Intellectual Property Protection, Contract Terms, Legislative Agendas

AI Created It—But Do You Own It? IP Issues Explained

DarrowEverett LLP on 7/7/2025

As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies increasingly generate content, designs, code, inventions, and even music, businesses face a pressing legal question: who owns the output when a machine creates it? The legal...more

New York Legislature Considers Revised Non-Compete Ban

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/27/2023

Seyfarth Synopsis: The New York State Assembly has joined the State Senate in passing legislation to prohibit non-compete clauses in employment contracts. The bill now heads to the Governor and, if signed into law, would void...more

New York Governor: “Balance” Is Needed on Noncompete Bill

Epstein Becker & Green on 11/30/2023

As we predicted when the New York legislature passed a bill that would ban noncompetes in the state without even an exception for the sale of a business, Governor Kathy Hochul has said that she wants changes to the bill –...more

That Was Quick—Massachusetts Legislature Seeks to Clarify 2018 Non-Compete Law, and to Exempt Physician Assistants

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/17/2019

Last summer, after a decade of fits and starts, and just minutes before the end of the 2018 legislative session, the Massachusetts legislature finally passed comprehensive non-compete reform, which went into effect on October...more

Congress Aims to Restrict Use of Non-Competes Nationwide

Orrick - Trade Secrets Group on 11/4/2019

As reported by Trade Secrets Watch last month, several states (including Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island) recently passed legislation curtailing the use of non-compete agreements. Now, the federal government...more

Another Year, Another Attempt in the U.S. Senate to Ban Non-Competes Nationwide

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 10/31/2019

Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) have introduced legislation entitled the Workforce Mobility Act (“WMA”). The WMA, like its prior incarnation from last year, seeks to ban non-compete agreements outside...more