Nicole D Galli

June 19, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

If you hadn't gotten that message, articles have been legion since the advent of COVID-19 about how businesses need to take steps during this time of widespread remote work to enhance their trade secret protection efforts.

By Nicole D. Galli

9 minute read

April 22, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

Businesses have adapted quickly to subdue the spread of COVID-19 and "flatten the curve," adopting "work from home" policies and other social distancing measures. Though many businesses continue to operate, for many it is not "business as usual."

By Nicole D. Galli and Shoshana Mahon

11 minute read

February 21, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

So how do we stem what is clearly a rising tide of trade secrets disputes and actual and potential loss? If you or your clients haven't been thinking about enhanced trade secret protection, you are behind the times.

By Nicole D. Galli

10 minute read

October 22, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

Should a company try to identify all of its trade secrets as part of its ordinary course of business? Or should a detailed identification wait until misappropriation and enforcement? In my view, neither of these extremes are satisfactory—and both grossly oversimplify the options.

By Nicole D. Galli

8 minute read

September 13, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

Trade dress is a kind of trademark that protects the overall look and design of products and packaging. The outer reaches of trade dress have always been unclear. Now that we are in the digital age, questions have been raised about the trade dress of websites and apps.

By Nicole D. Galli

8 minute read

June 18, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

In recent years, one of the most important and controversial developments in U.S. patent law relates to the standard for whether an invention is “patent eligible,” or in other words, whether an invention falls within the scope of subject matter that is capable of being patented.

By Nicole D. Galli

10 minute read

March 19, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

These top three areas of risk include: the absence of an IP strategy; failure to protect trade secrets; and relying on business people or lawyers who are not IP litigators to send out cease and desist letters.

By Nicole D. Galli

12 minute read

February 20, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

Each form of intellectual property (IP) protection—trademarks, trade dress, copyrights, design and utility patents and trade secrets—has an important role to play in protecting brands and innovation in the food and beverage industry.

By Nicole D. Galli

9 minute read

January 09, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

As a litigator for over 25 years, I have handled a number of international and other complex commercial arbitrations. In each of those, I was typically the only woman in the room—not only among counsel representing the parties (and the clients) but also the arbitrators.

By Nicole D. Galli

9 minute read

October 09, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

In recent years, there has been extensive discussion in the tech transfer and entrepreneurial communities about bridging the gap between the universities and other research institutions that are generating new research and the entrepreneurial and commercial interests that might take that research and develop new products.

By Nicole D. Galli and Amanda Miller

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