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SEC Continues to Police Confidentiality Provisions for Theoretical Whistleblower Suppression

LexBlog IP

Specifically, the rule provides that “[n]o person may take any action to impede an individual from communicating directly with the Commission staff about a possible securities law violation, including enforcing, or threatening to enforce, a confidentiality agreement. with respect to such communications.”

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Ye Sues Instagram User For Leaking Unreleased Music

IP Law 360

Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, filed suit on Wednesday in California state court against the owner behind social media accounts accused of leaking confidential music without permission, alleging contract breach and trade secret misappropriation.

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Dragons' Den IP Blog - Series 21 Episode 2

Dragons' Den

As well as their brand, their intellectual property (IP) will lie in the special recipes they’ve formulated for their organic skin products. To ensure that trade secrets are protected, the information needs to be kept confidential. Derry’s glamping paradise was a hit on social media. These are their trade secrets.

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Dragons' Den IP Blog - Series 21 Episode 5

Dragons' Den

Peter Jones acknowledged the couple's meticulous approach to intellectual property, lauding their investment in patents and other protective measures, commenting "You have done all of the right things, getting all your patents and doing all your IP". We turned down the Tangle Teezer brush and lived to regret it!

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The Growing Threat Posed by Phishing and Brand Impersonation

Corsearch

Phishing is defined by the Merriam-Webster online dictionary as “ the practice of tricking Internet users (as through the use of deceptive email messages or websites) into revealing personal or confidential information which can then be used illicitly”. [1] URLs purporting to be shortened URLs were shared on the mentioned channels.[4]

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Friday Fantasies

The IPKat

New year, new IP opportunities and events The new year has just begun but there are already several news items, unfortunately including some sad ones, to report. Have a look below. Katnews We have two major news items we wish to share with our readers, one concerning the Team and the other a(nother) welcome accolade for The IPKat.

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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.