 2022

Change in titles su ggests a shift in focus – from protection of privacy to regulation of data as an asset. Given that the underlying algorithms may have multiple uses, the company that owns the algorithms may not want to give up ownership. It is its misappropriation through improper use that is the cause of concern.

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Copyright Lately

MARCH 6, 2023

The company also asserts copyright ownership in two “director’s statements” written by Coakley about the alleged on-set bullying, as well as in Coakley’s planned derivative project about the making of Runt. In one notable case, Balsley v. LFP , Inc. ,

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