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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-01316 in the U.S. District Court, Delaware. Our technical analysis of their complaint showed that it was frivolous and...
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 advised Zerobase regarding Intellectual Property, including licensing and branding. The nonprofit Zerobase Foundation is...
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 its US Government DARPA funding on its 157 patents and patent applications over aspects of its mRNA platform. Under...
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. consumers, called the EU-US Privacy Shield. The E.U, Commission decided that the Privacy Shield arrangement was sufficient so that ...
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 which “a social media platform loses its liability protection” for editorial actions “not taken in good faith.” Communications...
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 the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has extended certain deadlines to file trademark and patent...
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 Blackbeard’s sunken vessel found off of the Carolina coast sued the State of North Carolina for copyright infringement...
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 prosecutors had charged Google’s senior self-driving car engineer with 33 counts of trade secret theft stemming from his...
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 secrets may lose their status, non-disclosure agreements may get breached and consumer data may get mishandled. Our...
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 attention of the music publishing industry. The Songwriters’ Guild of America (SGA) filed an amicus brief before the US...
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 upon the jury verdict of infringement by the lower court. This finding was made despite Apple having a right to appeal...
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’s personal information by “businesses”. Loosely, a “business” is defined as an entity (and its affiliates) operating in...