Recent U.S. trade secret verdicts have demonstrated the extraordinary financial exposure companies face under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA). Courts have awarded hundreds of millions in damages for misappropriation of...more
8/22/2025
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Confidential Information ,
Corporate Counsel ,
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Trade Secrets
As generative AI technology advances, the legal battles over the use of copyrighted materials for training these models are heating up. In the first wave of lawsuits the courts have diverged in their approach to fair use as a...more
Introducing the IP Litigation Quarterly Update, a quarterly newsletter summarizing noteworthy and interesting opinions related to intellectual property law.
In this first edition covering the first quarter of 2020, the...more
5/12/2020
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Corporate Counsel ,
Design Patent ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Joinder ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Petition for Writ of Certiorari ,
Prior Art ,
Settlement Agreements ,
Sovereign Immunity ,
Time-Barred Claims ,
Trademarks
The Federal Circuit issued a precedential opinion on July 23, 2019, affirming the validity of two design patents related to the Ford F-150 hood and headlamp and sweepingly rejecting arguments that the patents on automotive...more