LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Key topics will include: Applicable rules for employees’ inventions in major R&D jurisdictions Best practices at local and global levels How to deal with inventions developed by contractors and founders Managing local patent office’s filing requirements For additional information and to register, click here.

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 9, 2023

The Nevada legislature passed new legislation recently that essentially bans all non-compete clauses in physician contracts while severely limiting the instances in which a hospital or psychiatric hospital may employ a physician as an employee, rather than as a contractor.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 9, 2023

The Nevada legislature passed new legislation recently that essentially bans all non-compete clauses in physician contracts while severely limiting the instances in which a hospital or psychiatric hospital may employ a physician as an employee, rather than as a contractor.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 12, 2023

We are also planning a webinar on legal issues with Generative AI, generating employee guidance on the use of AI and dealing with contractors that produce content for you. A date and details for the webinar are being finalized.

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Erik K Pelton

JULY 14, 2022

Many of my clients have contractors or vendors or virtual assistants who assist them with writing blog posts, creating newsletters, doing social media posting and work. The best, of course, is to be all original, but it is many times useful to get content of pictures or videos or animations about a particular topic.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 2, 2023

equips federal contractors with guidance regarding approaches for increasing the trustworthiness of AI systems and fostering the development, deployment, and utilization of AI systems over time. This Guidance covers some important topics. Some companies require contractors to disclose if they have used GAI in the past.

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Nelligan Law

AUGUST 8, 2022

The Copyright Act and The Industrial Design Act both touch on the topic of employment and IP. Some different employment relationships include a consultant, an in/dependent contractor, and an employee. The courts will examine the relationship itself not only the title given to the worker by the employer. Comstock Canada et al.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 22, 2023

Failing to provide appropriate training for employees and contractors. Today’s topics of concern included a proposed FTC order that would prohibit a company from monetizing the data of users under age 18 as well as the regulation, or current lack thereof, of artificial intelligence.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

. “Riben was not HuffPost’s employee and was not paid by HuffPost for the content that she submitted to HuffPost…[the] blogger terms and conditions were agreed to by the parties and expressly stated that content contributors were independent contractors and could not hold themselves out as an agent or representative of HuffPost.”

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

As briefly covered in our September Privacy and Security Roundup, bipartisan legislation currently before Congress would introduce mandatory reporting requirements for federal agencies, contractors, and critical infrastructure owners and operations in the event of cyber intrusions within 24 hours of discovery.

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43(B)log

APRIL 19, 2021

From the site: 2020-2021 TOPIC Students are invited to submit papers addressing a legal or public policy question relating to emerging and sustained challenges to legal and political structures created by online platforms, digital services, and other emerging technologies.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

As my Content Moderation Remedies paper showed, this topic is way more complicated than a binary remove/leave up dichotomy. In other words, I don’t think Zauderer –a recent darling of the pro-censorship crowd–is the right test (I will have more to say on this topic). The type of media (video vs. text, etc.).

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 22, 2021

” This is the context in which the FTC and DOJ hosted the Workshop, which included a broad range of topics and perspectives—from worker misclassification to the potential effects of mergers and acquisitions on wages. Takeaways from the Workshop. The Workshop was heavy on theory and light on concrete proposals. .”

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 3, 2022

This blog post summarizes some of the significant decisions grouped by the hot topics below. Contractors Inc. Appian alleged that Pegasystems retained an employee of a government contractor to access its software, helping it to improve its own products and better train its sales force. In Oakwood Lab’ys LLC v. Thanoo , 999 F.3d

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