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A scandal that rocked the world half a decade ago is finally drawing to a close. UK Prime Minister’s former Director of Communications, Andy Coulson, was found guilty of conspiring to hack phones from 2000 to 2006 while he was the editor of News of the World, a subsidiary of News Corp. But News CorpContinue reading “Don’t Get Sued for Copyright Infringement Despite Fair Use”

Intellectual property (IP) is the untapped potential of a business that, if left unharnessed, is completely wasted, but when properly managed can be a goldmine. Yet time and again startups and entrepreneurs, despite having a basic understanding of IP, tend to avoid creating an effective IP strategy. An average startup with financial constraints will notContinue reading “Intellectual Property Best Practices: 10 Steps to Maximize Your IP”

I am very happy to say that everything went very smoothly for my first webinar yesterday. I introduced our guest presenter Nicole Druckrey, Partner at Quarles & Brady LLP, a law firm that “provides broad-based, national-level legal services.” She provided lots of valuable information in this presentation, and also answered quite a few audience-based questions,Continue reading “Webinar Recap: Nicole Druckrey on Trade Secrets”

 

Previously in our Intellectual Property (IP) Best Practices series, we introduced 10 steps to maximizing your IP. Today’s blog is the second in this series, and the first to begin discussing each of those steps in sequence. Please check back every Monday for the next part in this series. Enjoy! The big question that anyone runningContinue reading “IP Best Practices: Identifying Intellectual Property, Step 1”

Chances are you or someone you know has purchased and assembled furniture from IKEA. It’s a Herculean task to attempt solo, and if you undertake it with a friend or loved one, your relationship may not survive the strain. Those of us who have come out the other end of the building process sweaty andContinue reading “Blogging + IKEA = Intellectual Property Infringement”

Every month, Shay discusses some of the technical changes to our site in his Traklight Tech Talks blog. Last month saw the introduction of iframes. And today is an update on our most recent website enhancements. Be sure to stay updated with these updates by subscribing to our blog. Well, it’s that time again; timeContinue reading “Traklight Tech Talks: IP Vault Enhancements”

The stealing of trade secrets is such a big problem that the government has been going around in circles trying to fix the issue. With concerns made clear from the Obama Administration and attempts to use international diplomacy to stop trade secret hacks, Congress seems to finally be stepping up to provide more federal IPContinue reading “Proposed Defend Trade Secrets Act for Federal IP Protection”

Trade secret lawsuits are not uncommon, but a recent lawsuit has caught the attention of the mainstream media. Louis Vuitton North America has gone to court in New York, alleging that a former VP transferred sensitive files from her company laptop onto external storage devices before resigning to take a position with Coach, a luxuryContinue reading “Louis Vuitton Goes to Court with Lawsuit Over Trade Secrets”

The Washington professional football franchise has come under increasing scrutiny over the past few years for its continued use of the nickname “Redskins,” with critics deriding the use of a pejorative term as the team name and castigating team owner Dan Snyder’s unwillingness to even consider changing it.  A recent ruling by the U.S. PatentContinue reading “Patent Office Revokes Trademark Protection for Redskins Name”