IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Waymo alleged that its former manager, Anthony Levandowski, had organized a competing company while still at Waymo, and before leaving had downloaded 14,000 confidential documents.

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Above the Fold

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In a world where non-compete agreements are being curtailed or outright banned, companies need to enhance their use of other ways to protect their intellectual property and confidential information when their employees leave to go work for competitors. developed during the term of employment.

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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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IP Law 360

MAY 9, 2024

An Illinois federal judge handling antitrust claims targeting the credit-scoring market should disregard the "sideshows" customers lodged by requesting confidential settlement records and other documents that are too far removed from the case's core issues, Fair Isaac Corp. argued on Wednesday.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Shi then left Elation to start a business marketing “similar, if not identical software” using replicated source code. A settlement agreement was reached where Elation could inspect the software developed by Shi and prevent the use of any trade secrets or confidential information.

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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. Generally, any confidential piece of business info that provides a competitive edge to a company or firm and isn’t known to others may be safeguarded as a trade secret.

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IP.com

DECEMBER 1, 2024

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IIPRD

MARCH 13, 2025

Understanding Different Types of Intellectual Property Trademarks A trademark is like a unique identity for a brandit can be a name, logo, slogan, label, packaging, shape, a mix of colours, or even a combination of any of themthat makes a product or service stand out in the market. or (a golden arch) means McDonald’s.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

A quick glance at last week – Madras HC accepts a US District Court’s Letter Rogatory to furnish confidential information, a look at Functional Fallacies in Thomson Reuters vs Ross Intelligence and many more. We also have the initiation of our attempt to bring IP conversations to wider audiences through multilingual writing!

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Per the Plaintiff’s website, 3CHI was founded by a biochemist that has focused on cannabinoid research and brining minor cannabinoids to market. During her employment, Journay was promoted to Marketing Manager. 3CHI alleges to have almost single handedly put cannabis into national mainstream acceptance.

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Kashishipr

JANUARY 27, 2022

For maintaining a competitive edge in the market, businesses need to keep innovating. In legal terms, it is a contract signed amongst at least two parties looking forward to detailing confidential knowledge, clauses, statements, or any information they wish to restrict from access by third parties.

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Nelligan Law

MARCH 12, 2025

Why Businesses Consider a Merger or Acquisition Expansion:Acquiring a competitor can result in a increase in the companys existing market share while also eliminating the competition and acquiring their expertise with it. Economies of scope can arise from leveraging combined resources to develop new products or enter new markets.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In a market saturated with tens of thousands of games spanning dozens of genres, videogamers don’t have to look far to find the next big challenge to conquer. Both were directly involved in the development, marketing, sale, and distribution of cheats, the gaming companies claim.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Softgel: The Errors of Comity The Madras High Court accepted a Letter Rogatory from The US District Court in Delaware directing India-based Softgel Healthcare to furnish confidential information to the US Court. The defendants argued that the plaintiffs were engaging in a fishing and roving inquiry into confidential business information.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 31, 2023

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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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

MARCH 11, 2024

In Cyprus, Texas , Valcrum, LLC (“Valcrum”), a company specializing in trailer and axle market products, is engaged in a legal dispute with Dexter Axle Company, LLC (“Dexter”) from Indiana over trademark and trade dress infringement regarding a hubcap design. Continue reading

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IP.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Companies now use generative AI tools to streamline innovation, expedite the patenting process, and generate unique ideas while ensuring the confidentiality of valuable IP assets. This is where platforms like IQ Ideas+ excel, providing a secure, closed ecosystem where data remains confidential and entirely within the organization’s control.

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IPilogue

JULY 21, 2021

assembled a digital two-way radio business largely deploying Motorola’s research and development, such as source code and confidential technical documents. By recruiting personnel with access to Motorola’s trade secrets, Hytera developed its digital two-way radios by hiring double agents to steal Motorola’s confidential data.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 15, 2022

Plaintiff, Tori Belle Cosmetics LLC (“Belle Cosmetics”), sells its cosmetics and false eyelashes through a network of salespeople, allowing each salesperson to earn a portion of any revenue generated by any salespeople they recruit to join their sales network, i.e., a multi-level marketing business. The court disagreed.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Companies rarely talked publicly about their content moderation efforts, even when the information wasn’t really confidential. 2) Share your non-confidential material publicly. The post My Trustcon 2022 Keynote Talk appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The whole process was a black box to regulators.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 11, 2023

A Texas judge has refused to grant Nestle's request for sanctions against two Mexican food distributors' "harassing behavior" in a lawsuit over gray-market versions of its Nescafé drink products, though it allowed Nestlé to keep certain documents confidential.

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Trading Secrets

MAY 9, 2022

In the third installment of our 2022 Trade Secrets Webinar Series, Seyfarth attorneys Justin Beyer and Ian Long discussed employee mobility and its impact on trade secrets and non-compete agreements, and shared practical steps that companies can take to protect intellectual capital in today’s market.

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Bio Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2020

settled three Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings concerning patents covering Alexion’s blockbuster humanized monoclonal antibody drug Soliris®, with Amgen obtaining a royalty-free license for marketing a biosimilar prior to expiration of the patents at issue. and Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. an eculizumab product.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

. “This is an obvious trade barrier and real threat to the free market,” ACT writes in its letter to the USTR. This regulation says that any internet providers that allow these to exist, or function without being blocked, will lose their market access.” ” China Too.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2025

“The court order is not public as it is classified as a non-public judicial decision and is subject to confidentiality under local legal procedures,” we were informed. The supply of CCCAM servers focused on Sky broadcasts may have laid the groundwork for its entry into the IPTV market towards 2014/2015.

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 14, 2024

Shadow trading”, on the other hand, involves misappropriation of confidential information about one company to trade in securities of a second company where there is a sufficient “market connection” between the two companies. By: Foley & Lardner LLP

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Trading Secrets

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Boston Beer is a brewer and marketer of beers, malt beverages, and hard ciders, known for its Samuel Adams and Angry Orchard products. Downeast is a rival maker and marketer of similar products, namely its eponymous cider. Shortly thereafter, he became a Senior Vice President of Marketing at Downeast.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 16, 2024

And there were other problems with the proposed award, including that Amazon omitted dollar amounts from its spreadsheet showing sales “ostensibly for confidentiality reasons.” The recommended award here surpassed “what equity allowed, which is the Lanham Act’s limit.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 8, 2024

We usually get ours at the local farmers market.] OxBlue * Want To Know Amazon’s Confidential Settlement Terms For A Keyword Advertising Lawsuit? CPUSA2 appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Yum, and easily veganized. ” Say what?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 29, 2022

Forge of Empires appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog. The court says Section 230 preempts most of those claims. March 28, 2022). The post Section 230 Preempts Game User’s Lawsuit Over Game Moderators’ Behavior–Quinteros v.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

” Some of these concerns have been mentioned previously but never from someone in such a unique position, seemingly prepared for all the right reasons, to lay it all on the line, without commercial concerns being anywhere near the equation.

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Olartemoure Blog

JANUARY 25, 2023

In addition, the databases and information that developers collect from their players are also confidential pieces of information and are protected as trade secrets. .  Trademarks Videogames’ names can be registered for their commercialization. Patents A videogame per se is not patentable.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 20, 2023

Protecting trade secrets under copyright law, Delhi High Court grants interim injunction to the plaintiff, restricting the defendant from marketing and selling its market research reports. Delhi High Court forms a confidentiality club to facilitate access to commercially sensitive documents. Case: Mohan Meakin Limited vs.

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IP Tech Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

While many see China’s AI policies as a cover to curb freedoms and control society, the reality is that China is an active AI developer in a thriving market for AI applications in both the trade and industrial sectors. China is at the forefront of the AI development race.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Plaintiff also requests that this Court issue an ex parte order seizing Defendants’ computers, computer hard drives, cellular phones, and other memory devices that could contain its confidential information. ” The post 2H 2022 Quick Links, Part 3 (Copyrights and More) appeared first on Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

If they see it, they might found out about a corner of the market that they have overlooked, a technology The trouble is, you have internal documents relevant to the trial that you really don’t want the other side to see.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 17, 2022

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