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 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 | Sep 9, 2019 | Media, Copyrights & the Internet
Sabety + associates, PLLC Advises on Trademark Liability Risk Arising from “Ad Injection” Technology. Another area that has been a hot topic for us lately is the use of competitors’ trademarks in keyword searches. A Federal Court in New York has noted that “Virtually...
by Ted Sabety | Jan 18, 2019 | International Patent Protection
Expect a surge of computer-related patents to issue due to relaxation of the prior standard for patentability. Jan. 7, 2019. In a significant development, USPTO has issued new guidelines for examining patent claims over computer process related inventions. The...
by Ted Sabety | Mar 27, 2018 | Media, Copyrights & the Internet
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 Appeals, Federal Circuit, reviewing the long record in this case in a 58-page opinion, concluded that Google’s copying was a...
