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SEC Continues to Police Confidentiality Provisions for Theoretical Whistleblower Suppression

LexBlog IP

Morgan Securities, LLC (“JPMS”) for allegedly including overbroad release provisions in settlement agreements. ” Another SEC official also commented that “[t]hose drafting or using confidentiality agreements need to ensure that they do not include provisions that impede potential whistleblowers.”

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Formycon/Fresenius Kabi and Samsung Bioepis Settlements with J&J and Janssen Biotech regarding Ustekinumab

LexBlog IP

On August 7, 2023, Formycon AG and Fresenius Kabi announced that they have reached a settlement with Johnson & Johnson (“J&J”) in the United States relating to FYB202, a proposed ustekinumab biosimilar to STELARA®, marketed by J&J. Economic terms of the settlement were not disclosed in the press release.

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NLRB to Release Memo Clarifying Impact of McLaren Macombs on Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement Restrictions

LexBlog IP

The Board sent shockwaves through employment law in its February 21, 2023, decision in McLaren Macomb , which held that simply offering a draft settlement agreement with broad confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions violated the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”). Are those impacted by this decision?

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Daniel Alexander KC says "no" on indemnity costs, blanket confidentiality orders and permission to appeal in Oxford University Innovation dispute

The IPKat

In the consequentials hearing judgment [2023] EWHC 138 , the Judge dealt with (1) royalty payments; (2) costs; (3) confidentiality; and (4) permission to appeal. Of the most interesting to this Kat was the treatment of costs (well, some of them), confidentiality and permission to appeal.

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Medical Device Companies Settle Trade Secrets Dispute for $8,000,000

LexBlog IP

In 2017, Life Spine entered into various agreements with Aegis by which Aegis would sell and distribute ProLift devices while maintaining as confidential all proprietary information related to the devices. Aegis is a medical device manufacturer and distributor headquartered in California.

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ACE Expands to Become a Lean and Mean Anti-Piracy Machine

TorrentFreak

Confidential agreements with domain registrars and registries, for example, help to efficiently take down domain names. Government’s National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center. Looking ahead to 2023, Van Voorn says that ACE will continue where it left off by adding more members in the new year.

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Guest book review: Contentious Trade Mark Registry Proceedings

The IPKat

This title was nominated in the IPKat book of the year awards 2023! Chapter 5 discusses the applications to registrar and requests for disclosing confidential information. This is a book review of Contentious Trade Mark Registry Proceedings by Michael Edenborough KC.

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