Privacy, Labor & Employment Law, Intellectual Property

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

Preparing an Online Social Media Policy: The Top Ten Legal Considerations for Your Nonprofit

by Ronald Taylor, Jeffrey S. Tenenbaum, Armand Zottola | Venable LLP on 3/12/2013

Legal issues - Same as before but new platforms – Entity use of social media – Pathways to Legal Liability or Risk: Defamation, Intellectual Property, Trade Secret, Advertising, Privacy, and...more

McAfee & Taft tIP Sheet - March 2013

by Rachel Blue, Jessica John Bowman, Zach Oubre | McAfee & Taft on 3/5/2013

In This Issue: - 3 Monitoring employees’ use of company trademarks in social media - 5 Keys to ensuring the secrecy of trade secrets - 6 FTC amends Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule - Excerpt from...more

News From Our Own Vermont Backyard: Proposed Legislation On Password Privacy And Ownership Of Inventions

by Matthew Borick | Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC on 2/25/2013

Last month the Vermont Legislature kicked off its 2013-2014 Legislative Session, and already a couple of bills have our attention here at the IP Stone....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

Socially Aware: The Social Media Law Update -- Volume 4, Issue 1 -- January/February 2013

by Amanda Bakale, Tiffany Cheung, Jacob Michael Kaufman, J. Alexander Lawrence, Christine E. Lyon, Julie O'Neill, Matthew R Galeotti, Jesse Soslow | Morrison Foerster - Social Media on 2/1/2013

In this issue of Socially Aware, our Burton Award-winning guide to the law and business of social media, we explore the challenges that arise when employers and employees battle over work-related social media accounts; we...more

Social Media Policy: You're Probably Doing It Wrong

by Christopher Hopkins on 1/24/2013

Social Media Policies: You're Probably Doing It Wrong. Test these 9 steps. Special thanks to Palm Beach Bar Bulletin for publishing in their Feb 2013 issue....more

Jurisdiction for an International Computer Fraud Lawsuit?

by Shawn Tuma on 1/12/2013

The proper jurisdiction for suing someone for engaging in computer fraud from a foreign country, directed at a company in the United States, is the place where the wrongfully accessed computer server is located if the...more

Around the Virtual World - December 17, 2012

by Pillsbury Social Media, Entertainment &... on 12/17/2012

A weekly wrap up of interesting news about virtual worlds, virtual goods and other social media. In This Issue: - Union Facebook Page Not Picket Line Extension: NLRB Judge - Parody New York Times Twitter...more

Preventing Unfair Competition In The Absence Of A Non-compete Agreement

by Robert Freedman - Partner at Tharpe & Howell,... on 12/10/2012

You’ve read the tile of this article. There it is, up above. Let me repeat: Preventing Unfair Competition in the Absence Of A Noncompete Agreement What I really want you to focus on is the last part. The part that reads:...more

Fifth Circuit Finds Company Not Liable for Alleged Violations of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and Electronic Communications...

by Shawn Tuma on 11/27/2012

Do alleged violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Stored Communications Act, and Wiretap Act committed by a company’s Regional Manager make the company liable? No, as long as the Regional Manager was not acting on...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

Privacy: “Get Over It”?

by Field Law on 10/25/2012

Not so fast. In 1999, the CEO of Sun Microsystems famously said: ”You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.” The Supreme Court of Canada apparently disagrees. The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) released their decision in...more

Bring-Your-Own Device Policies Present Special Challenges for the Health Care Sector

by Mintz Levin - Health Law on 10/2/2012

The use of employee-owned devices in the business setting – often referred to as “bring-your-own-device” or “BYOD” – presents data security challenges for all businesses....more

Take 5: Views You Can Use - August 2012

by Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. on 8/23/2012

Along with a most unexpected first-place run by the Chicago White Sox, summer 2012 brought a number of significant developments in the area of noncompetes and trade secrets. Here are five pieces of advice based on these...more

Advertising Law -- June 21, 2012

by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 6/22/2012

In This Issue: Status Update: Facebook Seeks to Add Children; NLRB Speaks Again on Social Media; The Happiest – and Healthiest? – Place on Earth; NYC Considering Ban on Large, Sugary Drinks; Microsoft’s IE 10 Will...more

Mobile Problems? The Bring Your Own Device to Work Movement

by Dinsmore & Shohl LLP on 6/21/2012

As I settle in at a table in my favorite cafe near my home, large coffee in hand, I check my work emails from my personal smart phone as I pull out my personal laptop and dial into my company servers providing access to all...more

"Bring Your Own Device" Brings its Own Challenges

by Morrison & Foerster LLP on 6/7/2012

The consumerisation of IT is the growing trend for information technology to emerge first in the consumer market and then drive change in the industry generally. One of the most dramatic impacts of this shift is a rise in...more

The “Bring Your Own Device” To Work Movement: Engineering Practical Employment and Labor Law Compliance Solutions - May 2012

by Littler on 5/11/2012

Introduction Two different, but interrelated, phenomena have been occurring over the last decade that are radically reshaping the work environment at many companies. The first is commonly referred to as the...more