The transition period for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union ends on December 31, 2020, the Exit Date. This has implications for European trademarks and applications for which [...]
If your company is collecting personal data about California residents and meets ONE of the following criteria, it must be compliant with this new law. Does your company: Have $25 million in [...]
The California Consumer Privacy Act goes into effect on January 1, 2020. This legislation will have a far-reaching impact on companies that do business with California residents. Similar to the [...]
Has a customer ever asked you to use construction drawings from another job? Or have you found out that another contractor was using your drawings? This can be a very frustrating situation – and [...]
Many US businesses have avoided addressing compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which took effect May 25, 2018. This is typically based on erroneous conclusions such as: [...]
On September 7, 2017, Equifax Inc. announced that it had experienced a security breach of approximately 143 million US consumers’ private data, including names, Social Security Numbers, [...]
President Obama recently signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act into law. The bill raises trade secret protection to a federal cause of action and attempts to create more consistent protection for [...]
Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions: Have We Finally Hit Bottom?
In Corporate Issues PostedRecent court decisions have severely eroded the protectability of computer-implemented inventions. These decisions essentially hold that the mere implementation of a mental or otherwise known [...]
