LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A debate is growing within the trade secret community about the scope of information that should be protected–specifically, confidential information that does not rise to the level of a trade secret. On October 12, 2023, in Hanneman Family Funeral Home & Crematorium v.

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Kashishipr

JANUARY 27, 2022

In legal terms, it is a contract signed amongst at least two parties looking forward to detailing confidential knowledge, clauses, statements, or any information they wish to restrict from access by third parties. What Should an NDA Incorporate Within its Documentation?

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

As employees of MaddenCo, both Reed and Darby executed a Confidentiality Agreement wherein they agreed to not disclose any confidential information or material of MaddenCo or its subsidiaries. Per Plaintiff’s website, MaddenCo is a privately held family business and has been for over 40 years.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

APRIL 28, 2022

Despite the value trade secrets create for companies that hold them, they are often-overlooked intellectual property assets. But, unlike patents, trade secrets require their owners to take affirmative steps to maintain the intellectual property protection they provide. What Are Trade Secrets? DTSA § 1839.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 17, 2023

The parties filed dueling summary judgments, with ESS seeking traditional summary judgment on the basis Harvey/James’s declaratory judgment was barred as mirroring the contract, and Harvey/James seeking traditional and no evidence summary judgment because ESS had failed to make any showing of damages whatsoever. Background.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 18, 2021

Whether it’s a seasoned designer coming with plug-and-play experience or a fresh face just out of design school, sometimes it just doesn’t work out. Recently, several of my designer clients have had to fire an employee due to the employee’s misconduct. Review the contract. Request return of property.

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azrights

APRIL 22, 2021

Every year the IP industry, led by the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) celebrates the day by raising awareness of the vital role IP rights in innovation and creativity. The value and safety of your intellectual property has become more important than ever before. World IP day is on April 26.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

DECEMBER 2, 2022

According to the Complaint, on April 8, 2021 and December 22, 2021 the Defendants entered into Franchise Agreement, Non-compete Agreement, Confidentiality Agreement, Non-Disclosure and Operating Agreements, along with a Principal Owner’s Guaranty and Assumption of Obligations Agreement with Honest Abe.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 29, 2022

Trade secrets uphold the secrecy of integral information of an enterprise relating to its strategies, programs, designs, patterns, or more. Contract Law- the supply regarding restraint of commerce in Section 27 of the Indian Contract Act makes this clear. Principles Of Equity- within the case of John Richard Brady And Ors.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

further stresses the importance of carefully crafting the terms and conditions in a non-disclosure agreement (“NDA”), and ensuring there is no ambiguity as to when the NDA’s confidentiality protections expire. Emerson Electric Co. The Inclusion of Expiration Dates in NDAs. Ninth Circuit’s Decision in Bladeroom.

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Traverse Legal Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

A trademark can be any word or phrase symbol design combination of things that identifies your goods and services in the marketplace. Your trademark identifies your company as the source of goods and services related to your NFTs and digital assets (the pictures linked to your NFT smart contracts). art, photograph, video, NFT asset).

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IPilogue

JULY 7, 2021

Determining whether an employer or an employee owns the intellectual property of a work produced during the course of employment can be challenging. The employee created or developed the invention with the employer’s confidential information. Photo Credits: Sebastian Herrmann ( Unsplash).

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 27, 2023

In particular, ChatGPT is a type of “language” model designed to respond with a natural language reply when prompted with a text-based question. The “Chat” in ChatGPT refers to this question-and-answer design, where ChatGPT behaves like a ChatBot. ” OpenAI, ChatGPT General FAQ.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 15, 2022

Defendants are five former network salespeople of Belle Cosmetics, who plaintiff alleges, helped design and launch a competing product line for a company called Juvanae LLC. Or if the court has to determine how many users included in the Facebook were not network salespeople before confidentiality of the asserted trade secrets is destroyed.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

It’s complex and messy, almost certainly by design. At least as things stand, site-blocking proposals seem to lack momentum: freedom of expression, the protection of confidentiality of communications, and the prohibition of censorship, carry significant weight in Japan.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In Matthews , the plaintiff, a manufacturer, designer, installer, and servicer of cremation equipment, asserted “claims of trade secret misappropriation [under both federal and state law] and breach of contract against several of its former employees and two of the entities where they are now employed.”

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LexBlog IP

MAY 9, 2022

For many trade-secret litigants and their counsel, the solution lies in simply drafting and agreeing to a protective order governing the treatment of any ‘confidential’ material. Among other things, the APO authorized the sealing—in perpetuity—of any documents the parties marked confidential in discovery.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

. “Customers” here includes both individual consumers and corporate entities who have entered into a contract for data processing services.

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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. By extension, the operator of the domain is a suspected criminal.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Anatomy of an M&A Transaction: How to Issue Spot for Non-Compete, Trade Secrets/Confidential Information, and Intellectual Capital Concerns. A restrictive covenant is a legal term for a clause in an employment contract (or a standalone agreement) that prevents an employee from doing something. View the Recording.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JULY 12, 2021

Per the Complaint, Jarman, Criblez, and Kolb all signed confidentiality agreements in connection with their Watch employment. Watch is suing for false designation of origin and unfair competition under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. 1125(a) for the mark “Watch Communications.”

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2022

Foro anticipated that, at the conclusion of the feasibility study, Vita would provide a design of the deployment wheel that provided sufficient detail for manufacturing the equipment. Vita’s conceptual design was therefore readily ascertainable by proper means, and every feature was visually observable. Code §§ 134A.001

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Trading Secrets

JANUARY 19, 2022

Foro anticipated that, at the conclusion of the feasibility study, Vita would provide a design of the deployment wheel that provided sufficient detail for manufacturing the equipment. Vita’s conceptual design was therefore readily ascertainable by proper means, and every feature was visually observable. Code §§ 134A.001

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 3, 2022

The defendant former employee was provided access to plaintiff’s confidential information during employment, including strategies on how to secure winning bids and information about plaintiff’s existing and potential clients. In the past, plaintiff had won about 75 percent of the bids it submitted for a specific client. See Hebert v.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

The first application for a blockchain patent was submitted by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China with China’s State Intellectual Property Office in November 2017. It can comprise of when a trademark was applied for first, registered or used in trade, when was a design/patent first licensed or assigned and so on.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

The first application for a blockchain patent was submitted by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China with China’s State Intellectual Property Office in November 2017. It can comprise of when a trademark was applied for first, registered or used in trade, when was a design/patent first licensed or assigned and so on.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

The first application for a blockchain patent was submitted by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China with China’s State Intellectual Property Office in November 2017. It can comprise of when a trademark was applied for first, registered or used in trade, when was a design/patent first licensed or assigned and so on.

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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. If a post-employment covenant merely seeks to eliminate competition and is not designed to protect a legitimate business interest, it will not be enforced.

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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. 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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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

As 2023 commences, it’s time for companies to review and take stock of their intellectual property assets. This applies to companies that have never taken serious steps to protect intellectual property and companies that understand the value of intellectual property and take active steps to secure and protect those assets. .

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Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The Protecting American Intellectual Property Act signed on January 5, 2023, is designed to help American businesses from trade secret theft by foreign actors. The NLRB and Restrictive Covenants: Trends in Employment Confidentiality View the Recording – CLE credit for this recording expires on July 19, 2024.

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Trading Secrets

MARCH 22, 2022

But for famed wedding dress designer, Hayley Paige Gutman, she certainly is ruing the Second Circuit’s recent decision to revive its 1999 holding of Ticor Title Ins. Included within the JLM contract were certain restrictive covenants, including a non-competition agreement, as well as various intellectual property assignment provisions.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

As 2023 commences, it’s time for companies to review and take stock of their intellectual property assets. This applies to companies that have never taken serious steps to protect intellectual property and companies that understand the value of intellectual property and take active steps to secure and protect those assets.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The Protecting American Intellectual Property Act signed on January 5, 2023, is designed to help American businesses from trade secret theft by foreign actors. The NLRB and Restrictive Covenants: Trends in Employment Confidentiality View the Recording – CLE credit for this recording expires on July 19, 2024.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The biosimilar pathway was designed to increase competition for biologics and reduce healthcare costs. Note that FDA still has not designated any biosimilar as interchangeable to its reference product. As noted above, companies are already taking advantage of these new designations. Introduction. Federal Legislation.

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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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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

While the Order does not itself resolve the intellectual property issues involving AI, it sets the stage for future guidance and executive actions by (i) instructing the Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to publish guidance addressing inventorship and the use of AI in the inventive process, (ii) directing the U.S.

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