1/31/2023 10:14:00 PM Failures Are Valuable IP: Protect Your Startup’s Negative Trade Secrets By Eugene Mar Tom Pardini Technology companies and start-ups are familiar with protecting inventions with patents, and protecting their secret formulas, source...
1/27/2023 11:37:00 PM How To Avoid Allegations of Trade Secret Misappropriation in California By Eugene Mar Raven Quesenberry Download a PDF of this piece When departing a company, an executive, founder, or employee with access to trade secrets or confidential...
12/22/2022 11:37:54 PM What Recent Rulings in 'hiQ v. LinkedIn' and Other Cases Say About the Legality of Data Scraping By Alex Reese Raven Quesenberry LinkedIn obtained a permanent injunction on Dec. 6 in its six-year-old lawsuit against data scraping company hiQ Labs, which LinkedIn...
11/21/2022 6:08:00 PM California Extends Presumption of COVID-19 as Workers’ Compensation Injury and Modifies Notice Requirements for Potential Exposure By Holly Sutton In addition to AB 152 extending COVID-19 leave through December 31, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom has also signed into law two other...
11/10/2022 1:21:33 AM One Pending Supreme Court Case Could Change the Internet as We Know It: Gonzalez v. Google and Tech Platforms’ Liability By Erik Olson Raven Quesenberry The Supreme Court granted certiorari in Gonzalez v. Google, a high-stakes case appealed from the Ninth Circuit about the scope of...
11/2/2022 10:09:00 PM Technology Platforms and Developments in Antitrust Law By Alex Reese Alex Reese discusses "Technology Platforms and Developments in Antitrust Law." Technology platforms are digital marketplaces where...
7/12/2022 4:50:00 PM Caught in the Crossfire — How Will the War Exclusion Affect Commercial Policyholders? By Tyler Gerking The war exclusion has received a lot of attention over the past year, particularly since Russia invaded Ukraine in February....
6/8/2022 12:06:00 AM Platform Ecosystems: Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and Other Scraping Law Developments (Webinar) By Erik Olson Erik Olson and Stephanie Skaff discuss "Platform Ecosystems: Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and Other Scraping Law Developments." Web...
5/4/2022 11:35:00 PM Platform Ecosystems – The Landscape of US and EU Legislation (Webinar) By Nate Garhart Stephanie Skaff and Nate Garhart discuss "Platform Ecosystems – The Landscape of US and EU Legislation." Several new bills targeting...
4/25/2022 11:58:08 PM hiQ’s Groundbreaking Injunction Against LinkedIn Reaffirmed: Scraping of Publicly Available Data Likely Does Not Violate CFAA By Erik Olson Sushila Chanana The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed its prior decision, holding that LinkedIn could not block hiQ, a scraping...
8/30/2021 10:50:10 PM No Quarter: What Claims Doesn’t Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act Protect Platform Companies Against? By Nate Garhart Erik Olson Depending on what you read or who you talk to, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (47 U.S.C. § 230) (CDA) is either a tool of...
7/27/2021 8:16:00 PM SCOTUS Copyright Fair Use Decision: Google vs. Oracle Recap and Takeaways By Erik Olson Eugene Mar Eugene Mar and Erik Olson discuss "SCOTUS Copyright Fair Use Decision: Google vs. Oracle Recap and Takeaways." After more than a decade...