Trademarks are often among the most important and valuable assets of a business. A distinctive trademark allows a business to build public goodwill and brand reputation in the goods or services it sells. A trademark is any word, name, slogan or symbol (or any combination thereof) that identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods […]
Blog
On October 1, 2018, lost in the deserved fanfare that the passing of the Massachusetts Noncompetition Agreement Act garnered, Massachusetts also became the second-to-last state to adopt the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA) (only New York remains). In doing so, Massachusetts statutorily updated both its 80-year-old definition of “trade secret” and legal remedies for misappropriation […]
by James L. Rudolph The interpretation of laws applicable to software protection can be more complicated than the software itself. But for software developers, there are some basic considerations to take into account when deciding how to protect your software.
Most Americans would be outraged by a law requiring that certain library books be taken off the shelves and burned. How, then, would those same Americans react to a law that said: “The books can stay on the shelves, but destroy their index cards”? That, many argue, is what Europe’s highest legal authority, the Court […]
