Worldwide: Intellectual Property

As announced on the USPTO website, as of June 30, 2012, there will be a daily limit of $49,999.99 for credit card accounts, but no daily limit for debit card accounts.

Modern history can be broken into several periods of technological revolutions that developed in different regions throughout the world.

In April 2007, the Supreme Court’s decision in KSR Int’l v. Teleflex Inc. heralded an important potential shift in the law of obviousness.

The Supreme Court of California held that it is a violation of California law for businesses to request and record a credit card holder’s ZIP code in connection with credit card transactions. Under California’s Song-Beverly Credit Card Act of 1971, businesses are prohibited from requesting that cardholders supply personal identification information in connection with credit card transactions.

In a case with major implications for retailers and marketers, the Supreme Court of California ruled on February 10, 2011 that state law prohibits businesses from requesting and recording ZIP codes from consumers prior to credit card transactions, including requests for use in marketing.

On March 11, 2011, the FTC announced that it had reached a settlement with the social networking site Twitter regarding privacy failures on the site to adequately safeguard user information, which led to two high-profile hacker attacks in 2009.

In July and August, the PTAB cancelled 957 (83.87%) instituted claims across 72 IPR and PGR Final Written Decisions, including decisions...

Patents grant property rights on new and useful inventions, allowing the patent holder to prevent others from using, making, or selling that invention without permission for a limited time.

Patents grant property rights on new and useful inventions, allowing the patent holder to prevent others from using, making, or selling that invention without permission for a limited time.

You are invited to listen to Episode 80 of Greenberg Traurig's Trade Secret Law Evolution Podcast, "Statute of Limitations, Scope of Permitted Trade Secret Use, and Reasonable Measures."

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit provided important guidance regarding pleading standards for claims under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) in Quintara Biosciences, Inc. v. Rufeng Bitztehc, Inc.

In the 1940s, the Allied codebreakers at Bletchley Park raced against time to crack the infamous Enigma machine. What seemed unbreakable turned out to be vulnerable—not because the machine itself was flawed, but because its operators made mistakes.