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Protecting Confidential Intellectual Property in the Wake of the FTC’s “Final Rule” Against Non-Competition Provisions

As the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) implements “the final rule” banning non-competes, businesses with sensitive intellectual property (IP) must look to alternative measures to safeguard it. Despite ...
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Is Further Erosion of Intellectual Property on the Horizon? A Proposed Expansion of the Exemption Rule under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Suggests There Is

A proposed rule at the Copyright Office seeks to expand the exemptions available under Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to give those ...
Law

FTC's Noncompete Rule Unlikely to Survive Litigation, Say Antitrust, Intellectual Property Experts

The Federal Trade Commission's rule banning employers from imposing noncompete agreements on their workers is unlikely to prevail in litigation, competition and intellectual property experts said ...
Law

Rule changed, but is game different for licensing?

The U.S. Supreme Court's MedImmune decision was decried as potentially changing the balance of power in intellectual property law, by providing licensees a safe haven to avoid royalty and other ...