Not only would the WMA abolish covenants not to compete nationwide, outside of the extremely narrow exceptions highlighted above, but it would also provide the Department of Labor (DOL) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with broad enforcement power. [read post]

You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com] Highlights this week included:German Federal Constitutional Court: unauthorised government surveillance of personal computers breaches individual’s right to privacy: (Catch Us If You Can!!!) [read post]

§ 230 wasn't a standalone statute: It was section 509 of the Communications Decency Act, the Act that in turn formed Title V of Telecommunications Act of 1996.[13] True to its name, the Telecommunications Act dealt with a wide range of telecommunications technology, mostly the familiar media of telephone communications, broadcast television, and cable television, but also the then-new medium of Internet technology. [read post]

, (Daily Dose of IP), 26 August: WIPO symposium on IP and multilateral agreements – Geneva: (IPKat), 11-12 September: US LSI: 4th annual conference on ‘Current issues in complex IP licensing’ – Philadelphia: (Patent Docs), 11 September/15 October: PLI seminar on developments in pharmaceutical and biotech patent law – New York/San Francisco: (Patent Docs), 15-16 September: UniForum & SAIIPL domain name ADR workshop – Centurion (South… [read post]

In SOCAN v CAIP [2004] 2 SCR 427 the Supreme Court applied the real and substantial connection test to hold that the Copyright Act right of communication to the public can be infringed if there is a sufficient connection between this country and the communication in question. [read post]