Patents, Employment Contract, Trade Secrets

Jenner & Block Japan Newsletter - July 2025

Jenner & Block on 7/22/2025

Welcome to the July 2025 edition of the Jenner & Block Japan Newsletter, a publication containing updates about legal developments in the United States that may be noteworthy to our clients and other leaders in the Japanese...more

Year-End Review of Key Trade Secret Decisions

Jones Day on 12/31/2019

A trade secret is any information used in one's business that derives independent economic value from being kept secret. Unlike patents, trade secrets are protected indefinitely for as long as they remain a secret. Due in...more

Securing Against Trade Secret Pitfalls and Dangers Arising From Employee Mobility Situations

Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 10/8/2019

Picture this: Your company is in a highly competitive industry with several leading players heavily supported by major corporate investors and/or venture capital funds. The market is expected to generate potentially hundreds...more

Federal Circuit Review - October 2017

Knobbe Martens on 11/14/2017

Federal Circuit Denies En Banc Rehearing in Mentor Graphics v. EVE-USA - In Mentor Graphics Corp. v. Eve-USA, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2015-1470, 2015-1554, 2015-1556, the Federal Circuit denied Synopsys’ and EVE’s petition for...more

Fresh From the Bench: Precedential Patent Cases From the Federal Circuit

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 9/16/2017

In Allied v. OSMI, the Circuit affirms dismissal of a declaratory judgment action even though Allied’s Mexican distributors had been sued in Mexico on a corresponding Mexican patent. In a first Waymo v. Uber case, the panel...more

Protecting IP Through Employment Law

Robins Kaplan LLP on 5/5/2015

Oftentimes, a patent case will not be decided by patent law, but by employment law. If an invention was developed by an employee or a third-party contractor without the proper agreements in place, the company may find itself...more