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IT’S 2018: THE IMPACT OF IP DECISIONS FROM 2017
2017 saw a bumper crop of Supreme Court decisions on intellectual property matters around the world including eight by the United States Supreme Court, two by the Canadian Supreme Court, and two by the United Kingdom Supreme Court. U.S. Supreme...
Read ArticleGOOGLE INC. v. EQUUSTEK & THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA
In the case of Google Inc. v. Equustek, the Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the grant of a preliminary injunction by the Court of Appeals of British Columbia ordering Google to de-index on a global basis websites of a party accused of passing off...
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RESOLUTIONS FOR THE C-SUITE
Innovative solutions are the foundation of almost every successful company. Tied to almost everything your company creates, every item it produces and sells, every service it provides and every way in which it is marketed, are potential intellectual...
Read ArticleTRADE SECRETS: CHANGES IN THE LAW ON PROTECTION OF TRADE SECRETS IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPEAN UNION
Concerns about trade secret theft have been increasing in both the United States and Europe in recent years. Traditionally, American law disfavored trade secret protection vis à vis patenting on the basis that publication of inventions was good for...
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IP DEVELOPMENTS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND TRADE SECRETS
2016 has been a year of IP changes and these changes have had an effect upon biotechnology as well as trade...
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CHANGE HAS COME TO TRADE SECRETS IN THE United States: The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016
Concerns about trade secret theft have been increasing in recent years and the America Invents Act included provisions that reduced the commercial risks that a business would run by trying to keep inventions as trade secrets rather than patenting...
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