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The SAD Scheme as an Institutional Failure

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The SAD Scheme involves a trademark owner suing dozens/hundreds of defendants using a sealed complaint, getting an ex parte TRO, and then having the online marketplaces freeze the defendants’ accounts and money. [These are my rough-draft talk notes from a recent workshop of trademark law professors.]

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No Non-Compete? No Problem. Texas Court Grants TRO Forcing Former Employees to Stop Working for Competing Business.

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Restrictive covenants and non-compete agreements have been a frequent topic of this blog in recent months, and rightfully so. Non-competes are generally thought to be effective tools to help firms protect trade secrets and competitive advantages. and Colorado. But one Texas court seems to buck this trend.

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Court Preliminarily Enjoins Ohio’s Law Requiring Parental Consent for Children’s Social Media Usage–NetChoice v. Yost

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I previously blogged the TRO. This is a topic where anything could happen.] The State is therefore favoring engagement with certain topics, to the exclusion of others.” The publisher analogy was very much on the Supreme Court justices’ minds in oral argument.

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Monthly Wrap Up (December 15, 2022): Noteworthy Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Posts, Cases and Developments

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And while we’re on the topic of an opinion covering multiple interesting trade secret issues, the U.S. ” For more on this case, check out Dawn Mertineit’s post for Seyfarth’s Trading Secrets Blog describes the TRO which was denied on these grounds. In Syzygy Integration LLC v. Harris , the U.S.

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Monthly Wrap Up (January 9, 2023): Noteworthy Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Posts, Cases and Developments

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Restrictive Covenant Cases and Posts from around the United States: No-recruit agreements, which are restrictive covenants that forbid a former employee from soliciting his/her former colleagues, are a hot topic in many jurisdictions. This shouldn’t come as a surprise but a 10-month delay in seeking a TRO can prove fatal.

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Another Confused Entry in the Social Media Account Ownership Jurisprudence–JLM v. Gutman

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Our first post on this topic, blogging the dispute over the @OMGFacts Twitter account , was over ten years ago!) Finally, in a footnote, he notes that he doesn’t want to speculate about the possibility that the injunction can be modified to provide for “joint management and control” of the Instagram account.