Intellectual Property

The Defend Trade Secrets Act One Year Later

Despite the creation of a new federal cause of action in the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), the number of […]

Supreme Court Upholds Trademarks’ Right To Offend

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office cannot deny trademarks they deem “disparaging,” the Supreme Court ruled this week. The Court […]

Trump Expands Chinese Trademarks

President Donald Trump may now assign his name to Chinese veterinary services and construction, after that country’s trademark office granted […]

Criminal Defendant Rights Getting Trampled By “Trade Secrets”

The fate of criminal defendants is increasingly being determined by algorithms brought to bear at various stages of the process, […]

Sustainability Accounting Standards As The New GAAP

A hundred years ago, basic corporate financials were considered nobody’s business but the company’s. It took the depression of the […]

Internet Giants Plan Net Neutrality ‘Day of Action’

Tech firms including Amazon, Etsy, Reddit, and Vimeo are planning a day of action on July 12 to draw attention […]

Regulators Eye Privacy As New Antitrust Battleground

When Andreas Mundt, president of Germany’s antitrust agency, said he was “deeply convinced privacy is a competition issue,” he spoke […]

Patent-Holding Company Fights To Stay In East Texas

Neither patent-holding company Uniloc nor Google have ties to the Eastern District of Texas, but Uniloc is fighting hard to […]

CA Ban On Non-Competes Has Exceptions

California is widely cited as the prime example of a jurisdiction where, for better or for worse, non-compete agreements are […]

Trade Secret “Inevitable Disclosure” Not Dead Yet

Some have assumed that the doctrine of inevitable disclosure was put to rest by the passage of the Defend Trade […]

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