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Watch Communications Sues Ex-Employees for Alleged Trade Secret Misappropriation

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

Per the Complaint, Jarman, Criblez, and Kolb all signed confidentiality agreements in connection with their Watch employment. While Watch has sent cease and desist letters to each of the co-defendants, they have allegedly not ceased their unlawful activities. 1125(a) for the mark “Watch Communications.”

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What are the intellectual property rights for startups?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Trade Secrets: Trade secrets encompass confidential information critical for a startup’s success; this may include formulas, processes, customer lists, marketing strategies etc. Additionally, copyrights can also extend to website content, graphic designs, logos, videos, and other digital assets.

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ACE Expands to Become a Lean and Mean Anti-Piracy Machine

TorrentFreak

Confidential agreements with domain registrars and registries, for example, help to efficiently take down domain names. Our enforcement actions will be designed to obtain the most significant impact by grouping actions by tactic, time, region, or language.” This has been a key driver of many recent successes. all over the globe.

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No IP, no right to information? CJEU to clarify scope of article 8 Enforcement Directive

The IPKat

After sending a cease and desist letter, TB filed an action before the Polish court on the basis of the national provision implementing article 8(1) Enforcement Directive. One image is depicted below. TB alleged that Castorama Polska sold exact and near identical copies of the images, which had been supplied to them by Knor.

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A 512(f) Plaintiff Wins at Trial! ??–Alper Automotive v. Day to Day Imports

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The Lenz case got a lot of press, but it ended with a confidential settlement. The precedent work is “a set of replacement stickers for the dashboard climate controls for certain GM vehicles”: The Copyright Office registered this design. Defendant had not obtained the Deposit Design from the Copyright Office.

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Analysing Amazon’s Strategic Approach to Tackle Patent Infringement

IIPRD

Williams-Sonoma commented that Amazon’s own product line “Rivet” has infringed patents of furniture designs. [3] 8] Cease and desist letters are also measures to tackle such infringement wherein the seller is demanded to stop the sale of the product and never sell it again. 7] Amazon’s IP Policy is one of such investments.

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September Privacy and Security Roundup: Funding national cybersecurity, violating Safeguards Rule and fighting cyber threats

LexBlog IP

The SEC sanctions included both cease-and-desist orders and financial penalties against investment advisors and broker-dealers for violation of the Safeguards Rule. Transfer Risk Assessment (TRA) : Designed for use alongside the IDTA, the ICO is seeking input on its draft TRA.

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