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Join the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for World Intellectual Property Day!

U.S. Department of Commerce

To kick things off, on April 25, we will hold a professional development webinar about the importance of World IP Day; how to bring engaging invention education to students, educators, and parents; and how to make IP and the innovation ecosystem more accessible to all. All are welcome!

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Pitfalls Related to NCAA’s New Policy on Name, Image and Likeness

The IP Law Blog

Many companies, intentionally or unintentionally, have language in their contracts that would severely prejudice the athletes in the future. Put another way, the company is only paying the athlete for the express term of the contract, but it will be able to use the athlete’s NIL forever. How is that fair?

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

LexBlog IP

In particular, defendants argued that because Belle Cosmetics made the information available to thousands of network salespeople on Facebook, “the world’s largest social media website,” that information was by definition non-confidential, and could not be a trade secret.

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Pitfalls Related to NCAA’s New Policy on Name, Image and Likeness

LexBlog IP

Many companies, intentionally or unintentionally, have language in their contracts that would severely prejudice the athletes in the future. Put another way, the company is only paying the athlete for the express term of the contract, but it will be able to use the athlete’s NIL forever. How is that fair? It’s not.

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Data Portability Rights versus IP – Part II

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Other limitations aside, this novel right would only apply to services that enable “on-demand administration and broad remote access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable computing resources” (cloud services), so that many social media platforms are excluded from its scope. Then should we consider them as contract-based rights?

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