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Guest Post: Judgment Preservation Insurance and the Federal Circuit

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An exotic insurance product has recently taken the litigation world by storm. 1] Now, it’s hard to avoid; a brief Internet search will turn up hundreds of hits and dozens of explainer articles by insurance brokers, law firms, and litigation funders extolling the benefits and pitching such policies to appellants.

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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

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Moritz College of Law The copyright – contract tension Stewart Brand famously said that information wants to be free. The flexibility of contracts makes them a prime candidate for restricting uses that copyright law leaves unprohibited. That still leaves a rather broad space for contract law to effectively limit the use of information.

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NDA: An Effective Way to Protect Confidential Information

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A settlement agreement was reached where Elation could inspect the software developed by Shi and prevent the use of any trade secrets or confidential information. The jury also found Shi breached the settlement agreement. ” In the partially published case, Elation Sys. Elation appealed the order granting the JNOV. 2d 630, 632.)

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Courts Still Have No Clue How to Determine Who Owns Social Media Accounts–JLM v. Gutman

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If anything, the Second Circuit musings give the parties more to fight over, rather than providing enough clarity to estimate the Coase Theorem entitlement and facilitate a settlement. I’d love to see an accounting of the time and money the parties have spent on this litigation.

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Understanding the FTC Penalty Box

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Before doing that, the statute requires the agency to send the penalty complaint (and settlement, if one exists) to the Department of Justice, and the DOJ then has 45 days to either file the case itself or return it to the FTC for prosecution. Well, as my contracts professor used to say, “Always read to the end of the statute.”

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2H 2022 Quick Links, Part 1 (Marketing, Privacy)

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NY Times : Meta Agrees to Alter Ad Technology in Settlement With U.S. “ Privacy. * In re Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation, 2022 WL 17869218 (N.D. The settlement agreement. The post 2H 2022 Quick Links, Part 1 (Marketing, Privacy) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Marketing. *

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Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA) Webinar – “Hot Topics in Advertising Law in North America”

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Teami ($15 million settlement, all but $1 million suspended), where there were other bad things like fighting cancer claims and also nondisclosure by influencers like Cardi B. Kelly Harris: In Canada, Competition Bureau brought enforcement action against FB for misleading privacy representations even though it’s a free service.