Q&A with Roger Cukras, partner with law firm Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti LLP, on how he achieved great results for a client facing millions of dollars in tax claims....more
No one wants to be on your board....more
Many startups will either forego or postpone buying insurance. But this is usually a mistake....more
If 97 companies, most of them Valley leaders, can join a 9th Circuit brief and 160 companies can jointly speak publicly against a clearly discriminatory ban, why can’t their lawyers? ...more
Or we can do nothing....more
As legislators grapple with creating legislation intended to bring virtual currencies, such as bitcoin, within the scope of anti-money laundering regulations, the vulnerability of Bitcoin exchanges to theft and other cyber...more
We spoke recently with Ober|Kaler pro bono coordinator Paul Sugar about the law firm's long-running partnership with Maryland's community-based program Project HEAL (Health, Education, Advocacy, and Law) and the wide range of...more
A quick look at the top 20 most followed topics on JD Supra over the last thirty days. Can you guess what's the hottest topic right now?...more
In the Supreme Court's Aereo ruling, at least one of the things not decided was whether a cloud storage platform, such as Dropbox or iCloud, would run afoul of the copyright laws’ protection of the “public performance” right...more
Citing Aereo’s “overwhelming likeness to the cable companies targeted by the 1976 amendments”, the majority found that Aero is not just an equipment supplier and that it “performs” the broadcasted works....more
In light of recent lawsuits by the EEOC against companies with overly broad or misleading severance agreements, we asked our contributors: What exactly is a successful separation agreement between employer and employee?...more
One author's view on how to determine the answer that may surprise you....more
How do you prove someone is breaking the law, if the technology they are using to do so didn’t even exist when the law was written?...more
A central theme of several Justices’ comments and questions was how a decision finding Aereo’s business to involve public performance could affect Dropbox or other cloud storage providers where consumers store performance...more
Will forward-publishing your patent help or hurt you in the long run? Sonos’ announcement this week that they will forward-publish patent applications has created quite a debate in the patent realm. Ideas are the...more
Forward-publishing patents might be a case of good PR practice meeting good patent practice. On the other hand, Sonos might be onto something....more
Sonos' policy to forward-publish its patents seems to be more a calculated public relations move with some strategic upside and limited downside....more
Forward-publication of patent applications can effectively give third party submitters the ability to make a submission against your application months in advance of publication by the USPTO....more
Patents are a tool to discourage inventors to keep trade secrets, by trading public disclosure for a limited monopoly. Forward-publishing an application is a deliberate embrace of this philosophy, eliminating even the...more
Big data is only going to get bigger, my friends....more
Who ultimately owns the data? How will your data be shared? Wouldn’t health insurance companies love access to your fit monitor data to set their premiums?...more
Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan alleging that nearly all of the exchanges’ 850,000 bitcoins worth half-a-billon dollars had been looted by hackers. Customers were left asking whether any of their bitcoins are...more
All real money arises out of market transactions in a process that is unplanned and decentralized....more
Interesting question, but life is never easy, and digital currency brings its own set of challenges...more
Quentin Tarantino's case could ultimately turn on one little word at the end of Gawker's story...more