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Businesses can prevent third parties from misusing their valuable and commercially sensitive business information and trade secrets through contracts and the common law in Canada....more
The rise in trade secrets litigation in the electric vehicle (“EV”) sector continues with Tesla filing another lawsuit: this time against its own equipment supplier. On June 14, 2024, Tesla filed a complaint in the Northern...more
Since President Biden issued his Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been investigating the potential pitfalls of...more
Important decisions abound as the UPC navigates the still often unchartered waters of its Rules of Procedure (RoP). We recently discussed two orders by the Munich Division where third-party access requests based on...more
[co-author: Jamie Dohopolski] Last year, the continued global COVID-19 pandemic forced American courts to largely continue the procedures set in place in 2020. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was no...more
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Founders of an emerging company must decide early on in its growth cycle whether to require employees to assign their inventions (including rights to patent and patent applications –collectively “patent rights”) to the...more
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Invention disclosures made by an inventor to an attorney, or a review committee including attorney(s), often contain sensitive information that a client would prefer to keep confidential. It is important for both inventors...more
Many companies assume that they need to choose between patent protections or trade secret protections for their intellectual property, thereby foregoing an important tool in their arsenal to protect key company assets....more
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) can release confidential information about pending patent applications under special circumstances the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided. Hyatt v. Lee, Case No....more
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Case Number: 1:12-cv-09261-TPG (Dkt. 76) - The court denied plaintiffs’ motion to bar Par’s expert Professor Midian from receiving any of their confidential information unless he agreed to a patent prosecution bar. ...more