European Court of Justice Voids YouTube Music Copyright Infringement Claim
June 22, 2021. In a long-running case regarding Sarah Brightman’s album A Winter Symphony, the producer of the album had sued YouTube in Germany for...
June 28, 2021
Welcome to Sabety + associates, PLLC
Sabety+associates, PLLC is a technology law firm that understands innovative technology and electronic media businesses and the creative people that drive their success. Our law practice focuses on businesses whose primary assets are advanced technology, software, creative works, and digital media. Whether patents, trademarks or copyrights, IT infrastructure or electronic content distribution, Sabety +associates has done deals, conducted litigation or procured IP registrations for clients around the world.
Clients value our inter-disciplinary and strategic approach. Ted knows technology. We’ve been there.
Introduction to Sabety + associates
Our Presentations & Publications
View a list of presentations about IP law and business strategy that we have participated in. Presentations
View a list of professional articles written by Ted Sabety. Publications
U.S. Supreme Court Orders Review of U.S. Patent Office Reexamination Proceedings by USPTO Director In Order to Comply with the U.S. Constitution
June 21, 2021. In the case U.S. v. Arthrex et al., No. 19-1434, the U.S. Supreme Court splintered over the question of whether USPTO administrativ...
June 28, 2021
The U.S. Trade Representative Supports Waiving IP Protection for COVID-19 Vaccine Patents and Know-How—But Germany Says “Nein!”
May 5, 2021. The U.S. and Germany are party to the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights “TRIPS” agreement among major nations tha...
May 27, 2021
Google Wins its Long Dispute with Oracle over the Java Computer Language API
April 5, 2021. Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. 593 U.S. __(2021). We wrote last year about the ongoing legal battle between Google and Oracle ove...
April 5, 2021
U.S. Department of Justice Punts in its Review of the 80 year-old ASCAP and BMI Antitrust Consent Decrees
January, 2021. The DOJ has concluded that the ancient anti-trust consent decrees that permit ACSCAP, BMI and other Performing Rights Organizations to ...
January 21, 2021
Brexit May Affect Your EU Trademark Rights in the UK
January, 2021. Brexit May Affect Your EU Trademark Rights in the UK but Not Your EU Patents: As a result of “Brexit,” and effective as of ...
January 21, 2021
The Solar Winds Hack Crisis Lays Bare a Software Contracting Problem
January, 2021. The U.S. Government and major U.S. corporations are still figuring out the extent of the intrusion by Russian hackers into their system...
January 21, 2021
Sabety Advises Shopkeep During Acquisition by Lightspeed
November, 2020: Our client ShopKeep, Inc. agreed to be acquired by Lightspeed POS Inc. (NYSE: LSPD) (TSX: LSPD), a leading provider of cloud-based, ...
November 24, 2020
Sabety Fends Off Patent Troll
October, 2020. Sabety +associates, PLLC quickly fended off another mobile payment patent troll in the case Kwality IP vs. ShopKeep, Inc. 1:20-cv-0...
November 18, 2020
Zerobase Foundation Launches AI Based COVID Tracing App
November, 2020. Our pro-bono client, Zerobase Foundation, is launching their anonymous QR-code based COVID-19 infection tracing platform. We adv...
November 18, 2020
Can US Seize Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Patents?
August 27, 2020. Moderna, the Bio-tech firm famous for its progress on a COVID-19 vaccine, is reported to have never made the required disclosure of...
September 1, 2020
Highest EU Court Invalidates U.S. Data Privacy “Safe Harbor”
July 16, 2020. In 2016, the U.S. and the E.U. negotiated a “safe harbor” arrangement to protect in the U.S. the personal data of E.U. consume...
July 16, 2020
Trump’s Executive Order to Regulate Twitter: Going Nowhere
May 28, 2020. Trump’s Executive Order tasks the Federal Communications Commission to “clarify…and determine the circumstances” under whic...
May 29, 2020
USPTO GRANTS SOME DEADLINE EXTENSIONS ARISING FROM COVID-19 BUT IT IS RISKY MEDICINE
April 15, 2020. Under the authority Subsection 12004(a) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act enacted on March 27, 2020 t...
April 15, 2020
Blackbeard Strikes Again via the U.S. Supreme Court
Beware Software Vendors! Blackbeard Strikes Again via the U.S. Supreme Court. March 23, 2020, A videographer that documented the salvaging of Black...
March 27, 2020
Ex-Google Engineer in Plea Agreement Over Federal Trade Secret Theft Charges
Ex-Google Engineer in Plea Agreement Over Federal Trade Secret Theft Charges – a Lesson in Trade Secret Protection. March 20, 2020, Federal prosec...
March 23, 2020
EMPLOYEES WORKING FROM HOME RAISE IP AND DATA SECURITY LIABILITY ISSUES
The COVID-19 virus outbreak is causing many businesses to have employees work from home. There are IP and data security legal issues at play: trade ...
March 13, 2020
Music Publishing Weighs In on “Fair Use” in Computer Language Copyright Dispute
February, 2020. The ongoing dispute between Google and Oracle over the Java computer language, now before the U.S. Supreme Court, has attracted the ...
March 9, 2020
Willful Patent Infringement While Case is Under Appeal
February, 2020. The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a finding of willful patent infringement against Apple where the willfulness was found to commence up...
March 9, 2020
ARE YOU READY FOR THE CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT? (CCPA)
This is a new law that the California AG has stated will be enforced beginning July 1, 2020. The intent is to rein in use of California resident...
January 20, 2020
SABETY WINS A PATENT TROLL CASE USING ARCHIVED MATERIALS
The firm threatened a patent troll with sanction for bringing a frivolous patent infringement case in Scanning Technologies Innovations, LLC v. Shopke...
January 19, 2020
QUANTUM COMPUTING IS IN THE NEWS, BUT WHO HAS THE IP?
We have been asked this question several times. Below is the skinny, but we are finishing a white paper with more detail. If you want a copy of the wh...
January 18, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court Lets Stand Federal Circuit Decision Denying that a Discovered Diagnostic Correlation is Patentable Subject Matter
The denied petition by Athena was for restoration of its patent over using a newly discovered natural phenomenon: correlation between a particular a...
January 17, 2020
Ad Injection Technology Presents Trademark Liability Risks
Sabety + associates, PLLC Advises on Trademark Liability Risk Arising from “Ad Injection” Technology. Another area that has been a hot topic for u...
September 9, 2019
Unusual New Ruling in Music Copyright Law
Court in California Forgets about the Doctrine of Scènes à Faire in Copyright Law and finds Copyright in a Musical “Function.” In a bizarre ca...
September 9, 2019
Defending a Retail Website in an American Disabilities Act (ADA) Class Action Claim
Sabety + associates, PLLC Defeats an American Disabilities Act (ADA) Class Action Claim brought against a Retail Website. In the case, Traynor v. T...
August 12, 2019
Surge Of Computer-Related Patents To Issue
Expect a surge of computer-related patents to issue due to relaxation of the prior standard for patentability. Jan. 7, 2019. In a significant deve...
January 18, 2019
U.S. Senate Passes the Music Modernization Act
The Music Industry Reaches a Tortured Compromise as the U.S. Senate Passes the Music Modernization Act September 19, 2018 U.S. Senate Passes the Music...
September 19, 2018
The CLOUD Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act) Enacted
Trump Signs the CLOUD Act, Microsoft Complies and the U.S. Supreme Court Dismisses U.S. v. Microsoft, but the Forecast Remains Cloudy. April 17, 2018 ...
April 17, 2018
U.S. Court of Appeals Guts Google’s “Fair Use” Defense
U.S. Court of Appeals Guts Google’s “Fair Use” Defense against Oracle’s Copyright Infringement Claim March 27, 2018 The U.S. Court of Appeal...
March 27, 2018
The Court Rules Against The U.S. DOJ Antitrust Division
Public Performance Rights Organizations for songwriters, like ASCAP and BMI (PRO) beat back an effort from the U.S. Department of Justice December 19,...
December 19, 2017
FCC Repeals Net Neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted in favor of Chairman Pai’s decision to repeal the so-called “net neutrality” regulations Decem...
December 14, 2017
Threat to China regarding “theft” of U.S. Intellectual Property
Donald Trump’s Threat to China regarding “theft” of U.S. Intellectual Property May Be a Paper Tiger August 15, 2017. Donald Trump’s Threat...
August 15, 2017
US Supreme Court Takes a Whack at Patent Trolls
In the case TC Heartland v Kraft Foods, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed cases that permitted patent plaintiffs to sue companies for patent infringemen...
May 22, 2017
Fine Tuning of AIA “On Sale Bar” to Patentability
U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit Fine Tunes post – AIA “On Sale Bar” to Patentability: Helsinn v. Teva ( Fed. Cir. May 1, 2017) This ca...
May 12, 2017
Copyright Protection for “Separate” Decorative Artwork Embodied in a Garment
U.S. Supreme Court Affirms Copyright Protection for “Separate” Decorative Artwork Embodied in a Garment In the case Star Athletica, LLC v. Varsity...
March 31, 2017
Congress Does Away with FCC Data Privacy Regulations
Congress Does Away with FCC Data Privacy Regulations over Broadband Service Providers On March 23, 2017, Congress utilized its statutory “disapprova...
March 30, 2017
President-Elect Donald Trump May Have an Intellectual Property Policy
We have been asked about the election of Donald Trump to the office of the presidency and its impact on intellectual property. We have not found a for...
November 1, 2016
Knives are Out at the U.S. Copyright Office
It is reported that Maria Pallante, the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, was abruptly removed from her post on Friday. The removal process was repor...
October 1, 2016
Google’s Use of Android in certain Java “Declaring Code”
May 2016. Copyright Law. ORACLE v. GOOGLE (ND Ca). A Jury in the Federal District Court, ND California Finds Google’s Use of Android in certain Java...
May 27, 2016
Impediment For Copyright Owners Of User-Generated Online Content
There is a new impediment for copyright owners trying to police the unauthorized use of copyrighted works in user-generated online content, especially...
September 25, 2015
Computer-Related Patent Claims Breathed Back To Life
The judiciary has breathed life back into innumerable computer-related patent claims that were considered moribund. The U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal...
August 25, 2015
The Copyright Infringement Case Over The Song “Blurred Lines”
Are Pharrell and Thicke $7 Million dollars (plus legal fees) poorer and the heirs of Marvin Gaye that much richer (minus legal fees)? Don’t be so su...
March 14, 2015
Just Released New “Net Neutrality” Regulations
The Federal Communications Commission by a vote of 3-2 just released its new “net neutrality” regulations. The earth-shaking decision is that the ...
February 28, 2015
Strengthening Of U.S. Copyright Protections Of Computer Programs
The U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit has significantly strengthened U.S. copyright protection of computer programs. The Court reversed and reman...
May 9, 2014
Broadcast Digital Television Copy Protection Regulations
2003 Begins with a Flurry of Activity in the Copyright Protection Arena. Range of Media Industry Players File Comments on Broadcast Digital Televisio...
December 31, 2002
Digital Copyright Protection Battlefront Moves to the F.C.C.
Federal Communications Commission considers a mandate for a digital copyright protection scheme. On August 9, 2002, the Federal Communications Commiss...
August 30, 2002
This Is What We Offer You…
Fluency In Your Field
Getting up to speed fast maintains project momentum and saves clients time and money. Sabety+associates knows diverse industries, complex inventions, and emerging media.
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
Our legal strategies are designed to help clients attain business goals safely and efficiently. Our strategic approach encompasses patent, copyright, trade secret, and trademark law.
Our Network Of Professionals
We have years of experience successfully responding to the unique legal and business problems and opportunities associated with innovative businesses from start-up to Fortune 500.
Our Practice Areas
Worldwide Patent Procurement
We have procured patents over computer security inventions, nanostructured materials, media measurement software processes, fashion and consumer product innovations around the world. Click here to see a list of Patents we have procured around the world.
Worldwide Trademarks and Branding
We have represented the fashion industry and consumer product leaders around the world in their pursuit of establishing brand protection and expanding their global markets. Click here to see a list of Trademarks we have procured around the world.
Patent, Trademark & Copyright Litigation
We engage in a broad range of IP litigation, including asserting and defending against patent lawsuits including patent infringement lawsuits, disputes over trademarks, software licensing, copyright lawsuits, including music copyright lawsuits, and copyright infringement defense—even in the realm of fashion and fabric design which involves analyzing look and feel copyright infringement. Click here to see a list of IP litigations we have handled.
Media, Copyrights and the Internet
We have extensive experience representing clients in the intersection of Copyright law, Internet distribution technologies and encryption technologies. Click here to see a list of Copyrights we have procured.
Software Procurement and Licensing
Our business experience in the technology and electronic media fields intersects with the digital technology background to provide you with insight and ability to structure and negotiate software technology deals that raise issues involving patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret law, and further, privacy law, consumer protection, and data security.
Information Technology and Enterprise Software Procurement
Our experience with computer architecture and software informs the tactics of negotiating procurement contracts with major computer software, SAAS and IT services businesses.
Intellectual Property Strategy, Valuation and Sale
We have valued and sold IP. We have advised investors on the IP position of potential investments. We understand how financial algebra works, how risk affects valuation and how real options involving intellectual assets can provide value.
Technology Transactions
We use our in-depth technical knowledge to consider ranges of possible outcomes and risks in the fast-developing fields that it operates in.
We Will Work Hard For You…
First-Class IP Attorney
“Ted is a first-class IP attorney and general counsel responsible for all of my companies intellectual property work. He has fought hard to get patents awarded and has keen insight in regards to technology and patent law. I highly recommend Ted without reservation.” JH
A Knowledgeable Litigator
“Ted is smart, creative and is an aggressive knowledgeable litigator. We were sued for patent infringement and he quickly disposed of the case in a fast track summary judgment dismissal. I highly recommend him.” SV
Intelligent And Creative Attorney
“Ted is one of the most intelligent and creative attorneys I have ever had the pleasure to work with. I have worked with him extensively and his work is second to none. I can recommend him absolutely without reservation.” DL