LexBlog IP

APRIL 12, 2023

Copyright Office (USCO) launched a new AI Initiative to examine the copyright law and policy issues raised by artificial intelligence (AI), including the scope of copyright in works generated using AI tools and using copyrighted materials in AI training. ” It is also a response to requests from Congress and the public.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2023

Google’s document retention policy required individual employees to identify internal chat conversations responsive to a litigation hold. Google trains its employees on document retention. A federal court in California ruled in favor of sanctions against Google last week for failing to preserve records.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

While noting that Otsuka is not producing any COVID-related vaccines or therapies, she agreed that COVID has affected the business questions their employees bring and the services the information center provides. A Tripling in Demand for Information Services Training. A Reputation of Trust, Prior to a Global Pandemic .

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 15, 2023

Mandatory Antitrust Training that Addresses the Risks of AI. Many previously-effective compliance programs have not incorporated the topic of AI or its concomitant risks. Companies are now expected to have policies that specifically address employees’ work-related use of personal devices and messaging apps.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Over the course of the late 1980s and early 1990s, unethical business activities and dubious corporate policies plagued the global corporate sector, giving rise to the topic of corporate governance. In addition to offering introduction courses, NISM could provide independent directors with training or review sessions.

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Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Employee Termination & Data Repatriation in the Remote Work Environment. At the workshop, legal scholars, economists, and policy experts reviewed the current state of the law and economic literature on non-compete clauses in contracts between employers and employees. View the Recording. Complete pre-termination forensic searches.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Employee Termination & Data Repatriation in the Remote Work Environment. At the workshop, legal scholars, economists, and policy experts reviewed the current state of the law and economic literature on non-compete clauses in contracts between employers and employees. View the Recording. Complete pre-termination forensic searches.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 2, 2023

Many employees are experimenting with AI in connection with their work. As a result, many companies are developing corporate policies on employee use of AI. Broader Issues with Generative AI Some other issues companies face with employee use of AI relate to IP and open source. This Guidance covers some important topics.

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Nelligan Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Most law firms have a long way to go in providing a safe and inclusive space for employees. The Law Society has created a range of resources to assist firms in making meaningful changes – from hiring, training, and education within firms, to identifying and understanding the structural barriers that can help or hinder these efforts.

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 3, 2022

This blog post summarizes some of the significant decisions grouped by the hot topics below. In the case, a pharmaceutical company sued a former product development employee and his new employer in the District of New Jersey for misappropriation of trade secrets in violation of the DTSA. In Oakwood Lab’ys LLC v. Thanoo , 999 F.3d

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Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The breadth of our discussions encompassed a spectrum of critical topics: FTC Proposes Rule Banning Use of Non-Competes. Seyfarth partners Kate Perrelli, Michael Wexler, Robert Milligan, Dan Hart, and Dawn Mertineit discussed the new Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) proposed rule banning the use of non-competes with employees and workers.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 5, 2024

The existing process the client used to track competitive intelligence involved a single employee checking these various websites for relevant content, including press releases, investor news, company newsletters, etc. The employee then summarized the content manually.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The breadth of our discussions encompassed a spectrum of critical topics: FTC Proposes Rule Banning Use of Non-Competes. The proposed rule impacts not just typical employee non-compete agreements but also non-compete agreements that are made in connection with the sale of business entities.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 27, 2023

The “GPT” in ChatGPT refers to the type of AI model that ChatGPT is, i.e., a G enerative P re-trained T ransformer. The “ P ” in ChatGPT stands for “Pre-trained” meaning that ChatGPT is an already-trained, ready-to-use model. How was ChatGPT trained? early 2022).

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 9, 2023

This is the second in a series of posts on the topic of Data Management. The following is a list of signs that your organization may need a formal data governance effort: You maintain more than one copy of the same data because employees from different teams do not necessarily discuss with each other what they are doing.

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43(B)log

APRIL 12, 2024

Ashford called its salespeople “admissions counselors” and trained them to build trust and rapport with prospective students. Defendants’ compliance department used scorecards to assess calls between employees and prospective students; the AG’s expert found relevant deceptive statements in over 20% of scorecards.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Like the Goodyear case that I recently wrote about , this dispute highlights the fact that trade secret cases don’t just involve departing employees. Speaking of cases involving employees, Patently O ‘s Dennis Crouch did an informal survey of 10 recently filed federal trade secret cases. In Matthews Int’l Corp.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

While the Directive excludes authors of computer programs from the application of the principle, all other authors, including employee authors, appear to be covered. Some advocates have proposed that the data compilers enable artists and photographers to opt out of inclusion in training data.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 21, 2023

She moves to the city that is close to the training facility with coach Shyam after being chosen for the qualifying squad. [8] She joins a renowned team and begins training under a trainer Mark, who wields significant power and influence within the organization. They turn around and leave while clearly upset and in tears.

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Trading Secrets

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Employee Mobility & Its Effects on Trade Secrets and Non-Competes. This has spilled over into civil class action lawsuits brought by employees alleging that the conspiracy impacted their wages and careers or that they have been otherwise harmed by these so-called no-poach agreements. Anatomy of a Restrictive Covenant.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 24, 2023

In this month’s edition, he looks into topics including the Plant Variety Registry, different tales of/ takes on personality rights, and multiple leaks of key documents and their contribution in law-making. In the present order the court restrained its finding against the fellow director and the company incorporated by them.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Reddit is a popular website that allows users to post content in smaller, searchable forums devoted to certain topics. Reddit users can create and moderate each subreddit thread and in turn, Reddit employees can remove moderators, content or other posts that violate its policies. Reddit, Inc. The plaintiffs in Jane Does v.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Employee Mobility & Its Effects on Trade Secrets and Non-Competes. The court reasoned that indirect use can be inferred from the timing of a defendant employee’s hire, deception in the employee’s departure, the corporate defendant’s lack of experience in the industry, low financial investment, and quick success.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Reddit is a popular website that allows users to post content in smaller, searchable forums devoted to certain topics. Reddit users can create and moderate each subreddit thread and in turn, Reddit employees can remove moderators, content or other posts that violate its policies. Reddit, Inc. The plaintiffs in Jane Does v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

412 ] After thirty years, employees at both AWF and Condé Nast had either forgotten or, more likely, had never even known that the Warhol portraits were based on a specific photo, that the photo had been licensed, or that it was limited to a one-time use. (It Barton Beebe’s empirical work on this topic. In the first, Sony Corp.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The Workshop is the latest step in the federal government’s increasing interest in potentially regulating contracts between employers and employees (an area typically governed by state common law) under the auspices of promoting competition in the labor market. How We Got Here. Takeaways from the Workshop.

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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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