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PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - Cease and Desist Letters: Protecting Your Intellectual Property the Right Way
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The advent of generative artificial intelligence has given rise to a debate about how this innovative technology will affect intellectual property rights and trade secret protections in particular....more
Protecting trade secrets in any business is critical, but the stakes are higher in life sciences. Given the high focus on innovation in the industry, corporate espionage can result in devastating financial and reputational...more
We live in an era in which information is a valuable commodity. Access to data, ideas, and trade secrets is in high demand, particularly for individuals or companies seeking to profit from this information. One way they gain...more
There is no law or regulation instructing contractors how to mark commercial technical data delivered to the Department of Defense (DoD). Yet the DoD Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) is quite clear that...more
During their annual In-House Counsel Seminar, Ward and Smith Certified AI Governance Professional and privacy and data security attorney Angela Doughty provided a comprehensive overview of the potential impacts of the use of...more
The European Commission has released a new template for summarizing training data used in general-purpose artificial intelligence ("AI") models, as part of its broader AI regulatory framework....more
AT A GLANCE - Beyond whether DeepSeek used data from existing AI application program interfaces (APIs) to train its models lie concerns about whether querying an AI API may lead to trade secret misappropriation....more
AI companies should familiarize themselves with trade secret law to safeguard their innovations. A company does not need to register a trade secret to invoke it in litigation, unlike other IP protections. Trade secrets can...more
Insider threats continue to present a significant challenge for organizations of all sizes. One particularly concerning scenario involves employees who leave an organization and impermissibly take or download sensitive...more
To protect its data and better compete in the market, an organization must treat its data as an intellectual property. That means understanding the different intellectual property regimes and their accompanying requirements....more
Legal regimes are shifting, including in the intellectual property world as businesses increasingly seek the protection of trade secrets rather than patents to secure their confidential information. When the Defend Trade...more
This is the second article in our two-part series on Cybersecurity in the Age of Industry 4.0, focusing on the legal implications and potential liabilities manufacturers face from cyberattacks, as well as practical...more
How do you protect trade secrets? You take reasonable efforts to maintain the secrecy of the information. As we have outlined in prior installments of this series, taking reasonable efforts to maintain secrecy is a key issue...more
The EU AI Act is on the verge of becoming the first law to specifically govern the use of artificial intelligence at a European level. In light of the extensive set of new obligations imposed on companies, and considering the...more
Trade secrets have become a de facto intellectual property right for securing valuable artificial intelligence information. Despite regulatory trends toward greater transparency of AI models, federal policy acknowledges,...more
Is theft of trade secrets a crime in Arkansas? Yes. Under Arkansas Code Annotated Section 5-36-107, the Arkansas Penal Code establishes that theft of trade secrets is a Class A misdemeanor. The statute establishes that a...more
While AI has been a revolutionary development that can streamline and improve many workplace tasks, it also comes with legal hurdles that need to be carefully navigated. Meagan Bainbridge and Lukas Clary review some of the...more
The proliferation of AI-derived and processed data in the era of big data is occurring against a complex backdrop of legal frameworks governing ownership of and responsibilities with regard to that data. In a previous...more
Don’t miss Procopio’s 3rd Annual Construction Forum webinar on Wednesday, November 15, 2023, an informative half-day program focused on the most pressing California construction law issues facing contractors, developers and...more
The construction industry is full of valuable business information including customer lists, pricing information, project budgets, and more. The value of such information may be lost if it becomes known to a competitor or the...more
It is often said that the best defense is a good offense. That is certainly true if you are an employer conducting a risk assessment of potential employee defections that could expose your company to losses of valuable...more
1 42 On May 10, 2022, a former Coca-Cola chemist was sentenced to 14 years in prison for selling trade secrets to a Chinese government-backed corporation. This example demonstrates the way the supply chain increasingly...more
Join Us for Protecting Trade Secrets & Gaining a Competitive Edge in the Digital Age - Sophisticated Strategies to Protect Critical Assets When Key Employees Depart & Business Relationships Break Down - The protection...more
Join Mayer Brown partners Richard Assmus and Oliver Yaros as they discuss with host Julian Dibbell how to address the IP pitfalls in data monetization. Their discussion will focus on the unseen value of data, the difficulties...more
Since its passage almost three years ago, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) has offered California-based consumers certain rights over the personal information companies collect and process about them. While...more