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PTAB Snapshot – A Quarterly Report on Trends and New Precedent at the PTAB – Q2 2021
April.28.2021
Institution Rate, Discretionary Denials, and PTAB Estoppel
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Webinar Recording: The Latest PTAB Developments: New Challenges for Institution and New Risks for Patent Litigation
October.30.2020
Orrick and The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology hosted a webinar on recent developments in the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on October 27, 2020.
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Making a Federal Case Out of It: What Does the DTSA’s “Interstate Commerce” Limitation Mean?
by T. Vann Pearce Jr.
4 minute read | January.03.2018
We’ve blogged a lot about the Defend Trade Secrets Act in the roughly year-and-a-half period since the law was enacted.
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Worse Than a Toothache: Dental Executive Alleged to Have Misappropriated Proprietary Business Leads
by T. Vann Pearce Jr. and Tierra D. Piens
2 minute read | December.30.2017
Earlier this month, a Nashville, Tennessee company filed a federal lawsuit against its former employee alleging trade secrets misappropriation under ...
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“It’s a Free Country, Right?” Court Declines to Enjoin Ex-Free Country Ltd. Employees From Contacting Customers on Purloined Contact List
by T. Vann Pearce Jr. and Diana Szego Fassbender
4 minute read | January.21.2017
Within days of each other, your clothing company―Free Country Ltd.―loses two employees who decamp to a rival to set up a competing apparel line.
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Haven’t You Heard? Trade Secret Theft Can Occur in Unusual Ways
by T. Vann Pearce Jr.
3 minute read | March.16.2016
A recent development from the 3D printing world reminds us that threats of trade secret misappropriation are more varied than cyber-espionage or the ...
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Why the ITC Matters to You
by Bas de Blank and T. Vann Pearce Jr.
February.24.2015
Chinese companies who import products or own patents in the U.S. should understand intellectual property investigations at the International Trade ...
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DONATE, DON’T TELL? The Red Cross Says it Has Trade Secrets, Upsetting Activists
by Robert Shwarts and T. Vann Pearce Jr.
3 minute read | July.18.2014
Can a non-profit charity have trade secrets? The Red Cross thinks so. Its claim to trade secret protection over information related to Hurricane ...
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Orrick IP Lawyers Discuss 3D Printing Industry
May.15.2014
Intellectual property senior associate Vann Pearce and managing associate Chris Higgins discussed the legal issues impacting the emerging 3D printing ...
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The End is Just the Beginning: Enforcement of ITC Exclusion Orders
by Bas de Blank and T. Vann Pearce Jr.
November.14.2013
After a difficult and expensive ITC investigation results in an order excluding certain goods from importation into the U.S., both the patent owner ...
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District Court Judge Enjoins Standards-Essential Patent Owner From Enforcing ITC Exclusion Order
by T. Vann Pearce Jr. and Christopher Higgins
May.21.2013
In a growing body of legal authority regarding standards-essential patents (SEPs), Northern District of California Judge Ronald Whyte ruled Monday ...
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The Increasingly Lenient ITC Domestic Industry Requirement
by Bas de Blank and T. Vann Pearce Jr.
March.01.2013
The number of new ITC investigations has increased by more than 530% between 2000 and 2011. One reason may be the ITC’s increasingly broad view of ...