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New U.S. Laws Criminalize Theft of Quantitative Trading and Investment Models and Other Trade Secrets and Dramatically Increase...

Introduction - The U.S. Congress recently passed two laws that raise the stakes dramatically for employees of financial services firms and anyone else who misappropriates trade secrets, including source code and other...more

Angel Investors: Secondary Liability for DCI Copyright Infringement

Digital content intermediaries (DCIs) such as YouTube, Facebook, Ebay and others handle vast quantities of digital content uploaded by users, raising questions about their potential secondary liability for copyright...more

Launching Your Business or Product? Pick a Good Trademark.

Last year, Citigroup Inc., owner of numerous federally and internationally registered trademarks containing the CITI prefix lost its bid to prevent the registration of the trademark CAPITAL CITY BANK owned by the relatively...more

Financial Services Patent Holding Company Update - February 2011

In This Issue: False Patent Marking Lawsuits Filed Against Financial Services Companies; Patent Holding Company Eon-Net to Pay $631,135 in Sanctions and Fees for “Indicia of Extortion”; and, USPTO Rejects RealTime Data...more