The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on May 9th, 2024, in the case of Warner Chappell Music, Inc., et al., v. Nealy, et al., that plaintiffs in a copyright ownership dispute can recover damages beyond the three-year statute of...more
5/28/2024
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Warner Chappell Music v Nealy
In October of 2023, a hacker claimed online that they had 23andMe users’ profile information. We know this as a result of 23andMe’s required statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on December 1, 2023. ...more
12/29/2023
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In Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) overturned Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court, holding that a Pennsylvania law comports with the due process clause in requiring...more
7/3/2023
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Important amendments to Pennsylvania’s data breach law – the Breach of Personal Information Notification Act (the “Act”) – will take effect May 3, 2023. This is an important update to Pennsylvania data privacy laws as the...more
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Trade Secret and DTSALaw® | Lawyers | The Protecting American Intellectual Property Act | 2022 | S. 1294-
In furtherance of the U.S. Government’s effort to protect American intellectual property, the...more
A small California company, Balmuccino, LLC, was provided an excellent opportunity to pitch its coffee-flavored lip balm to the Seattle coffee giant Starbucks. Who made the connection? According to the complaint, none other...more
On June 27, 2022, a New York Federal Judge for the Southern District of New York ruled in favor of Warby Parker’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, clearing them of allegedly infringing the trademarks of 1-800 Contacts...more
On August 13, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA), which expanded the Committee on Foreign Investment in the Unites States’ (CFIUS) oversight scope. 31 C.F.R. §...more
If you ask the average person what it means to possess property, their mind goes directly to tangible things – houses, cars, your new Peloton, etc. But, although they are property, Trade Secrets do not fit that mold....more
The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision which was issued on June 3, 2021, reversed an Eleventh Circuit decision and adopted a narrow interpretation of “exceeds unauthorized access” under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986...more