One of the most common forms of business agreements that our clients enter into is the non-disclosure agreement (NDA). Whether to explore a potential partnership between two companies, to consider a proposed merger or...more
As companies increasingly open and support online marketplaces for third parties to sell goods and products, the question has arisen as to what happens when one of those products is defective. Who is liable for any harm the...more
5/7/2021
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Retailers
Court finds that Google's re-use of code from Oracle's Java API constitutes fair use under the Copyright Act -
On April 5, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision in Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.,1 a...more
4/13/2021
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Fair Use ,
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Intellectual Property Litigation ,
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Transformative Use
The following scenario is all too common for those who post content on the web. Imagine you create a website that, unbeknownst to you, includes some form of work (say, a photograph) that is copyrighted to someone else....more
On September 11, 2020, the California Court of Appeals handed down a published decision in Mayron v. Google, one of the earliest cases brought under California's notorious Automatic Renewal Law (ARL), California Business and...more
Companies that offer automatically renewing or continuing services to California consumers may have additional disclosure, consent, and cancellation-related obligations under an amendment to California's automatic renewal law...more