LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For that reason, and because the broader non-compete landscape has shifted, employers might consider revisiting their restrictive covenants practices to mitigate risk. The Region appears to be building their argument that post-employment restrictive covenants somehow implicate Section 7 rights.

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Trading Secrets

JANUARY 5, 2023

Earlier today, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published a proposed rule which would ban all non-compete agreements between employers and “workers” (broadly defined to include employees, independent contractors, interns, and others). If adopted, the proposed rule will bar both prospective and existing non-compete agreements.

Intellectual Property 98

Intellectual Property Business Publishing Editing 98

Trading Secrets

JANUARY 5, 2023

Earlier today, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published a proposed rule which would ban all non-compete agreements between employers and “workers” (broadly defined to include employees, independent contractors, interns, and others). If adopted, the proposed rule will bar both prospective and existing non-compete agreements.

Intellectual Property 98

Intellectual Property Business Publishing Editing 98

Trading Secrets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For that reason, and because the broader non-compete landscape has shifted, employers might consider revisiting their restrictive covenants practices to mitigate risk. The Region appears to be building their argument that post-employment restrictive covenants somehow implicate Section 7 rights.

Confidentiality 52

Confidentiality Litigation Law Business 52

Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 2, 2023

Federal Government Initiatives Recently announced federal government initiatives seek to leverage collective authorities to monitor the development and use of AI and automated systems. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a joint statement on “Enforcement Efforts Against Discrimination and Bias in Automated Systems.”

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U.S. Department of Commerce

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Observational studies enable DOC decision-makers to understand the effectiveness of specific policy approaches intended to drive common outcomes, such as local job growth, business revenue, business formation, employment trends, educational attainment, and ecosystem habitat restoration.

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Business Designs Design Government 112

Olartemoure Blog

MARCH 16, 2022

It is to be mentioned that many products fall in different regulatory categories than those whereby they were registered in the country of origin, sometimes requiring additional technical documentation for its sanitary registration (Marketing Authorization-MA). Sentence 2004-00883 of June 7, 2018. María Alejandra Pava Trademarks Director.

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 5, 2023

The General Counsel’s Memo My colleagues previously posted about the General Counsel’s memo here. While the General Counsel seems intent on creating penumbra Section 7 rights that remain after employment ends, that position exists only in theory at this point. Fortunately, Seyfarth fits the bill on both fronts. [1] 29 U.S.C. §

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Litigation Law 59

The IPKat

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

She used it as a background picture for her website without naming the plaintiff as the author. 13 German Copyright Act , the author of a work has the right to be identified as such. 13 German Copyright Act , the author of a work has the right to be identified as such. The first and second instance courts dismissed the claim.

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Moral Rights Licensing Personality Rights Contracts 85

Nelligan Law

AUGUST 8, 2022

It may be a common belief that what you create is your own work and intellectual property (IP), but if you have a day job there is the possibility that your employer could lay claim to the intellectual property flowing from your outside endeavors. The Copyright Act and The Industrial Design Act both touch on the topic of employment and IP.

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Intellectual Property Invention Ownership Contracts 75

Trading Secrets

JANUARY 19, 2023

The rule would provide that noncompete clauses are an unfair method of competition and as a result, the rule would ban employers from entering noncompete clauses with their employees and workers (defined by the FTC to include independent contractors and others).

Ownership 59

Ownership Contracts Business Litigation 59

IPilogue

MARCH 27, 2023

for works created after January 1, 1978, copyright protection lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years. This resulted in the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act in 1998 which extended copyright protection to 70 years after the death of the author. As a general rule in the U.S.,

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This review is kindly provided by Thorsten Lauterbach, Teaching Excellence Fellow at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, passionate about IP Law since he studied it as an undergraduate in the mid-1990s at Abertay Dundee. Chapter 11 by William Page, Jocelyn Bosse and Adrian Aronson-Storrier struck a particular chord with me.

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Intellectual Property Law Intellectual Property Law Non-Fungible Tokens 113

LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Terminating an employment relationship carries certain risks for any new or rapidly growing business. Related Services Trademarks | Cannabis About the Authors: Mark Jotanovic is a member in Dickinson Wright’s Troy office. He can be reached at 248-631-2050 or MJotanovic@dickinsonwright.com. His bio can be viewed here.

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Intellectual Property Branding Brands Branding 52

Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The Courier Mail quickly added an editor’s note to the article , which acknowledged that four paragraphs were not the author’s work and that their code of conduct states that “plagiarism is theft”. Instead, Gleeson is allowed to take “personal time”, indicating that this was Gleeson’s choice and not a mandate from his employer.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 8, 2022

Effective January 1, 2023, Illinois joins at least 18 other states to have a Title Act authorizing Registered Interior Designers to seal any bound set or loose sheets of technical submissions. In addition, 21 other states, including Michigan, have no title laws or permitting authority for interior designers at all.

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Designs Design Law Contracts 52

LexBlog IP

JANUARY 19, 2023

The rule would provide that noncompete clauses are an unfair method of competition and as a result, the rule would ban employers from entering noncompete clauses with their employees and workers (defined by the FTC to include independent contractors and others).

Ownership 52

Ownership Contracts Business Litigation 52

IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

[Image Sources : Shutterstock] According to the Employees’ Pension Scheme, 1995 and the Employees’ Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952, 8.33% of the 12% contribution provided by employers under the EPF Act is redirected to the pension fund. 6500 per month to Rs. 15000 per month.

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IPilogue

MAY 18, 2022

Causing just as much controversy is whether AI can be an author. CIPO has reached a conclusion after they recently issued copyright to a piece of art with an AI tool listed as a co-author (along with a human co-author). The legal debate of who or what gets to be an author ( or an inventor ) will continue.

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IPilogue

MARCH 7, 2022

Ann went on of course to develop the work into the standard book she co-authored on the regulation of intellectual property in universities. I remember Ann’s great learning and curiosity, and her modesty in her accomplishments.

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IPilogue

JULY 28, 2021

Since Roderique was unaware of the advertisement and was not doing work for The Bay, she tweeted the following: “ Hey @hudsonsbay, it would have been a good idea for you to get my permission to use my face and associated activism to solicit donations ‘to support employment and empowerment of IBPOC’, no? ”. Screenshot from Twitter.

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Nelligan Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

Obtaining short-term disability benefits also requires employees to go through their insurance company as opposed to dealing with their employer directly. self-isolate due to COVID-19 (under direction from an employer, medical practitioner, or other authority). await results of a COVID-19 test while staying home.

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IP Intelligence

JULY 17, 2023

The investigation will also look into the preventive and remedial measures OpenAI employs to handle the disclosure of personal information and the creation of false, misleading or disparaging statements about individuals. The FTC is asking the same questions of OpenAI that enterprise users of ChatGPT should be considering.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 5, 2023

On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a ban on non-compete agreements between an employer and its workers as an unfair method of competition. However, this proposal has raised concerns about how it may affect businesses and their ability to protect trade secrets.

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Confidentiality Intellectual Property Business Patent Prosecution 52

Patently-O

APRIL 26, 2024

The Supreme Court’s Decision In its decision, the Supreme Court reversed in a unanimous opinion authored by Chief Justice Taney. And this must also be the case in compositions of matter, where any of the ingredients mentioned in the specification do not always possess exactly the same properties in the same degree. ” Id.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

A 91 ) which introduced an exclusive public lending right for authors and producers of audiovisual works, as well as for the broadcasting organisations. 1: The authors of audiovisual works The authors of audiovisual works enjoy an exclusive public lending right according to Article 3(1)(e) Law 2121/1993.

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Copyright Law Law Music Publishing 117

SpicyIP

JUNE 14, 2023

At issue was the question as to whether copyright in the screenplay for the movie Nayak, is owned by the author of the screenplay, Satyajit Ray, or the producer of the film who commissioned the screenplay, R.D. 17 is that the author of the copyrighted work is the first owner of the copyright in the work. Amongst the 5 provisos to S.

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Publishing Ownership Licensing Copyright 98

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 18, 2022

” The common law also does not impose “a legal duty on the part of employers to warn their employees of psychological or emotional harm.” ” The common law also does not impose “a legal duty on the part of employers to warn their employees of psychological or emotional harm.” ” Nor does OSHA.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 15, 2024

In order to guarantee employment safety and support for employees during maternity, paternity, and family-related conditions, two historic pieces of legislation—the Maternity Benefit Act of 1961 in India and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in the USA— were passed.

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Law Government Publishing Business 83

LexBlog IP

JANUARY 5, 2023

Earlier today, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published a proposed rule which would ban all non-compete agreements between employers and “workers” (broadly defined to include employees, independent contractors, interns, and others).

Intellectual Property 52

Intellectual Property Business Publishing Editing 52

SpicyIP

APRIL 24, 2024

The Degree granting authority for this programme is National Law University Delhi. About the P rogramme The Joint Masters/LL.M. Applications are open till 3 rd June, 2024 and the interested candidates can apply via the official website: [link].

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Velocity of Content

JANUARY 6, 2022

Many years ago, when I was learning about “command languages” used in online search tools such as DIALOG and BRS, I recall asking about certain strange (to me) groups of characters that made no natural-language sense to me, the first time I saw them. They appeared in only one of the databases we searched.

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Copyright 105

IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 9, 2022

The protection of the trade secrets (the specific and confidential information about the production of the company and give the business a competitive advantage in the industry) can be legalized under major sub pars including: Patents – the protection comes with time strain. WhatsApp.

Ownership 73

Ownership Copyright Trademark Contracts 73

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

This is an employer/ex-employee dispute over a Facebook page. In March 2020, plaintiffs began to have concerns about defendants’ loyalties to the business. Breach of Fiduciary Duty : A breach of fiduciary duty is limited in the employment context to higher level employees. It had approximately 4,000 followers.

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Social Media Contracts Ownership Business 79

IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

According to section 203(a) of the United States Copyright Law (Title 17), authors and their statutory heirs can terminate copyright assignments and licenses made after 1978 as early as 35 years after they were first created. But what about what Jay Livingston wanted?

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Copyright Music Copyright Law Television 104

IPilogue

JUNE 1, 2022

AI-based social scoring for general purposes by public authorities. Enables platform workers to access relevant information about algorithmic decisions. Employers (?25 explanation about how the personal information used was obtained. Proposal for a Directive on Improving Working Conditions in Platform Work (2021).

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Trading Secrets

JANUARY 24, 2024

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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