• posted: Nov. 19, 2016
• Christina Ge
• Archive
• Cal. Business & Professions Code 17206,  California Attorney General's office,  California Business & Professions Code 22575,  California law,  California Online Privacy Protection Act,  CalOPPA,  consumer complaint,  Do Not Track signals,  personally identifiable information,  user's personal information,  website privacy policy

It’s understandable if you don’t think that website privacy policies are not on the top of your newsfeed. Apparently, Google, the world’s most popular website, changed its website’s privacy policy Read More

• posted: Nov. 17, 2016
• Christina Ge
• Articles,  Employment,  High Technology Law,  Business,  Business Law
• Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code 17200,  California Business and Professions Code 16600,  California employers,  employers,  non compete agreements,  unfair competition,  White House Call to Action

A big drag on the health of the economy is labor mobility – or rather, the lack of it. People trapped in jobs that they don’t want to be in Read More

• posted: Nov. 07, 2016
• Christina Ge
• Archive
• ISP notice

It’s been a long day. You pull the snail mail out of its box. You find a letter from your ISP, your internet service provider. Maybe it’s a special offer Read More

• posted: Oct. 19, 2016
• Christina Ge
• rights of publicity
• CDA section 230,  ecomm,  handling negative reviews,  Hassell v Bird,  internet law,  Streisand Effect,  yelp

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• posted: Jul. 29, 2016
• Christina Ge
• Incorporation/LLC

Incorporating Is The Only Way to Shield My Assets If There Is a Catastrophe. Starting a small business has its risks. It takes a lot of work, there are lots of Read More

• posted: Jul. 29, 2016
• Christina Ge
• Articles,  Business Counseling,  Business,  Business Law,  Incorporation/LLC

Incorporating Is The Only Way to Shield My Assets If There Is a Catastrophe. Starting a small business has its risks. It takes a lot of work, there are lots of Read More

• posted: Jul. 01, 2016
• Christina Ge
• Archive
• Copyright,  Supreme Court,  First Sale Doctrine,  Attorneys' Fees,  Copyright Act,  intellectual property rights,  Justice Elena Kagan,  Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons,  Warner Brothers

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.              Read More

• posted: Jul. 01, 2016
• Christina Ge
• Archive
• Copyright Act,  intellectual property rights,  Justice Elena Kagan,  Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons,  Warner Brothers

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.              Read More

• posted: May 13, 2016
• Christina Ge
• Archive

On Wednesday, May 11, 2016, President Obama signed into law the “Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016,” which provides an extraordinarily strong civil seizure provision – and an important notice Read More

• posted: Feb. 28, 2016
• Christina Ge
• Articles,  Business Counseling,  Employment,  Business,  Business Law

There were new developments in California employment law that every business owner needs to know. Minimum Wage. Most already know that California raised the minimum wage to $10 per hour as of Read More

• posted: Feb. 01, 2016
• Christina Ge
• Archive

by: Andrew K Jacobson On February 1st, the New York Times published “It’s Been 10 Years. Would Clarence Thomas Like to Add Anything?”, about the impending anniversary of Supreme Court Justice Read More

• posted: Nov. 14, 2014
• Christina Ge
• Archive
• AIA,  America Invents Act,  patent pending,  concise statement,  notice of allowance,  patent,  patent application,  preissuance,  questionable scope,  small entity,  Third party challenge

-- Third Party Challenges to Pending Patent Applications --  -- New Procedure Under the America Invents Act --         By: Sharon Adams November 14, 2014 One addition to U.S. patent law provided by the Read More

• posted: Nov. 14, 2014
• Christina Ge
• Archive
• concise statement,  notice of allowance,  patent,  patent application,  preissuance,  questionable scope,  small entity,  Third party challenge

-- Third Party Challenges to Pending Patent Applications --  -- New Procedure Under the America Invents Act --         By: Sharon Adams November 14, 2014 One addition to U.S. patent law provided by the Read More

• posted: Oct. 29, 2014
• Christina Ge
• Archive
• Activision Blizzard,  Civil Code 3344,  EA,  Electronic Arts,  First Amendment,  Giuliani,  Gwen Stefani,  Norega

          By: Sharon Adams Oct. 23, 2014 The recent case of Noriega v. Activision Blizzard presents the question: Does infamy give rise to the right of publicity? Manuel Noriega, the former Panamanian dictator, filed Read More

• posted: Oct. 08, 2014
• Christina Ge
• Articles,  Employment,  Political,  Business Law
• Governor Brown,  healthy families,  paid sick days,  sick leave,  sick pay,  updating employee handbook

                By Daniel Richardson Beginning July 1, 2015, nearly all California employers will be required to provide full-time and part-time employees with a minimum of three days of paid sick leave per Read More

• posted: Oct. 02, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Archive
• trademark registration,  advertising and business trademark classification,  class 35,  class 42,  computer and scientific trademark classification,  goods or services,  international trademark classification,  PTO,  trademark classification

          By: Sharon Adams Every trademark application must identify the exact mark, and the goods or services that are associated with the mark.   The Trademark Examination Guide (released in August 2014) makes Read More