Eric Barton on What Employers Should Know About Where Social Media Password...
Social media is everywhere nowadays. The line between professional and personal with these accounts is growing more and more blurred. As such, lines designed to protect employee privacy are...
View ArticleCan pro sports players legally demand payment from online fantasy sites?
(credit: FanDuel) Hundreds of millions of dollars are wagered each week online by fantasy sports enthusiasts looking to profit from professional players' on-field performances. But do the players...
View ArticleIs Anything Worn By Katy Perry Protected by the U.S. Constitution?
A high-end Italian apparel brand responds to a lawsuit alleging that a famous street artist's work was ripped off for the singer's Met Gala dress.read more
View ArticleBill introduced to criminalize warrantless cell phone surveillance
The use of "stingrays" that capture data about cell phone calls has become increasingly controversial, but law enforcement agencies continue to embrace the devices. Just last week, IRS Director John...
View ArticleRoad Work Ahead: Automobiles and Augmented Reality
With still about a week left to go, Hudway’s Kickstarter campaign, which began last Wednesday for its augmented reality vehicle accessory, already has over 6,500 backers pledging more than...
View ArticleAnother Marshall defense verdict in patent case
A Marshall jury in Judge Rodney Gilstrap's court rendered a defense verdict in Promethean Insulation Technology v. Reflectix. After deliberating for about four hours the jury found that all of the...
View ArticleLaches as patent infringement defense
For a discussion of laches as a defense in patent infringement cases, seethe NLR article “Raging Bull” and the Patent Act: Laches Still Available in Patent Cases - SCA Hygiene Products v. First Quality...
View ArticlePTO Rules: File Sharing and Correcting Foreign Priority Claims
By Dennis Crouch NOTE: See final paragraph for Nov. 5 pending rule change for correcting foreign priority claims. The USPTO has published a new Final Rule notice titled: Changes To Facilitate...
View ArticleThe significance of a denial of an IPR petition
In a thread at PatentlyO on the WARF v. Apple case [and inferences to be made from the USPTO denial of Apple's IPR petition], one has commentsThe USPTO has finite resources to place on IPRs, and there...
View ArticleIn which I win a motion to intervene
Actually, my fine attorneys at Public Citizen have prevailed in my motion to intervene in SanMedica v. Amazon, the case in which the court found sufficient evidence of likely confusion under the 10th...
View ArticleOnly connect: security company enjoined from false association with ADT
ADT, LLC v. Capital Connect, Inc., 2015 WL 6549277, No. 3:15-CV-2252 (N.D. Tex. Oct. 28, 2015) ADT provides electronic security services and equipment to nearly one quarter of those American homes that...
View ArticleData Breaches May Occur in the Smallest Places
Anyone watching the news over the past years and several months has heard about major data breaches at the federal government, Sony, Anthem, and Target Stores. Data breaches are often big news. But...
View ArticleNew Department of Homeland Security Regulation Aims to Preserve and Enhance...
On October 19, 2015, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register regarding optional practical training (OPT) extensions for F-1...
View ArticleUS gov’t grants limited right to revive games behind “abandoned” servers...
(credit: Flickr / craigfinlay) After nearly a year of debate and deliberation, the Library of Congress (LoC) has granted gamers and preservationists a limited legal method to restore access to games...
View ArticleText of 2d Circuit Decision in Point Break Parody Copyright Case
Defendant’s unauthorized work that made “fair use” of its source material (it was a parody of the movie POINT BREAK). 2d Cir holding: if the creator of an unauthorized work stays within the bounds of...
View ArticlePhotographer Says Steve Jobs Film Infringed His Copyrighted Photo
Carl Roessler alleges that Universal Pictures (among quite a few other named defendants) used Roessler’s shark photograph in the new Steve Jobs film without his permission. Roessler seeks an...
View ArticleLessig quits presidency bid, blames political system he wanted to change
Lessig announces end to presidential bid. It didn't take long for Harvard legal scholar Larry Lessig, the cofounder of Creative Commons, to drop his US presidency bid as a Democrat. Lessig trumpeted...
View ArticleThe Bitcoin Business State License Requirement: BitLicense
The last post in this series by Atlanta Bitcoin attorney Mark Richardson VI familiarized the reader with the regulatory vernacular of the New York BitLicense law now in effect. Let’s now examine to...
View ArticleTrademark Cases
Trademark cases are almost interesting. Here are the last 10 filed according to my docket report: Kentucky Mist Moonshine Inc. v. University of Kentucky (E.D.Ky.) (declaratory judgment lawsuit that UK...
View ArticleNational Geographic Considers Technology and Its Threat to Humanity
By Kevin E. Noonan -- Progress, and faith in progress to improve human lives, has been a cornerstone belief in American civilization (and, indeed, Western civilization generally, at least since St...
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