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Mandelbaum Barrett PC

Question and Answer with a Corporate Law Attorney: FAQs Answered

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Starting and running a business can be an exciting yet overwhelming journey, and the legal side of things often adds complexity. Many entrepreneurs and business owners find themselves with pressing questions about how to...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Rise of Trade Secret Litigation

Legal regimes are shifting, including in the intellectual property world as businesses increasingly seek the protection of trade secrets rather than patents to secure their confidential information. When the Defend Trade...more

International Lawyers Network

Technovations & Labor Practices: Little Known IP Law For Developing Countries

Some years back, a young Kenyan graduate, working as an intern for a public state corporation, developed an innovative solution that earned his employer a global innovation award. However, his application for intellectual...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Artificial Intelligence in the Modern Workplace: Safeguarding Source Code Generated with AI Assistance

Generally, an employer owns all rights in software code created by its employee in the scope of their employment. As outlined in the last edition of this series, this general rule typically applies to independent contractors...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Your Employee Handbook May be Deficient for Capturing Patent Rights

Is your employee handbook sufficient to capture patent rights in your employee’s inventions? The Federal Circuit case of Omni Medsci v. Apple illustrates one reason why it does not. It is common practice to include, in an...more

Foley Hoag LLP

Seventh Circuit Emphasizes the Necessity of a Written Invention Assignment Agreement

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In July 2022, the Seventh Circuit issued an opinion making it clear that employers must put in place written invention assignment agreements if they want to ensure ownership of employee inventions...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Beware of Different Limitations Periods in Employee Trade Secrets Disputes!

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Most lawyers know, at least generally, that IP infringement and misappropriation actions are subject to various statutes of limitations. Patent actions need to be brought within six years, copyright actions within three, and...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

A Fine Line Between Co-Owner and Infringer

Can an employee’s unpatentable “idea”, conceived under a duty to assign intellectual property, give rise to co-ownership in an invention conceived after employment terminates? That was the question on appeal in Bio-Rad...more

McDermott Will & Emery

International News: Healthcare - Spotlight on the Industry - May 2021

Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment in the Global Healthcare Industry - Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) seek out investments that are resilient, conducive to their aims and objectives, and reasonably free from market...more

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