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Trade Secret Rights May be Lost Because of A Failure to Review a Competitor’s Prior Art Patent Applications

A recent decision from a California federal district court should make patent prosecutors and their clients more alert when looking at recent prior art references: they may refer to patent applications filed by competitors...more

Corporate Transparency Act: To File or Not to File?

The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) requires most small companies doing business in the United States to disclose information about their beneficial owners to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), by January 1,...more

Is the Corporate Transparency Act Unconstitutional? Does it Matter?

On March 1, 2024, a federal district court ruled in National Small Business United v. Yellen that the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), about which we wrote earlier, is unconstitutional. The U.S. Treasury Department has...more

Fresh is Best and Stale Will Fail: The PTAB Explains Its Logic in Refusing to Institute an IPR

The Patent Act allows anyone to try to initiate an inter partes review (IPR), which is a proceeding before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) challenging one or more claims of a patent. Any such challenge may be based...more

March 2019 IP Update: Europe’s One-Stop Shop for Privacy Regulation: For EU Companies Only?

One key aspect of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is its aim of streamlining the regulatory process by providing “one-stop shopping”: the opportunity to deal with a single regulator with respect to all data...more

January 2019 IP Update - Digital Resale: Where New Technology Stumbles Over Old Law

A purchaser of an article of commerce expects to be able to freely sell it regardless of any intellectual property rights that it may embody. The resale of digital files, however, runs into a special barrier that ReDigi...more

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