One of the unique aspects to trade secrets law in California is the requirement that plaintiffs identify stolen trade secrets with a certain measure of “reasonable particularity” before they can obtain defendants’

Cincinnati Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips has won three Gold Gloves, but there is a legal issue surrounding the gold-trimmed glove that he actually wears on the field. The entire name of the annual honor, bestowed upon players voted by the league’s managers to have superior fielding skills ...

In January, public outcry led to both the Senate and House Judiciary Committees canceling action on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). Both of these bills were intended to make it more difficult for websites to sell or distribute pirated copyrighte...

One of the purposes of unfair competition law is to prevent consumers from being misled by deceptive advertising. California’s Unfair Competition Law specifically references part of the state’s Business an...

When people think of trade secrets in business, the secret formula for Coca Cola or Colonel Sander’s recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken come to mind as examples. How do you know if your business owns...

While the $4.7 million a judge awarded Gucci America fell far short of the $221 million the Italian luxury goods group had been seeking in a trademark infringement case against Guess, the opinion from US District Judge Shira Scheindlin may have still set important precedents for future lawsuits i...

Companies can learn a lot from the Massachusetts property firm that was recently forced to pay $15,000 to the state Attorney General’s office after a company laptop was stolen. The Social Security numbers and other personal information of 621 people doing business with the firm was on a laptop th...

A list of customers may contain extremely valuable information that is not available to the public. However, the defendants in the heavily-litigated area of trade secrets law will claim that such lists are a collection of contact information that could just as easily be obtained from the internet...

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 criminalizes technologies designed to get around copyright protection measures, but it also provides a safe harbor for internet service providers (ISPs). When it comes to copyright circumvention, the DMCA has numerous exceptions. While technolog...

Companies have many concerns these days when it comes to allowing employees to surf the web and use social media sites at work. Such activities can expose the businesses to malware attacks or make confidential company information available to everyone. Companies could try to limit these activitie...