California Dramatically Expands Consumer Privacy Rights For the Entire Country

 

By: Jessica R. Corpuz
Litigation Blog

California recently passed the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, described by Former Gov. Jerry Brown as a “historic step” for California consumers, “giving them control over their personal data.”  He claimed that the law “forges a path forward to lead the nation once again on privacy and consumer protection issues.”

This is not just political puffery.  The Consumer Privacy Act has broad-ranging implications for the rest of the country,

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Goodbye Majestic Yosemite Hotel, Welcome Back Ahwahnee Hotel

 

By Josh Escovedo
IP Law Blog

A few years ago, when the concessionaire for Yosemite National Park (the “Park”), Delaware North, was informed that the Park planned to consider other concessionaires, such as Aramark, Delaware North responded in shocking fashion. Delaware North responded that if it was going to be replaced as the concessionaire, it intended to take the Park’s intellectual property (the “IP”), such as the Ahwahnee Hotel and Curry Village,

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Supreme Court Decision Will Have Huge Economic Impact on Trademark Infringement Damages

 

by Scott Hervey
IP Law Blog

The Supreme Court has agreed to resolve a circuit split over when a court can order the payment of an infringer’s profits to a successful plaintiff as a measure of damages.  The matter comes to the Supreme Court as an appeal from the Second Circuit decision in Romag Fasteners Inc. v. Fossil Inc. et al.  In that case,

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