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Attaching Confidential Settlement Agreement to Complaint Serves as Basis for Counterclaim

JD Supra Law

For example, a failed collaboration that involved the exchange of confidential information may result in the disclosing party alleging that the recipient both misappropriated trade secrets and breached the parties' confidentiality agreement.

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A Hospital Mailed a Patient’s Confidential Diagnosis to a Rando. You’ll Never Guess What Happened Next–ZD v. Community Health

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Why did Jonae post ZD’s confidential diagnosis on Facebook? There were two obvious breakdowns that led to this bizarre and highly unfortunate set of events: (1) the hospital sending confidential medical information to a non-patient, and (2) the letter recipient publicizing the confidential medical information.

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Minnesota’s Attempt to Copy California’s Constitutionally Defective Age Appropriate Design Code is an Utter Fail (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

by guest blogger Jess Miers, Legal Advocacy Counsel at Chamber of Progress [Eric’s intro: last year I blogged about Minnesota’s flirtation with mandatory age verification. In an attempt to address this concern, Minnesota offers some protection by maintaining the confidentiality of information subject to attorney-client privilege.

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Analysing Dipak Ranjan Mukherjee vs. Ministry of Commerce & Industry in Context of Transparency, Privacy and the RTI Act

SpicyIP

In an interesting development, the CIC recently rejected an RTI application concerning information on IPRS’ compliance with the Copyright Act, upholding privacy for private organizations and confidentiality of inquiry reports that have not been tabled in front of the Parliament. Many such examples have piled up throughout the years.

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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

Join me for a walk around the blogs. The changes introduce (i) a codified proportionality defense to injunctions in patent infringement proceedings, (ii) new confidentiality rules for patent disputes, and (iii) an accelerated timeline for nullity actions. Kluwer Patent Blog reported on the changes.

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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

Take shelter in this post and check what was published last week around the IP blogs. A Kat being extra careful while Mercury is retrograde Copyright SpicyIP analysed a recent decision from the Bombay High Court, in which it was decided that ideas cannot be copyrighted but can be protected through the application of confidentiality law.

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

Trading Secrets

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?