Intellectual Property, Privacy, Civil Procedure

BLG Monthly Update March 2013

by Neil Guthrie on 3/18/2013

Fake judgments, fashion law, lots on contracts and privilege in the BLG Monthly Update for March 2013!...more

Cybersecurity: The Next Big Wave in Securities Litigation?

by King & Spalding on 2/24/2013

News broke this week about significant cybersecurity breaches at many U.S. corporations that raises the possibility of a new wave of SEC enforcement actions, class actions, and derivative lawsuits. A front page New York Times...more

Recent Cases Address Employer Efforts to Protect Confidential Information

by Cherie Blackburn | Nexsen Pruet, PLLC on 2/15/2013

Originally published in SC Bar's Employment and Labor Law Newsletter: Winter 2013 on February 15, 2013 In recent months, both the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over federal cases in North and...more

Employment Law Update: Recent Cases Address Employer Efforts to Protect Confidential Information

by Nexsen Pruet, PLLC on 11/5/2012

In recent months, both the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over federal cases in North and South Carolina, and the South Carolina Supreme Court have addressed the issue of protecting trade secrets and...more

The Year of Downloading Dangerously: Federal court gives adult film copyright “trolls” the Third Degree

by Foley Hoag LLP - Trademark, Copyright &... on 11/5/2012

About this time last year, we reported on a case which bore perhaps the least catchy name in the history of the Massachusetts Federal District Court: Liberty Media Holdings, LLC v. Swarm Sharing Hash File...more

IP/Entertainment Law Weekly Case Update for Motion Picture Studios and Television Networks -- September 19, 2012

by Loeb & Loeb LLP on 9/19/2012

Table of Contents: - DiTocco v. Riordan - Second Circuit affirms district court’s dismissal of plaintiffs’ copyright claims, holding that defendants’ Percy Jackson book series was not substantially similar to...more

Advertising Law -- June 27, 2012

by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 6/28/2012

In This Issue: Imitation a Precursor to Litigation, Not a Form of Flattery for Band; Will the 9th Circuit Reverse Approval for Kellogg’s Mini-Wheats Settlement?; New Jersey Alleges App Developer Violated COPPA; Sonic’s...more

Advertising Law -- May 10, 2012

by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 5/14/2012

In This Issue: *Class Certified in Abercrombie & Fitch Gift Card Case *Prize Promotion Business Is No “Prize” *Reebok Firms Up EasyTone Marketing Claims After FTC Settlement *Chipotle Substantiates Claims in “Back...more

5 Things Attorneys Need to Know About Social Media

by Dinsmore & Shohl LLP on 5/9/2012

1. Social Media Impacts Every Facet of Your Client’s Business and Your Business Social media isn't something that can be pigeonholed into one segment or area of yours or your client's business. Instead, it impacts every...more

Protecting Trade Secrets: Intersection of Florida’s Public Records Laws and Regulatory Document Demands under the Florida...

by Carlton Fields on 5/7/2012

Florida has expansive public records disclosure laws, which emanate from the Florida Constitution. Art. I, § 24, FLA. CONST., Ch. 119, Fla. Stat. It is doctrinal in Florida that virtually any document delivered to a state...more

Advertising Law -- April 20, 2012

by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 4/23/2012

In This Issue: Do Not Track Is a Hot Issue With Technology Companies, Including Yahoo; NAD Issues Decision in Priceline Dispute; Class Action Hopes to Feast on Frito-Lay and Pepsi; The Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s...more

BLG Monthly Update, April 2012

by Neil Guthrie on 4/16/2012

Selling family heirlooms, fighting over a dead body and some neat contracts cases -- all this and more in the BLG Monthly Update for April 2012!...more

BLG Monthly Update for February 2012

by Neil Guthrie on 2/14/2012

Flying body parts, kitty litter and some neat contracts cases: all this and more in the BLG Monthly Update for February 2012...more

Socially Aware: The Social Media Law Update -- Vol. 2, Issue 6 -- November 2011

by Morrison & Foerster LLP on 11/30/2011

In this issue of Socially Aware, our Burton Award-winning guide to the law and business of social media, we discuss employment law considerations in “friending” a colleague; how an ex-employee’s social media use can run afoul...more

The Right to Speak Anonymous Online ... and its Limits

by Aaron & Sanders, PLLC on 10/15/2011

Using one of the most notorious of the mass bit-torrent lawsuits, West Coast Productions v. Does, this article first explores the policy considerations behind the right to speak anonymous online and the right to expose the...more

Court Rejects Google Books Settlement – Quick Guide to the Decision

by Fenwick & West LLP on 8/23/2011

Twelve million scanned books and six years after Google was sued for digitizing entire libraries of books without authorization, in late March 2011 Federal District Judge Denny Chin rejected a controversial settlement of the...more

Advertising Law - August 10, 2011

by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 8/22/2011

In This Issue: Brits Ban Makeup Ads with Digital Technology; Groupon Faces Scrutiny Over Privacy, Gift Certificates; Court: No Private Class Actions Under TCPA; CARU Recommends That Web Site Better Protect Children’s...more

European IP Bulletin - Issue 80, May 2011

by McDermott Will & Emery on 6/6/2011

PATENTS: Pilot Drilling Control Ltd v Smith International Inc: UKIPO Refuses Request for Confidentiality In Pilot Drilling Control Ltd v Smith International Inc BL O/046/11, the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO)...more

Last Month at the Federal Circuit - April 2011

by Finnegan on 4/25/2011

In this issue: False Marking Claims Must Be Pled with Particularity; PTO Confirmation of Validity in a Related Reexamination Proceeding, Even If Later Revoked, Can Provide Evidence of a Reasonable Basis for Patentee’s...more

How Do You Sue an Unknown Hacker Who Steals Data through the Company Web Site?

by Nick Akerman on 2/7/2011

In Liberty Media Holdings, LLC. v. Does 1-59, 2011 WL 292128 *3 (S.D.Cal. Jan. 25, 2011) unknown individuals hacked into Liberty Media Holdings’ web servers and obtained “certain motion pictures” that it...more

Litigation Wire - January 2011

by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 1/13/2011

In This Issue: Opening the Floodgates: The Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Provisions’ Impact on Corporate America . . . Page 1, 8-9 Recent Cases Demonstrate Risks of Sharing Online Users’ Data with Third Parties. . . Page...more

China Intellectual Property - Quarterly News May 2010

by Morrison & Foerster LLP on 5/5/2010

In This Issue: *2 Confidentiality Review for Foreign Patent Filing By Harris Gao *4 More Good News for Chinese Patent Defendants Seeking to Transfer Their Cases Out of the Eastern District of Texas By Michael Vella,...more

Home

Legal News

Find a Lawyer

Browse Subjects

Subscribe

Pro Services

For Reporters

Intellectual Property › Privacy › Civil Procedure