By Mike Hatcher | March 2, 2018
Businesses seek opinions of counsel in the Intellectual Property area for various reasons, such as trademark clearance or for guidance on patent threats.…
By Harper Batts and Chris Ponder | February 20, 2018
In Part One of our article, we focused on lessons gleaned from the Waymo v. Uber trial on how to be better prepared to protect a company's trade secrets. In this part, we focus on lessons from the trial that can help companies litigating trade secrets claims, as a plaintiff or a defendant.
By Karen L. Dunn and Meredith R. Dearborn | February 15, 2018
Waymo v. Uber—the recent battle royale over the future of self-driving car technology—ended in a settlement between the parties, but an important legal question remains decidedly unsettled. In the words of Judge William H. Alsup, who presided over the case: “Is an engineer really supposed to get a frontal lobotomy before they go to the next job?”
By Ross Todd | February 14, 2018
According to the complaint, the former BD employees had access to "technical specifications, source code, and designs," and then downloaded thousands of confidential files prior to leaving the company.
By Chris Ponder and Harper Batts | February 13, 2018
Review lessons that companies and attorneys can take away from the Uber dispute and other situations, as to how best protect their trade secrets.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Richard Raysman and Peter Brown | February 9, 2018
In their Privacy Matters column, Richard Raysman and Peter Brown discuss the decision in 'Broker Genius v. Zalta', in which the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held that the inconspicuous language of the licensor's terms of use, coupled with its routine and frequent disclosure of the entire architecture of the user interface of the software supposedly protectable as a trade secret, precluded licensor's successful motion for injunctive relief for trade secret misappropriation.
By Ross Todd | Caroline Spiezio | February 9, 2018
Less than a week into their blockbuster trade secret showdown, Waymo and Uber have settled their dispute over driverless car technology.
By Ross Todd | February 8, 2018
On Thursday afternoon, the fourth day of the high-profile trade secrets showdown between Waymo and Uber, the professional differences between lawyers and engineers were on stark display.
By Michael P. Shepherd | February 8, 2018
The raw statistics of affirmed Section 101 rejections may make appealing a Section 101 rejection seem like somewhat of a hopeless endeavor. But in reality, the chances of successful a Section 101 appeal can be significantly increased with the right preparation
By Ross Todd | February 7, 2018
With the former Uber CEO on the stand, Waymo's lawyer got Michael Douglas' iconic "greed is good" speech from the movie "Wall Street" into evidence.
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