On May 11, 2016, President Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), which creates a new federal cause of action for misappropriation of trade secrets. Although the DTSA provides several new changes to trade secret...more
On April 27, 2016, Congress passed the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), which President Obama promises to sign soon. This proposed legislation, which is designed to be an expansion of the Economic Espionage Act of 1996, would...more
5/5/2016
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Confidentiality Agreements ,
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Economic Espionage Act ,
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Injunctions ,
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Misappropriation ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Private Right of Action ,
Trade Secrets ,
Uniform Trade Secrets Acts ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies
Patent owners and businesses should be prepared for yet another change to patent infringement litigation. In April 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted Congress’s amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which went...more
12/23/2015
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Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ,
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FRCP 84 ,
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Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, also known as ICANN, is currently in a multi-year process of rolling out hundreds of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). ICANN’s rationale for the expansion:...more
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3/5/2013
“Three can keep a secret if two are dead.” — Benjamin Franklin.
In the shrinking world of social media, privacy seems to be an all but forgotten concept. But in the world of business, trade secrets are critical to...more
In This Issue:
- 1 Common sense trade secret protection
- 4 Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation to impact electronic marketing and communications
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Business on the Internet recently got a lot more interesting.
On Friday, August 10, 2012, Google announced a major change to its search algorithms that would alter the ranking of websites based on the number of copyright...more
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