Ningling Wang and Ming-Tao Yang discuss the American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC) vs. Sinovel Wind Group Co. case and the challenges American companies face in protecting key intellectual property rights in foreign countries | Podcast *

China, USA - May 30 2012
American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC) has engaged in unprecedented contract, copyright, and trade secret actions in several Chinese courts with its once largest customer in China, Sinovel Wind Group Co.

Co-authors: Ningling Wang.

Podcast: Rob McCauley and Ming Yang discuss the impact of cloud, mobile, and social technologies on trade secret law *

USA - December 5 2011
Cloud computing, mobile technology, and online social networking are having a dramatic impact on business productivity and transforming how people are communicating and exchanging information. 

Co-authors: Robert F. McCauley III.

Covenant not to sue exhausted patent rights against downstream customer and estopped enforcement of later-issued, broader patent *

USA - June 4 2009
In TransCore, LP v. Electronic Transaction Consultants Corp., No. 08-1430 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 8, 2009), the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of SJ that patent infringement claims were barred by patent exhaustion, implied license, and legal estoppel in view of a settlement agreement between the patentee and the supplier of the accused products.