U.S. and European antitrust agencies are likely to continue to focus on intellectual property, financial services and pharmaceuticals in 2014.
Last summer a jury found that the Apple and Sega Genesis source codes were “substantially similar,” and therefore EA had infringed Antonick’s copyright. However, last week, a California Federal District Court overturned the verdict and granted EA’s motions for judgment as a matter of law and for a new trial.
An Appeals Court ruled that the unauthorized distribution of a recording and transcript of a company’s earnings call was allowed as copyright fair use, opening the door for news organizations and other services to redistribute and sell companies’ earnings call information to customers and the public.
There is little doubt that courts will deem non-privileged, relevant electronically stored information (ESI) on Google Glass and other wearable technologies as a discoverable type of e-data, meaning videos and pictures stored or shared from the device will be discoverable.
Recent Supreme Court decisions have improved the landscape for defendants seeking to fend off mass tort and consumer class actions.
Quentin Tarantino’s claim that the website Gawker has secondary liability for providing its readers a link to the director’s latest screenplay may hinge on a key word in Gawker’s story – “enjoy.”
President Barack Obama said in the State of the Union that he would sign an executive order raising the minimum wage for federal contractors to $10.10 per hour. Can he do that, under the law? And if so, what does it mean for employers?
A company that extended an employment offer to a woman, only to rescind the offer when informed she was pregnant, has been saddled with a lawsuit by the EEOC.
An employer’s evolving reasoning for firing a worker, and fact that the worker was terminated so soon after protected conduct, make for a triable case of improper firing.
AGTC, a clinical stage biotechnology company, appointed Larry Bullock to the position of Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Bullock was […]
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