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Jun.06.2013 ITC Rules for Samsung; Bans Imports and Sales of Older Models of Apple's iPhone and iPad
May.28.2013 Texas Adopts Version of Uniform Trade Secrets Act
May.23.2013 U.S.P.T.O. Modifies Program for Consideration of Responses Submitted to Final Office Actions
Apr.30.2013 Much-Anticipated Decision On Rates To License Standard Essential Patents Issues
Mar.26.2013 Companies May Begin to Protect Their Online Presence Anew: Trademark Clearinghouse Now Available For New gTLDs
Mar.11.2013 ICANN Publishes the URS Rules and an Updated Version of the URS Procedure
Mar.04.2013 New Legislation Seeks to Shift Legal Fees to Unsuccessful Nonpracticing Entities
Feb.22.2013 First Ever RICO Claim Against NPE Dismissed, But Other Claims Including RAND Commitments Remain Viable
Feb.21.2013 The White House Shines a Spotlight on Trade Secret Theft
Feb.11.2013 Congress Increases Criminal Penalties for Trade Secrets Theft
Feb.05.2013 Court Dismisses Patent Troll Attack on Patent Aggregator RPX (For Now)
Feb.05.2013 Second Circuit Holds That Employee's Misuse of Information on a Computer Server Alone Satisfies Minimum Contacts Test for Personal Jurisdiction in That State
Jan.30.2013 California Court Recognizes Narrowly Drawn CFAA Claim Against Traffickers of Access Credentials
Jan.16.2013 Federal Circuit Clarifies the ITC's Domestic Industry Requirement for Licensing Activities, Opening Door for More NPE Filings
Jan.09.2013 FTC Settles with Google on Standard-Essential Patents
Dec.21.2012 Congress Broadens Federal Criminal Trade Secrets Statute
Dec.18.2012 FTC Continues Campaign Against Injunctions for Standard Essential Patents: Uses Section 5 to Push Section 2 Boundaries
Aug.13.2012 The Latest Attempt to Federalize Trade Secret Law
Jul.20.2012 Patent Law Alert: An Invention is Patentable Unless it is Not "Manifestly Evident" That the Invention is an Abstract Idea
Jul.18.2012 Patent Law Alert: Pre-Suit Licenses Cannot Block Challenges to Patent Validity
Jul.18.2012 ITC Proposes Comprehensive Changes to its Rules of Practice and Procedure
Jul.13.2012 Sunbeam: Seventh Circuit Says That Rejection in Bankruptcy Does Not Vaporize a Trademark Licensee's Rights
Jun.18.2012 Patent Law Alert: Willful Infringement Requires a Threshold Judicial (Not a Jury) Finding of Objective Recklessness
Jun.15.2012 FTC Urges ITC to Deny Exclusion Orders for RAND-Encumbered Standard Essential Patent Holders
Jun.11.2012 Federal Circuit Rejects Common Sense Approach to Obviousness
Apr.17.2012 Federal Circuit Holds That Settlement Negotiations Are Not Privileged
Mar.14.2012 DOJ Prosecution of Chinese State-Owned Enterprise for Trade Secrets Theft Offers Lessons for U.S. Businesses
Jan.31.2012 New Jersey Adopts the Uniform Trade Secrets Act
Jan.30.2012 Circuit Court Reinforces That Neither Lack Of Novelty Nor Ability To Reverse Engineer Are Defenses To Trade Secret Misappropriation
Jan.17.2012 Crowell & Moring's Top Ten Copyright Cases of the Last Year
Dec.08.2011 The ITC Can Play A Critical Role In Combating International Trade Secret Theft
Nov.02.2011 What You Should Know About U.S. Copyright Office’s New White Paper on Mass Digitization of Copyrighted Works
Sep.22.2011 Sweeping U.S. Patent Law Changes - America Invents Act
Sep.20.2011 District Court Carves Out "Trade Secret Exception" to California Ban on Enforcement of Non-Compete Agreements
Jun.30.2011 Texas Supreme Court Expands Scope of Enforceable Non-Competes
Jun.29.2011 FTC Hosts Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights In Standard Setting: Tools to Prevent Patent Hold-Up
Jun.13.2011 Trade Secret Misappropriation and Non-Competes Across (California) State Lines: What Law Governs?
Apr.04.2011 USPTO Announces Prioritized Examination for One Year Prosecution Available May 4th
Feb.04.2011 Crowell & Moring's Top Ten Copyright Cases of the Last Year
Jan.12.2011 Retailers With Websites Containing Store Locator Function Sued In Series of Patent Lawsuits
Sep.02.2010 Federal Circuit's En Banc Princo Decision Limits Patent Misuse Doctrine
Aug.04.2010 FTC Settles Charges That Intel Violated Section 5 of the FTC Act
Jun.28.2010 Supreme Court's Bilski Decision: Business Method Patents Survive, at Least for Now
May.03.2010 Second Circuit Wants Full Court Review of Reverse Exclusionary Settlement Payments
Dec.16.2009 Federal Trade Commission Charges Intel With Anticompetitive Conduct; Commits to Expedited Administrative Trial and Decision
Nov.24.2009 European Commission Closes Qualcomm Investigation
Jul.08.2009 European Commission Publishes Final Report in Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry and Opens Formal Proceedings against Patent Settlements
Jun.11.2009 Protecting Your Trademark on Facebook
May.14.2009 European Commission imposes record € 1.06 billion antitrust fine on Intel
Feb.27.2009 Federal Circuit Affirms Extension of The 30 Month Hatch-Waxman Stay Preventing FDA Approval of Generic Version of Evista
Aug.25.2008 Patent Application Process Must Be Compliant with U.S. Export Controls
Aug.11.2008 California Supreme Court Leaves Intact Broad Prohibitions On Enforceability Of Non-compete Agreements
Apr.01.2008 Judge Upholds Smithkline's Challenge To USPTO Continuation Rules
Oct.25.2007 New TTAB Rules Go Into Effect November 1
Sep.18.2007 Federal Circuit Raises the Bar for Proving Willful Infringement, and Provides for Protection of Trial Counsel Communications and Work Product From Discovery -- Great News for Accused Infringers
Aug.22.2007 Controversial New Continuation And Examination Support Document Rules Are Effective November 1, 2007
May.16.2007 Post-KSR Patent Prosecution “Survival Guide”
May.01.2007 US Supreme Court Makes it Easier to Find Patents Obvious
Jan.29.2007 MedImmune's Impact May Be Greater Than Many Suspect
Dec.19.2006 Supreme Court Signals Shift in Obviousness Standard