Most businesses think protecting their intellectual property is their own responsibility, and it is. But what about when our intellectual property rights are violated by an evildoer? Who are you going to call? Both State Attorneys General and Federal Prosecutors have tools at their disposal that let them bring the full force of the [...]
Each year, the US Trade Representative releases its “Special 301 report” – identifying countries that fail to provide “adequate and effective” intellectual property rights protection as well as “fair and equitable market access” to US persons relying upon IP rights. The 2016 Report included substantial information regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and commitments “to [...]
We are pleased to inform our readers that the deadline for registration for the May-June 2017 session of the online certificate course on IPR and competition law conducted by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has been extended till May 10, 2017. For further details, please read their post below: [...]
In September 2014, a California woman named Linda Rubenstein sued Neiman Marcus over allegedly misleading price tags at their “Last Call” line of stores. In the case, Rubenstein alleged that the company misled consumers at its Last Call stores with prices tags that listed a cost “compared to” a fictitious higher price, designed to [...]
Henry Bloget: “Move fast and break things is Facebook’s prime directive to developers. Unless you are breaking stuff,” Zuckerberg said, “you are not moving fast enough.” Eight years later, Zuckerberg Facebook mantra has taken an altogether different meaning. In a new book, Hollywood Producer and former USC Annenberg Innovation Lab, offers a dark vision [...]
Indeed, the Code of Conduct for Article III Judges of the United States has specific provisions that would seem to absolutely prohibit a judge from handling a case where a litigant is a former client. Some may argue, perhaps correctly, that at some point any conflict requiring disqualification that might have existed as the [...]
