22 Aug, 2024 FTC Ban on Non-Competes On Hold By Eugene Mar Three lawsuits have challenged the FTC's authority to implement a nationwide ban on non-competes. Two of those lawsuits have succeeded...
21 Aug, 2024 $2B Trade Secret Verdict Overturned on Causation By Eugene Mar This case in Virginia caught a lot of attention because Appian won a $2 billion verdict last year. The appeals court overturned the...
14 Aug, 2024 Invention is "on sale" even if it's a secret? By Eugene Mar In a case involving the secret formula used to make the sweetener for Coke Zero, the manufacturer of the sweetener sought to patent the...
18 Jul, 2024 One Judge’s Mission To Unearth Who Is Behind These Patent Trolls By Eugene Mar Judge Colm Connolly in the District of Delaware has been pressing many of the patent trolls (LLCs that only own 1 asset - the asserted...
03 Jul, 2024 Does using patents as loan collateral still create standing issues? By Eugene Mar Traditionally, the Federal Circuit had been very strict that a plaintiff must own all the rights to a patent to have standing to bring a...
25 Jun, 2024 Is corporate separateness at risk? By Eugene Mar At first, many people jumped to the conclusion that this upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case threatens corporate separateness by putting...