“Twitter is threatening to sue Meta after the release and rapid popularity of its new app Threads. Alex Spiro, an attorney for Twitter owner Elon Musk, sent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter Wednesday accusing the company of engaging in “systematic, willful and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and Read more
“Gerald E. Groff is a devout evangelical Christian and former missionary who settled into a job with the U.S. Postal Service in 2012 after years of overseas religious work. “Sometimes you just have to take the job that comes along,” he told an interviewer. One benefit, from his perspective, was Read more
“As we start to come out of the pandemic, many businesses are deciding to embrace remote workforces on a more permanent basis for a variety of reasons, including cost saving, increased talent pool, and employee satisfaction. However, maintaining a remote workforce also presents the challenge of navigating various state and Read more
“. The Affirmative Defense of Prosecution Laches Wednesday, March 29, 2023 The Summary Modern U.S. Patent Law provides a patentee with a right to exclude others from practicing an invention for twenty years from the earliest priority date. Is it possible that a company could today infringe a U.S. patent Read more
“The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a parody dog toy called “Bad Spaniels” is entitled to protection from trademark infringement and dilution-by-tarnishment claims by Jack Daniel’s Properties Inc. The Supreme Court agreed Nov. 21 to review a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Read more
“If 40 states have implemented an ethical duty of competence in technology, why aren’t lawyers completely technologically competent? That’s a question Kenton Brice, the director of technology innovation at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, posed to the audience Thursday at ABA Techshow 2023. Brice, who moderated a panel Read more
“The founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX is facing criminal and civil securities charges in connection with an alleged $1.8 billion fraud for touting FTX Trading as a safe platform for crypto asset trading while diverting investor money to his privately held hedge fund. FTX founder and CEO Samuel Bankman-Fried was Read more
“A Florida woman has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the Kraft Heinz Foods Co. misled consumers when it claimed that its Velveeta Shells & Cheese product is “ready in 3.5 minutes.” The Nov. 18 would-be class actionsays the 3.5 minutes represents the time to microwave the product, which is Read more
“Lawyers often have to deal with an incredible amount of material and documents, spanning many rooms and filling countless boxes. What lawyers once did by hand, such as identifying privileged materials that should not be disclosed to the other side, can now be done with the help of sophisticated technology. Read more
“Lawyers who copy their clients on emails and other forms of electronic communications when messaging a lawyer representing someone in the same matter have given implied consent to receiving a “reply all” response back from the recipient counsel, absent special circumstances, according to a new ethics opinion from the ABA. Read more