by Ted Sabety | Sep 1, 2020 | International Patent Protection
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 its US Government DARPA funding on its 157 patents and patent applications over aspects of its mRNA platform. Under...
by Ted Sabety | Jul 16, 2020 | Data Security & Privacy
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. consumers, called the EU-US Privacy Shield. The E.U, Commission decided that the Privacy Shield arrangement was sufficient so that ...
by Ted Sabety | May 29, 2020 | Media, Copyrights & the Internet
May 28, 2020. Trump’s Executive Order tasks the Federal Communications Commission to “clarify…and determine the circumstances” under which “a social media platform loses its liability protection” for editorial actions “not taken in good faith.” Communications...
by Ted Sabety | Apr 15, 2020 | International Patent Protection
April 15, 2020. Under the authority Subsection 12004(a) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act enacted on March 27, 2020 the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has extended certain deadlines to file trademark and patent...
by Ted Sabety | Mar 27, 2020 | Media, Copyrights & the Internet
Beware Software Vendors! Blackbeard Strikes Again via the U.S. Supreme Court. March 23, 2020, A videographer that documented the salvaging of Blackbeard’s sunken vessel found off of the Carolina coast sued the State of North Carolina for copyright infringement...
