Intellectual Property

Foreign Hacking Is Bleeding IP from U.S. Companies

A report from the National Counterintelligence and Security Center says that foreign actors are stealing intellectual property from U.S. companies […]

Chicago Co Tells Hawaiian Restaurants To Quit Using “Aloha”

Lawyers for a Chicago-based restaurant chain called Aloha Poke Co. have sent cease-and-desist letters to several restaurants, including some in […]

3D-Printed Guns Get A Shot In The Arm

Under the terms of the settlement, the plaintiff is now free to post the instructions and the government will pay $40,000 of his legal expenses…

Patent

Cult Leader Games Patent Office

A cult leader with deep enough pockets to doggedly pursue patents for mundane variations on established technology has been using […]

Integrating Trade Secrets into a Comprehensive IP Strategy

Companies that conduct R&D often have a patentability procedure. That process is also well suited to trade secret protection. In […]

The Inscrutable Algorithm, Under Fire

The problem with machine-generated algorithms is they “somehow seem to absorb the bias around them…”

China Stole This U.S. Company’s IP The Old-Fashioned Way

The Chinese wind turbine company Sinovel managed to come up with some software that had been developed by a U.S.-based […]

Some PTAB Procedural Decisions Can Be Appealed

In January 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its en banc decision in Wi-Fi […]

Does Your Boss Own Your Brain?

Today, many employment agreements, particularly in the tech industry, include a clause assigning to an employer all discoveries, improvements, ideas, […]

Domestic “AK-47,” Made In FLA, Evades Sanctions

The best-known product of Kalishnikov, one of the strongest brands in the world, is the iconic AK-47 automatic rifle, widely […]

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