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Ingram Industries Inc. has promoted Eleanor McDonald to Executive Vice President and General Counsel and Secretary, effective July 1. She […]
Jill Abramson, the former executive editor of The New York Times, will teach at Harvard University this fall. Abramson will […]
Target Corp. has hired Brad Maiorino, an IT expert from General Motors Co., to beef up its data security after […]
Effective today, Ali Rowghani has resigned from his position as the Chief Operating Officer of Twitter, Inc. Rowghani will continue […]
A study in Sweden has found that, in a sample of 1.3 million men, the chief executives tended to be […]
His cause is privacy – or at least the right to have a private life on social media without suffering […]
An update on a controversy that goes back to 2012, when climate scientist Michael Mann, creator of the so-called hockey […]
The Hershey Company filed a lawsuit against a Washington marijuana dispensary alleging its “Reefer’s Peanut Butter Cups” violated the company’s copyright. That suit may be the tip of the iceberg for the marijuana industry, as increased scrutiny is bound to come with its skyrocketing value, which some estimates put at as much as $10 billion within five years.
In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court found that a defendant cannot be liable for inducing infringement unless the induced party directly infringed the patent, meaning there is no induced infringement of a method patent unless every step of the method can be attributed to a single actor.
The “Trade Protection Not Troll Protection Act,” introduced by U.S. Congressmen Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) and Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.), aims to reduce the ability of patent trolls to initiate ITC investigations.
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