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Copyright infringement action against former employees fails to present issues of fact for jury

  • Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 22 2013

This action by a business against former employees contained a copyright claim and a plethora of state law claims relating to a software program for

Unfair competition claim based on copyright infringement preempted by Copyright Act

  • Jackson Lewis LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 1 2013

A federal court in California has held that a state law claim that a competitor engaged in unfair competition by creating infringing work after

Termination of employee refusing to perform copyright infringement was illegal

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 29 2013

The Texas Court of Appeals for the Second District found that an employee was wrongfully terminated from an architecture firm when he refused to

Employer owns jewellery design made by employee designer

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • February 18 2013

In a much-anticipated decision the Paris Court of Appeal ruled on the author rights of designs for jewellery created by an employee designer during

Copyright and collaboration

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 13 2012

Like many large organisations, education institutions often enter into a variety of collaborative agreements

Lessons in copyright ownership: Harmony v. Foss, 2012 FCA 226

  • Bull Housser & Tupper LLP
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  • Canada
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  • November 29 2012

The recent decision of the Federal Court of Appeal in Harmony Consulting v. G.A. Foss Transport, 2012 FCA 226, once again underlines the importance of understandingand properly recordingthe ownership of copyright in software created by employees and independent contractors

Ownership of jewelry design made by employee designer lies with employer

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • October 25 2012

In a much-anticipated decision, the Paris Court of Appeal ruled on the author rights of designs for jewelry created by an employee designer during his employment for the jewelry Van Cleef & Arpels

US Auto Parts Network Inc. v. Parts Geek LLC

  • Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 5 2012

In US Auto Parts Network Inc. v. Parts Geek LLC, Nos. 1056194, 1056129, 2012 WL 3764704 (9th Cir. Aug. 31, 2012), the Ninth Circuit ruled that the modifications to a computer program made by an employee were owned by the employer pursuant to the “work for hire” doctrine

It's developed in work hours with the employer's resources - can the employee still own copyright?

  • Clayton Utz
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • August 16 2012

Employers should ensure employment agreements are clear in providing that inventions or creations using information belonging to an employer belong to the employer

Court finds Texas company stole trade secrets after hiring employee from competitor

  • Littler Mendelson
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 30 2012

In late May, after a three-week trial, a Houston federal court jury ruled M3 Technology, Inc. had misappropriated trade secrets from innovative engineering software provider AspenTechnology, Inc., infringed copyrights, and illicitly interfered with AspenTech’s non-compete agreement with a former employee, an expert on refinery efficiency and head of AspenTech’s R&D Division

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