Suspected trade secret misappropriation presents both legal and operational challenges for all companies whose critical assets include intellectual property, including your company. It is rarely a contained issue. Once confidential information begins to circulate, its value can erode quickly, and the digital trail showing how that information moved can become fragmented or lost across devices, […]
Using Trademarks as Collateral for Financing
This blog is the twelfth installment in Finkel Law Group’s ongoing trademark law series. In earlier articles, we explored how to monetize trademarks through licensing and assignment. In this article, we examine a lesser-known but increasingly valuable strategy: Using your trademarks as collateral to secure financing. If your business owns one or more valuable trademarks, […]
Effectively Buying, Selling and Assigning Trademarks
This blog on Selling and Assigning Trademarks is the eleventh installment in Finkel Law Group’s trademark law series. In Blog 10, we examined how your company can license its trademarks to generate revenue while retaining ownership and control of your brand. In this blog, we focus on a different monetization strategy – selling trademarks outright […]
U.S. District Court for Northern District of California Enters Partial Summary Judgment Finding Using Copyrighted Material to Train AI Platforms is a Fair Use
Within a one-week period in June 2025, two federal judges in the Northern District of California entered summary judgment rulings on the application of the fair use defense under the Federal Copyright Act in connection with generative AI platforms’ use of copyrighted materials owned by several authors of works who did not give the AI […]
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Upholds Major Trade Secrets and Contract Damages Award in Lawsuit Stemming from Failed Merger Talks
A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the case of AMS-OSRAM USA Inc. v. Renesas Electronics America Inc. offers valuable lessons that can arise from failed merger transactions, and in particular liabilities that can arise when a party breaches its contractual confidentiality obligations. In particular, the case highlights […]
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