The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (“DTSA”) was signed into law and became effective May 11, 2016. The DTSA grants federal jurisdiction over private civil actions for the misappropriation of trade secrets and allows owners of trade secrets to choose either state courts under Nebraska common law or the […]
Technology & Intellectual Property Update
New Electronic Registration Requirements for Claiming DMCA Safe Harbor
The U.S. Copyright Office (“Office”) has adopted an amendment to regulation 37 CFR § 201 to modernize their system for registering designated copyright agents for notifications of claimed copyright infringement. As of December 1, 2016, the Office will no longer accept paper registrations, and electronic registrations will last three years. […]
Anthony Todero, Brian Schumacher, and Krista Eckhoff Author the Nebraska Chapter of the ABA’s Commercial Lending Law Publication
The American Bar Association is publishing a second edition of the popular treatise, Commercial Lending Law: A Jurisdiction-by-Jurisdiction Guide to U.S. and Canadian Law. The new two-volume set provides comprehensive coverage of the laws relevant to commercial lenders, such as banks and insurance companies. Baird Holm LLP’s Anthony D. Todero, […]
EU, U.S. Announce New Data Sharing Framework
In a press release issued on February 2, 2016, the European Commission announced that it had reached an agreement with the U.S. on a new framework for transatlantic data sharing. According to the press release, the new agreement intends to protect the privacy rights of Europeans who have their data […]
Updates in Trademark Law
2015: The Boom of New Generic Top-Level Domains In 2015, domain name real estate exploded, with several hundred new top-level generic domain names (gTLDs) approved and introduced by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the agency that coordinates and maintains the worldwide web. New domain names were […]

