Intellectual Property, Energy & Utilities Law

BLM Issues New Draft Fracking Regulations

by Paul Enockson | BakerHostetler on 5/21/2013

On Thursday, May 16, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued its lasted proposed fracking regulations. The proposed regulations would require wider disclosure of fracking chemicals. The regulations also require water...more

I Thought We Broke Up Years Ago! Why You Should “Throw Out” Trade Secrets As Soon As A Business Relationship Ends

by Valerie Goo | Orrick - Trade Secrets Group on 5/21/2013

The Fifth Circuit’s affirmance last week of a $44.4 million trade secrets award in the Wellogix v. Accenture case is a weighty reminder of the power of circumstantial evidence in trade secrets cases, and the importance of...more

Time For The White House To Step In? Patchwork State Fracking Regulations Will Spawn FOIA And Trade Secrets Lawsuits

by Sally Lee, Siddhartha Venkatasen | Orrick - Trade Secrets Group on 5/15/2013

With a growing number of states demanding disclosure of its fracking recipes, the oil and gas industry is fighting to plug what it views as government-mandated leaks in its trade secrets pipeline....more

DISPUTE RESOLUTION: Intellectual Property: Non-Practicing Entities (Patent Trolls) Target Oil and Gas Companies

by King & Spalding on 5/9/2013

As the number of patent infringement lawsuits brought by Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs) has increased, oil and gas companies have increasingly become targets....more

Weekly eDiscovery Top Story Digest - May 8, 2013

by Rob Robinson on 5/8/2013

Compiled by @ComplexD from online public domain resources, provided for your review/use is this week’s update of key industry news, views, and events highlighting key electronic discovery related stories, developments, and...more

eDiscovery: The View From Singapore

by Pooja S. Nair | Foley & Lardner LLP on 5/7/2013

The Singaporean government has adopted aggressive measures to become a regional center for dispute resolution and arbitration in areas ranging from intellectual property, to oil and gas arbitration....more

Energy Newsletter - May 2013

by King & Spalding on 5/3/2013

In This Issue: - DISPUTE RESOLUTION: - Oil & Gas Litigation: New Decision May Impede Fracking on Federal Land - Intellectual Property: Non-Practicing Entities (Patent Trolls) Target Oil and Gas...more

Fracking and Trade Secrets: An Introduction

by Kenneth Vanko | Clingen Callow & McLean, LLC on 5/3/2013

This is the first in a multi-part installment on the impact of trade secrets law on hydraulic fracturing. Fracking. If you've read the newspaper over the past year or so, fracking suddenly has become a household...more

Contracting Issue: Ownership of IP Created During Performance of Services

by Anne Ligman Turner | Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell &... on 4/24/2013

Contracts for proprietary seismic data acquisition for oil and gas exploration frequently include a clause providing that all intellectual property developed during the seismic contractor's performance of acquisition services...more

Advertising News & Analysis - March 28, 2013

by Edward Boyle, Emilio W. Cividanes, Michael Hartmere, Stuart P. Ingis, Jeffrey D. Knowles, Jacqueline Levasseur Patt, Michael A. Sartori, Ph.D., Janet F. Satterthwaite | Venable LLP on 4/1/2013

In this issue: - FTC Reopens Comment Period on Proposed Changes to EnergyGuide Labels - Venable’s Advertising Practice Named to Chambers USA Shortlist - Protect Your Brand Against New Top-Level Domain...more

Mintz Levin’s London-based IP Practice Group Identifies the UK’s ‘Patent Box’ as a Boon for Clean Technology Clients

by Mintz Levin - Energy & Clean Technology on 3/28/2013

The UK government has proposed a new initiative called the “Patent Box,” designed to foster UK-based innovation and development, and enhance the competitiveness of the UK tax system. And, as an advantageous bonus for clean...more

Quebec Government Announces Forum On Mining Royalties, March 15th, 2013

by Ann Bigué | Dentons on 2/12/2013

Québec Minister of Finance and Economy Nicolas Marceau and Québec Minister of Natural Resources Martine Ouellet announce that a forum on mining royalties will be held on March 15th, 2013 in Montréal, during which the mining...more

Groundbreaking Research Identifies IP Arms Race in Wind

by Philip Totaro on 2/4/2013

Our new research report has catalogued over 27,500 global patent filings related to horizontal-axis, utility-scale wind turbine technology. The report shows only about 1% of issued patents are a high impact on the products...more

California’s Draft Hydraulic Fracturing Regulations Offer Substantial Trade Secret Protection for Operators

by Megan Cesare-Eastman, David Overstreet | K&L Gates LLP on 1/22/2013

California’s Monterey shale, underlying a substantial portion of California, from Los Angeles to San Francisco, is estimated to hold 400 billion barrels of oil, or as much as 64% of the total shale oil reserves in the...more

Patent Watch: Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Inc. v. Maersk Contractors USA, Inc.

by Lawrence M. Sung | BakerHostetler on 11/20/2012

[W]e have rarely held that objective evidence is sufficient to overcome a prima facie case of obviousness [but in certain cases] the objective evidence "establish[es] that an invention appearing to have been obvious in light...more

Focus on Energy - November 2012: The America Invents Act: A Useful Tool For The Energy Industry?

by Robert D. McDonald | Dentons on 11/16/2012

Just over a year ago, President Obama signed the America Invents Act (AIA), signalling one of the most significant revisions to U.S. patent law since 1952. As intellectual property in general, and patents in particular, are...more

Wind Project Financiers and Developers are Underestimating Patent Infringement Risk

by Philip Totaro on 10/30/2012

Totaro & Associates has completed the second phase of a study which began in December 2010 on the patent landscape of the horizontal-axis, utility-scale wind industry. We have now read and classified over 23,100 global...more

Patents on Treatment of Hydraulic Fracturing Water

by Foley & Lardner LLP on 10/15/2012

We continue to monitor patent literature for water and liquid treatment technologies related to hydraulic fracturing (see our October 7, 2012 blog entry, for example). We did not see as many granted patents in 2010 and 2011...more

Recent U.S. Patents Granting for Treatment of Hydraulic Fracturing Waters

by Foley & Lardner LLP on 10/8/2012

We continue to monitor patent literature for water and liquid treatment technologies related to hydraulic fracturing. This technology is especially important for western Pennsylvania, the center of the Marcellus Shale region....more

Hydraulic Fracturing Patent Literature on the Rise (With Nanotech Contributions)!

by Foley & Lardner LLP on 9/10/2012

Patent filings which refer to hydraulic fracturing are on the rise. In fact, the number appears to have almost doubled in the past five years. This is based on a review of the published patent applications at the USPTO web...more

Legislative Update Report No. 2012-11

by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP on 6/15/2012

In This Article: Federal Government; Alberta; British Columbia; Manitoba; New Brunswick; Newfoundland; Northwest Territories; Nova Scotia; Nunavut; Ontario; Prince Edward Island; Québec/Quebec; Saskatchewan; and Yukon....more

Legislative Update Report No. 2012-10 - May 30, 2012

by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP on 5/31/2012

In This Article: Federal Government Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Newfoundland Northwest Territories Nova Scotia Nunavut Ontario Prince...more

Insights - Spring 2012

by Thomas Blank, David Conaway, Thomas Cotter, Regina Joseph, Serena Lipski, Barbara Rivas, Stephen Rothschild, Joseph Simpson, J. Todd Timmerman, Mark Wagoner | Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP on 5/28/2012

In This Issue: JOBS Act: Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act; Fracking: Ohio’s New Oil and Gas Boom; 2012 Estate Planning; American Airlines: Who’s Flying the Plane? Labor Law Update; S Corporations; Blow to Method...more

Innovation Can Eliminate Dependence on the PTC

by Philip Totaro on 5/14/2012

What if technology existed for renewable energy which negated the need for the production tax credit (PTC)? What if this technology existed, but wasn’t being introduced to the market? Through our groundbreaking...more

The Standard in Preventing Trademark Abandonment?

by Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. on 3/26/2012

Like many industries, there has been much brand consolidation. The petroleum industry is a good example. I recall pumping gas in Iowa back in the late seventies — at a Phillips 66 gas station (recall that a couple of years...more

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