Can Employees’ Social Media Contacts be Considered Company Trade Secrets?
January 23, 2019While it has been established by many courts that a customer list may constitute a protectable trade secret, the question of whether a former employee’s maintenance of social media contacts constitutes misappropriation of trade secrets is a relatively new question that has come before the courts in the past few y…
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How to Challenge the Validity of a Patent
January 21, 2019Created by the America Invents Act (AIA) in 2012, a post grant review is a process for questioning the validity of a patent recently issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). It was created to make the patent validity challenge proceed more quickly than previous methods and is handled by the Patent Tr…
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What You Need to Know About Patent Infringement
October 30, 2018Patent infringement can be scary because patent infringement litigation is expensive and the outcome is uncertain. This is true whether you are the one being sued for infringing on another’s patent, or are suing someone else who has infringed on your patent. There are several ways that another person or company c…
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