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IP Strategy Series: How to Craft an IP Strategy Across Your Corporation

IP.com

Training programs should cover topics such as recognizing potential IP, proper documentation, and confidentiality obligations. Employment Agreements: Ensure that employment contracts include IP clauses that clarify the ownership of inventions created during employment.

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Trade Secrets Food Fight Spotlights Importance of Comprehensive Agreements

LexBlog IP

alleging a pizza franchisee failed to maintain the confidentiality of Texas pizza chain CiCi Enterprises LP’s trade secrets after two affiliates inked a development deal with competitor, Papa John’s. 4] In addition to its federal and state trade secrets claims, CiCi Enterprises alleged a breach of contract.

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Fatal Mistakes Made By The ‘Bored Ape Yacht Club’ & ‘Crypto Punks’ NFT Projects

Traverse Legal Blog

Your trademark identifies your company as the source of goods and services related to your NFTs and digital assets (the pictures linked to your NFT smart contracts). They require both chain of tile and a contract setting forth the seller and buyers’ essential contract terms. NFTs are no different.

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Mr Justice Zacaroli finds manufacturing software copyright infringed and confidence breached in ex-employee fight

The IPKat

When one hears the claims of copyright infringement, confidential information and employment claims one can readily assume that this is an employer/ex-employee dispute. US proceedings were filed by PQ against CyberMetrics in October 2017, Mr Aughton was deposed in October 2021 and the proceedings then settled on confidential terms.

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Bitcoin and the Tort of Conversion in the Electronic Age

Nelligan Law

Reading Time: 5 minutes I last wrote about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in the context of a Mareva injunction obtained against the developers of cryptocurrency wallet in the context of “Freedom Convoy” litigation. Exit It Contract Consulting Inc. For example, in Utilebill Credit Corporation v. Ramirez’s property rights in bitcoins.

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IT`S NOT ONLY PATENTS: PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING TO PROTECT INNOVATION

LexBlog IP

It is a fact that they do not provide anything like a formal ownership/right title, it is also a fact that they are set forth by the law, and therefore they may be judicially enforced by alternative ways of action. Last, we refer to contractual stipulations as a source of protection for innovations, proceedings, or knowledge.

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

Patently-O

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]