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Coming up next, some of todays white house Cyber Security summit and california beginning with pres. Obama president obama talking about information sharing between government and private industry. Then Homeland Security secretary discusses the same issue with Business Leaders from American Express, Pacific Gas Electric and Kaiser Permanente. Later the ceos of mastercard, aig, and bank of america sit down with Congress Secretary for a discussion on what companies can do to better protect against...

South Carolina State University on Sunday, March 3, announced its 2024 Staff Employees of the Year in nine divisions, including overall university honoree Angelia P. Jackson.

Senate Council discussed the Plan for Pitt initiative and heard reports from student members of Senate Council at its monthly meeting on Thursday. 

Hundreds of new computer companies have made Texas the likely successor to California’s Silicon Valley, and it all started with two firms in Dallas.

South Carolina State University President Alexander Conyers has appointed Eric Ham to serve as chief information officer.

[co-authors: Bryce Couch, Jessica Lee, Alexandra Duncan, and Vrinda Bhuta] This CLE paper explores criminal intellectual property violations. There are a wide range of potentially applicable statutory provisions. Part One broadly discusses criminal copyright infringement, focusing on 17 U.S.C. Section 506 and 18 U.S.C. Section 2319. Part Two explores the Trademark Copyright Act, as well as its relation to its civil law counterpart, the Lanham Act, and its evolution since 1984. Part Three explor...

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Whether under the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (“DTSA”) or under state law uniform trade secrets acts (“UTSA”), assessing monetary damages in trade secret misappropriation cases is rarely easy.  By definition, trade secrets lose their value once they lose their secrecy, but the lost value is often difficult to monetize.  Calculating damages for misappropriation should account for the lost value of the trade secret “asset,” but courts often los...