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Beware perpetual (or even long-term) confidentiality obligations in employee NDAs
A perpetual (or even long-term) confidentiality obligation can kill employment NDAs Consider the following all-too-common scenario: employee leaks valuable company information to a competitor and is fired. Company then sues the employee for breach of an...
I do not consent to you contacting my client
Sean Hogle Partner, Rooney Nimmo PC San Francisco In the US, a lawyer may not converse with or even contact a person that the lawyer knows is represented (or whose employer is represented) by counsel regarding the subject matter of the representation-unless such...
Fair Use of Application Programming Interfaces after Oracle v. Google
(First published in Redline (redline.net) on 31 July 18. Copyright 2018 Sean Hogle, licensed under CC-BY-2.0. Sean practices in the areas of technology, intellectual property, and commercial law, and is the CEO and founder of Redline (redline.net), an exclusive...
Software Copyright and Innovation after Oracle v. Google
(First published in the Winter 2015 edition of New Matter, the quarterly journal of the Intellectual Property Section of the California Lawyers Association. Copyright 2015 Sean Hogle, licensed under CC-BY-2.0. Sean practices in the areas of technology, intellectual...