Intellectual Property
How copyrights are taxed – capital gains or ordinary income – has a colorful history, involving half-done paintings of FDR and a talking mule.
Ellen Chen Yeh admitted downloading Texas Instruments proprietary information before leaving the company for a China-based semiconductor manufacturer, but was recently acquitted on all counts. What companies can take away about the trickiness of proving intent beyond a reasonable doubt.
Protecting domain names under the expanded gTLD landscape may be costly and, in the end, ineffective. But Fenwick & West LLP attorneys say that companies taking the longer view can count on mobile eclipsing web domains in the not-so-distant future anyway.
U.S. firms are making ever more expansive claims to their employees’ intellectual work – in some cases demanding employees pre-assign […]
The term “troll” has never been defined as it relates to patent litigation, yet it is routinely employed by courts […]
Since former President George W. Bush opened an exhibit of artwork featuring world leaders he knew during his tenure in […]
In what’s described as an effort to bring “transparency to the monetization market” and what some will no doubt call […]
The effort to curb non-practicing entities takes place within a statutory framework that grants inventors the right to transfer a […]
Weeks of negotiation over a bipartisan patent bill meant to curb the negative impacts of “patent assertion firms,” or trolls, […]
The process described in the patent, Justice Breyer seemed to suggest, was more or less the same one his mother used when she rode herd on his checkbook.
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