Intellectual Property Law

Jorda on : What is and What is not a Trade Secret
From the definitions recited before, it is possible to glean what is a trade secret and what is not a trade secret. On a primal level a trade secret is simply information and knowledge...

Federalizing Trade Secret Law: A Cause Whose Time Has Come/Patent/Trade Secret Complementariness -- No. 20
In the U.S. we have civil causes of action under federal law for infringement of patents, copyrights and trademarks. Alas, we do not have a federal civil cause of action for trade secret misappropriation! But we need one badly! According to Mark Halligan, the main reason for the "step-child treatment of trade secrets" is the fact that "trade secrets did not find a solid home in intellectual property law" as a property right until the seminal Supreme Court decisions in Kewanee Oil Co...

FBI Rolls Out Economic Espionage Awareness Programs Across US
MLive.com is reporting on the FBI's current initiative in heightening trade secret theft awareness across the business sectors of the United States. Raising awareness among business leaders and educators is key to the success of the program, FBI officials say...

Friday Historical Vault: Mother Jones Says CIA Prepared to Aid in Trade Secret Theft for American Companies
Well, it's Friday and there's little going on in the trade secrets world. That being the case, we thought we'd link you in to a fascinating article from 1994 in which Mother Jones contributor Robert Dreyfuss suggests that the CIA was gearing up to assist private businesses to engage in economic espionage...

Did Bill Belichick and the Patriots' Video Guy Violate the Economic Espionage Act
Did any of you know that The Sporting News has a legal consultant? Well, we didn't either. His name is Mike Florio and he's just posted a fascinating idea on the blog - that the Spygate actions of New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick may have violated the Economic Espionage Act of 1996...

Turnabout Fair Play Americans Stealing Russian Oil Trade Secrets
A man-bites-dog story from the Times of India, concerning economic espionage with the Americans and British allegedly stealing Russian trade secrets. Russia's internal security agency announced the arrest of two Russian-Americans for their alleged involvement in economic espionage, a day after the raids on the offices of British oil major BP...

Trade Secrets
Former execs are hit with doctrine of inevitable disclosure.

Privacy Protection Act 42 USC 21A
Federal Newsroom Law

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
Bailout Bill HR124

Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007
Strengthens examination requirements of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

Truth In Lending Act
Consumer Loans and Consumer Credit Protection Act

Victoria's Secret
Bras may have caused Woman's Itching, Rash and Welts

Critical Alarm Goes Unheard
Nurse and agency to pay undisclosed settlement in wrongful death lawsuit.

Bayer CropScience AG
alleging farmers suffered economic losses after Bayer's biotech Liberty Link rice was released into the food supply and countries banned US rice.

Trade Secrets
Razorsight agreed to pay $4.5 million settlement in infringement lawsuit.

Newspaper Publisher
Star Tribune must pay St. Paul Pioneer Press a $3.8 million trade secrets act violations settlement.

imbee Data Collection
Industrious Kid, Inc. pays $130,000 civil penalty for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.