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The Mangrove Partners Master Fund Ltd. is the latest hedge fund to get into the PTAB/short-sell stock game, successfully petitioning the Board to institute IPRs on two network security patents.

Just in case you needed another reason to avoid filing a Motion to Amend in your IPR, consider this.

Late last month, the Defend Trade Secrets Act was filed; the bill would create a federal trade secrets cause of action for civil litigants.

I am attending the INTA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, and a number of people are talking about the "trademark bully" report released a few weeks ago by the Department of Commerce.

Trademark and Copyright Law Blog author Catherine Muyl, alongside fellow Foley Hoag attorneys Christina G. Hioureas and Mélida N. Hodgson, have released a new publication discussing the potential legal implications arising from Brexit, including the impact on patents, trademarks and copyrights. You can access a free copy here.

On October 3, 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court declined a request to grant certiorari in Vernor v. Autodesk.

In its recent decision Samsung Display Co. v. Funai Electric Co. (IPR 2015-01452), the PTAB declined to institute an IPR because the claims were indefinite.

On October 1, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an advisory to alert companies that might pay ransomware attackers of the potential sanctions risks for facilitating ransomware payments.

On August 4, 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") released a Withhold Release Order ("WRO") on tuna and other seafood harvested by the Hangton No. 112, a Fijian flagged and owned longliner fishing vessel.

Sony’s unenviable status as the victim of the record theft of 77,000,000 individuals’ personal information underscores a reality that the on-line business community would like its army of customers to forget: it’s not just that the so-called "hackers" can be very good at what they do, it’s that the appointed guardians of legally protected personal information are not necessarily awake at the switch.

The passage of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was a seismic event in U.S. data privacy law. CCPA has an expansive, rights-based approach to privacy, ...

The passage of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was a seismic event in U.S. data privacy law.

Cybersecurity News & Notes – July 19, 2016.

Sometimes data breaches crop-up in the most unlikely of places. Last week we learned that the vendor that handles fish and hunting licenses for the states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington was hacked.

A recent settlement in a data breach case exemplifies how the government can go beyond a statutory scheme and use private industry standards to protect personal information and impose sanctions on violators.

Last week, the HHS Office of Inspector General released a damning report on FDA’s data security.

On May 11, 2016, President Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 ("DTSA") into law. Previously, companies could only bring misappropriation of trade secrets claims under state law.

In an article in today's New York Times, we get some real-life insight into the difficulties in responding to a data breach.