by Ted Sabety | Mar 23, 2020 | Data Security & Privacy
Ex-Google Engineer in Plea Agreement Over Federal Trade Secret Theft Charges – a Lesson in Trade Secret Protection. March 20, 2020, Federal prosecutors had charged Google’s senior self-driving car engineer with 33 counts of trade secret theft stemming from his...
by Ted Sabety | Mar 13, 2020 | Data Security & Privacy
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 secrets may lose their status, non-disclosure agreements may get breached and consumer data may get mishandled. Our...
by Ted Sabety | Mar 9, 2020 | Patent, Trademark & Copyright Litigation
February, 2020. The ongoing dispute between Google and Oracle over the Java computer language, now before the U.S. Supreme Court, has attracted the attention of the music publishing industry. The Songwriters’ Guild of America (SGA) filed an amicus brief before the US...
by Ted Sabety | Mar 9, 2020 | Patent, Trademark & Copyright Litigation
February, 2020. The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a finding of willful patent infringement against Apple where the willfulness was found to commence upon the jury verdict of infringement by the lower court. This finding was made despite Apple having a right to appeal...
by Ted Sabety | Jan 20, 2020 | Data Security & Privacy
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’s personal information by “businesses”. Loosely, a “business” is defined as an entity (and its affiliates) operating in...
