The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a rise in fraud by wrongdoers seeking to profit off public panic and strained resources. One such example is asserted in the lawsuit filed by global health care company Abbott Laboratories...more
On May 21, 2020, the Copyright Office issued a Report on the DMCA (“Report”) expressing the view that case law applying the DMCA’s safe harbor provision have fallen out of balance, tilting too far in favor of online platforms...more
7/9/2020
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Digital Media ,
DMCA ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
Machine Learning ,
Musical Sound Recordings ,
Online Platforms ,
Online Videos ,
Safe Harbors ,
Takedown Notices ,
Websites
MillerCoors (beer maker of Coors Light and Miller Lite) and Anheuser-Busch (“AB”) (competing beer maker of Bud Light) have been embroiled in a contentious federal district court litigation in the W.D. of Wisconsin since March...more
11/25/2019
/ Advertising ,
Beer ,
Beverage Manufacturers ,
Counterclaims ,
Dilution ,
False Advertising ,
Goods or Services ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Misleading Statements ,
Retail Market ,
Super Bowl ,
Trademarks
Developments in technology have led to advanced ways of protecting trade secrets. In an age where passwords, metadata, and paper trails are often the stories told to demonstrate misappropriation, it may seem that trade...more
A $700 million jury award for trade secrets misappropriation and fraud is the product of a collusive scheme to deceive the jury, claims title insurance and valuations provider Amrock, formerly known as Title Source, in its...more
In a testament to the wide breadth of potential trade secret protection to any number of industries, a court in the Western District of Washington denied a 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss Seattle Sperm Bank’s (SSB) DTSA and...more
8/22/2018
/ Confidential Information ,
Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) ,
Federal Rule 12(b)(6) ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Misappropriation ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Standard Operating Procedures ,
State and Local Government ,
Trade Secrets ,
UTSA
Just as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has shown a keen interest in better understanding policy concerns and the needs of business stakeholders in the area of trade secrets against the backdrop of a new federal law, the...more
In a dispute over ripped off recipes, counsel for victorious plaintiff Dalmatia Import Group hailed the jury verdict as the first of its kind under the Defend Trade Secrets Act, as we previously reported. Not so fast, sulked...more
After a long political season that took many twists and turns due in part to revelations from WikiLeaks, the holiday season finally arrived. For many, that meant family traditions, time away from work, and massive amounts of...more
Over the years, it has proven difficult to fit software in any one category of IP protection. And while software’s ability to seemingly transcend patents, copyright, and trade secrets provides software developers and...more