SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

In June 2024, I covered some nuances regarding confidentiality and disclosures in the SB and DB orders passed in InterDigital Technology Corporation vs. Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp. Ltd ( here and here ). No segregation was made between in-house and external members.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

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.

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 30, 2022

introduced legislation to restrict confidentiality provisions from covering claims of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. 8146, appears to be a federal effort to expedite the state-level trend to exempt discrimination, harassment, and retaliation information from confidentiality restrictions. By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 15, 2024

” After the parties got together, an agreement was reached to confidentially disclose basic subscriber information related to 64 Discord User IDs. Discord Draws a Line In July, Discord sent a letter to Nexon, informing the game company that it has no intention of cooperating with the latest request, describing it as improper.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Businesses can prevent third parties from misusing their valuable and commercially sensitive business information and trade secrets through contracts and the common law in Canada. By: Smart & Biggar

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 27, 2025

“After exchanging intelligence information, it was possible to verify that the criminals were monopolizing the sales of gas and water cylinders in communities that are influenced by the criminal organization, law enforcement officers reported last week. Expansion beyond pirate TV into other commodity markets is common too.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Why that’s the case isn’t mentioned in the High Court order, and the same applies to other confidential aspects of the case to prevent circumvention. Once Sky becomes aware of a server it needs to block, IP address information can be sent to the respondent ISPs for blocking in real-time.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

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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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

But while this technology is becoming more sophisticated by the day, companies should still proceed with caution when using GAI in a workplace setting due to its potential impact on confidential and proprietary information. By: Miller Canfield

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Trading Secrets

APRIL 20, 2022

Mr. Matlock personally prepared the waffles using his confidential recipe, which were later delivered to Oprah by Eastern Standard. Eastern Standard claims that it has never sold a single waffle using the Burgundian confidential recipe, and that it has no plans to do so.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 2, 2024

When it comes to the true source of a company’s value, it’s not necessarily in the products or the services they offer, nor is it in the brand they’ve carefully developed. The core of a company’s value is in the trade secrets and special processes used to create those products or provide those services.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 13, 2022

Any errors in it were either extremely minor or were made deliberately to protect a confidential source. She further claims that, by publicly correcting those masking errors, The Atlantic and The Washington Post breached the confidentiality of her source. However, the lawsuit, to my mind, leaves a great deal of questions unanswered.

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Trading Secrets

AUGUST 17, 2022

Everyone generally agrees that people and organizations should be able to protect their proprietary and valuable information. Employee can provide confidential information to Government Agencies without risk of being held liable by Brinks for liquidated damages or other financial penalties. with respect to such communications.”.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 18, 2022

However, when these words are part of a court filing intended to keep information from the public, we have to respond. This information includes documents, source code, and witness testimony regarding the company’s efforts to track online pirates. MarkMonitor Evidence. This accusation is based on evidence from MarkMonitor.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The greater importance attached to trade secrets results from the volume of valuable business and technical information generated by the use of IT, the reliance on partners in supply chains and other forms of international collaboration, the increased. By: Smart & Biggar

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JANUARY 27, 2025

FitzMark, LLC , a logistics brokerage firm in Indianapolis, Indiana , has filed a lawsuit against former employee Micah Adkins and Koola Logistics, LLC , alleging breaches of confidentiality , misappropriation of trade secrets , and interference with business relationships.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 23, 2025

Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a portion of the Confidential Business Information rule (CBI) in the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) regulations as the panel of judges found it unlawfully allows for the unwanted disclosure of chemical manufacturers' trade secrets. By: Williams Mullen

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 27, 2025

These systems develop patterns and forecasts through a combination of information, graphics, voice, and text. However, the information used for the purpose of training AI models belongs to third parties and, therefore, can be copyrighted or protected by patents. Therefore, processed data contains sensitive information.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The defendant objected to this request, as handing over a hard drive copy would also reveal privacy-sensitive information such as family photos and content protected by attorney-client privilege. While the hard drive and cloud hosting accounts may offer important evidence, they could also expose sensitive personal information.

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Patently-O

JUNE 6, 2024

Neuropublic provided the firm with a detailed, confidential 21-page “Proposed Invention Disclosure” describing this technology. Ladas & Parry then allegedly sent this entire confidential disclosure to a third-party firm in India called PatentManiac, without informing Neuropublic’s or obtaining consent.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

And unfortunately, some continue making news for AI disasters such as disclosing confidential information and citing nonexistent case law. Most are at least exploring AI and considering where it may fit, if anywhere, in their law practice.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The music labels could use this information to gather further evidence to support their allegations. The names, emails, and addresses of the subscribers are marked as “highly confidential” and can only be viewed by attorneys acting for the music companies. The nature of information sought by Altice isn’t clear.

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IPilogue

APRIL 19, 2022

Further, Cartier also asserts that immediately upon hiring her, Tiffany’s President for the Americas met with Marino for the express purpose of obtaining information about Cartier. This act disregarded Marino’s confidentiality and non-solicitation contractual obligations to Cartier. Tiffany & Co “misappropriated” the information.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 19, 2024

The disclosures have been directed to be made within four weeks and included in the confidentiality club to ensure the protection of sensitive information. Both parties requested the establishment of a confidentiality club to protect sensitive information disclosed during the trial, to which the DHC agreed.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 14, 2024

An American Arbitration Association arbitrator recently awarded Black Knight, Inc. (BK) BK) $155M stemming from Pennymac Loan Services, LLC’s (Pennymac) alleged use of its mortgage-loan servicing platform to develop its own competing product.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The judge’s full findings won’t be public for a couple of weeks, to enable both sides to redact confidential business information. ITC Judge MaryJoan McNamara said SharkNinja infringed two of four asserted iRobot patents, according to a notice posted last week on the agency’s electronic docket.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Image by storyset on Freepik Recently, the Delhi High Court (DHC) issued an interim injunction in a lawsuit concerning trade secrets and confidential information. The first, is if there is a contract between both parties that contains a specific obligation to protect confidential information. 2 should be restrained.

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JD Supra Law

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As a result of the recent string of legislative and regulatory efforts to curb or eliminate the use of non-competition agreements in employment, employers may have lost sight of relatively non-controversial measures they can take to prevent unfair competition following an employee’s departure. By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

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IPilogue

MAY 17, 2022

Trade secrets require elements such as: value (economic/industrial), that it is kept secret, and that there are reasonable measures in place to keep it confidential. Once disclosed, the trade secret loses its necessary quality of confidence that makes it confidential and valuable to a business.

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Patent Trademark Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If you have a simple product that others can easily copy, you wouldn’t be thinking about keeping anything confidential. The Tradeoff: Giving Up Secret Information To Get Exclusive Rights. In exchange for the public disclosure of your proprietary information, the government is willing to give you a patent.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 16, 2025

The patent claimed an apparatus for vehicle exhaust gas testing comprising an information processing unit connected to a display that could acquire and process running data during road tests. The question then became whether conditions of confidentiality could be said to have applied to the manual.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 16, 2024

In such cases there are some factors that essentially set the company apart, such factor has to be kept confidential and requires protection. There is no definite definition of trade secrets, it includes extensive range of information of commercial and technical nature. What is a Trade Secret?

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 15, 2022

“The transcript contains information and reference to MarkMonitor’s source code that is private, proprietary, confidential and commercially sensitive trade secret information regarding its antipiracy detection system,” MarkMonitor writes. However, that can be valuable information to competitors.

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Kashishipr

JANUARY 27, 2022

A Non-Disclosure Agreement (abbreviated as NDA) is a legal document signed to safeguard the previously-mentioned sensitive information. In this article, we will focus and analyze only the commercial application of an NDA by understanding how it could be used to protect a business and its IP assets.

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Kashishipr

APRIL 20, 2022

In simple terms, trade secrets are Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) granted on confidential or sensitive info, which may be licensed or sold. Information Protected by a Trade Secret . A still-new form of IP that has gained recognition in the past two decades is trade secrets, which we shall be discussing here in this blog.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

by Dennis Crouch In most patent cases, the parties jointly agree to a system limiting the publication of confidential case information and typically file a stipulated motion for protective order seeking the a judicial order requiring the parties to comply. US11147246 and US11033007. But the court disagreed. ” See Shane Grp.,

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2022

Confidential Settlement. Last week, they informed the Virginia federal court that an agreement had been reached. The full details of the settlement agreement are confidential. Instead of fighting the case on its merits, both parties have agreed to settle the case behind closed doors.

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