Intellectual Property Law and Copyright Laws

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.

On March 27, 2025, following up on the new Fintiv guidance from earlier in the week, the USPTO announced new Interim Processes for PTAB Workload Management...

Earlier this month, a federal district court denied the Outsourcing Facilities Association's preliminary injunction motion, which sought to preclude FDA from taking enforcement...

On March 24, 2025, the USPTO officially reinstated the Fintiv factors framework for discretionary denials in post-grant proceedings with parallel litigation...

This is part of a series of articles discussing recent orders of interest issued in patent cases by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

You are invited to listen to Episode 75 of Greenberg Traurig's Trade Secret Law Evolution Podcast, "New Cases on Statute of Limitations and Trade Secret Identification."

On March 13, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York dismissed a trade secret misappropriation claim under the Defend Trade Secrets Act ("DTSA")...