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California Significantly Expands Privacy Breach Notification Law

September 22nd, 2011
Data Security-Privacy

California Significantly Expands Privacy Breach Notification Law

Alexander P. Woollcott

California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law an amendment to California’s landmark data security breach notification law (Senate Bill No. 1386), first enacted in 2003. The original law, S.B. 1386, requires companies doing business with California residents to provide notice to the residents of any actual or suspected security breach involving unencrypted personal information or data of the residents that had been collected and maintained by the company.

The amendment to S.B. 1386 (Senate Bill No. 24) significantly broadens the protection given to California residents by imposing additional obligations on companies that

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President Obama Signs Patent Reform Bill

September 19th, 2011
Patents/IP

On September 16, 2011, President Obama signed H.R. 1249, the “Leahy-Smith America Invents Act” (AIA). The AIA was passed by the U.S. Senate on September 8, 2011, without any further amendments to the House version of the law. This “patent reform” bill will put into effect several profound changes in U.S. patent laws during the next year. The changes will occur both in the front-end stage of filing and prosecuting patents, as well as the post-grant stage after patents have been issued and are in the enforcement / licensing / litigation stage. Foremost is a conceptual change of the U.S.

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Annual Tax, Legal & Accounting Update

September 14th, 2011
MMM Tech Law Video Channel

The following video is from the January 2011 Technology Executives Roundtable panel featuring panelists Wayne Reid, Frazier & Deeter, LLC; Seth McDaniel, Frazier & Deeter, LLC; Jason D’Cruz, Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP; Scott Allen, Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP and moderated by David Calhoun of Morris, Manning & Martin.

 

Special thanks the Technology Executive Roundtable and Arketi Group for sharing this video.

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Part 2: Tom Noonan Interview

September 13th, 2011
Industry Spotlight, MMM Tech Perspectives
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Tom Noonan has been a leader in Atlanta’s technology community for decades. From his early days as an executive at MSA to CEO of Internet Security Systems (acquired by IBM for $1.5B) and his current role as CEO of Joulex, Tom has been one of our city’s key tech leaders.

I recently had the pleasure of discussing with Tom his insights on the past, present and future of the Atlanta technology community. We hope you enjoy the interview and look forward to bringing you future installments of our Atlanta tech leadership series.

 

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GA Court Upholds Employer’s Rights in Trotman v. Velociteach

September 13th, 2011
Employment

A recent decision by the Georgia Court of Appeals addressed the issue of an employer’s rights when a former employee, upon leaving, uses the company’s proprietary materials to establish a new competing business.

In the case of Trotman v. Velociteach Project Management LLC, the trial court awarded project management training company, Velociteach, $147,750 from former employee Floyd Trotman and his new company, CertiFi, based on breach of contract, fraud, tortious interference with a business relationship, conversion, and misappropriation of trade secrets. The court also ordered Trotman to return all VelociTeach materials and barred him from using Velociteach’s customer lists. On appeal,

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