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How can I protect commercial ideasconcepts?

  • Clarkslegal LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 14 2013

Hollywood film-maker, James Cameron, recently won a lawsuit brought against him by a visual effects consultant, Gerald Morawski, alleging that the

2012 in review: key legal and regulatory developments

  • Allen & Gledhill LLP
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  • Singapore
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  • December 20 2012

This table provides an overview of the key developments in 2012 to date

BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

S.C. Supreme Court upholds confidentiality and “holdover” inventions assignment clauses in employment agreement

  • Nexsen Pruet
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  • USA
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  • December 18 2012

In its most significant employment law decision of 2012, Milliken & Co. v. Morin, the South Carolina Supreme Court addressed the enforceability of provisions in an employment agreement designed to protect the employer’s intellectual property from unfair competition

General Counsel update - legal guide edition 32

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Myanmar, Singapore, United Kingdom
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  • November 29 2012

A summary of major developments in key areas

Is continued employment enough to uphold invention assignment agreements?

  • Neal Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
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  • USA
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  • October 24 2012

It is a common misconception that employers automatically own the rights to intellectual property created by their employees

Paris court rules on ownership of employee’s designs

  • Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
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  • France
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  • October 22 2012

In a move aimed at clarifying ambiguity under French law, a Paris court recently rejected a designer’s claims against his former employer, ultra-lux jeweler Van Cleef & Arpels, that he was the true owner of the intellectual property behind numerous designs created for the company during his employment

Who owns my invention?

  • Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
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  • USA
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  • September 18 2012

In a July 12, 2012 order, Suffolk Superior Court Justice Lauriat dismissed a lawsuit by urologist Dr. Grocela, asserting that his employer’s Intellectual Property (IP) policy as applied to him was an unfair restraint on trade since his employer, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), claimed ownership of an invention that was not related to urology

K 12 education alerts: June 2011 - June 2012

  • Franczek Radelet PC
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  • USA
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  • August 1 2012

On Monday, June 13, 2011, Governor Quinn signed into law Senate Bill 7, the sweeping education reform bill that is the product of months of negotiations between a broad group of stakeholders that included representatives from both management and labor

Doing business and raising capital in Canada

  • Torys LLP
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  • Canada
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  • June 29 2012

We have prepared this Business Law Guide as a general overview of certain legal and business matters that may be relevant to a decision to establish or invest in a business in Canada