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Ping® – Arts, Entertainment, Media & Advertising Law News – “Five Rs” To Remember

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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. Reconcile and pay. reportAd: {.

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

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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. The court disagreed.

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Trade Secrets In Relation To IPR

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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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DOJ Announces It Will Not Charge CFAA Violations for Good-Faith Security Research

Trading Secrets

The new policy highlights the DOJ’s goal to promote privacy and cybersecurity by upholding the legal rights of individuals and network owners to ensure confidentiality and availability of information stored in their information systems. the defendant’s conduct consisted of good-faith security research.

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Signed, Sealed, Delivered? Fifth Circuit Finds Sealing of Sensitive Information Requires Far More Than a Protective Order

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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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A Cautionary Tale on Including an Expiration Date in NDAs

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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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One Bad Apple Won’t Spoil the Rest of the Bunch’s Ability to Fairly Compete in Matthews International Corp. v. Lombardi

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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.”