The decision safeguard your invention with a patent or trade secret protection depends on a number of factors: http://blog.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/small-law-firms/the-patent-or-padlock-dilemma-factors-in-choosing-between-patent-and-trade-secret-protection/
Apple continues fight with FBI over data security and encryption
Is compelling Apple to bypass its privacy technology unduly burdensome? http://www.bna.com/forcing-apple-bypass-n57982067672/
Information Security: The Beer, Burrito, and Bytes of Brand
By Martin Medeiros In college we used to go to the Black Rooster Pub on 1919 L Street in D.C. because they sold Bass Ale, one of a few European style beers around before the microbrewery revolution. Little did I know that in a few years I would learn that the Bass Ale red triangle […]
New Breach at Scottrade
Back from the annual Privacy.Security.Risk 2015 meeting in Las Vegas. Three days of intense review on cases, responses and trends. Looking at the case studies of breaches, it is interesting this headline is so fresh. There were many data reports from Bloomberg, law firms, security firms with data on the level of intrusion. I am […]
Is Privacy a Legal Fiction? Inventory Privacy Types in Your Business
Data and Information Privacy and Security: Article 1 The most important thing any human does in their life does not physically exist. The premise of this series of articles is the idea of data and information, encapsulated in legal rights, is vitally important to the economy, your business and you personally. According to Ocean Tomo, […]
“I know who I am and I know they know who I am”; Greek Game Theory
When it comes to world finance, the “no deal” option may be better. But in the case of the Greek / EU dynamic, it leaves all players: Greece, creditors and the European Union at large, worse off than restructuring. But second best can be the best from a game theory perspective. Indeed, this may be […]
Using Game Theory in Legislation
I continue to advocate the use of game theory analysis in deal making and litigation, and believe the discipline supported successful efforts over the last twenty years. More recently, I posed the idea of a required game theory analysis use as part and parcel of legislative processes. Now Sri Lanka has taken up the discipline to determine a “cooperative competition” […]
Players Only: Thinking About Who’s Who in Your Economic Sand Box
In this second in our series to assist businesses and individuals on how to increase the predictability of their decisions, we will focus on players. Some nomenclatura first; as we will be using it, a “player” is neither a brand of cigarette from Nottingham, nor a womanizing/manizing clubber. As we use it here, a player […]
Overwhelmed with Options in a Deal: An Easy Way to Focus Your Efforts on What Really Matters
By Martin Medeiros Medeiros Law Group When we receive or respond to an offer or proposal or edit a contract, or edit a contract, and try to sift through all the options, the possibilities can be overwhelming. Add to the restraint required of us in the contemporary age where distraction is the rule; visitors, texts, […]
Is a Do-Nothing Legislature Really that Bad? Game Theory, Law, Complexity, and Deadlock.
by Martin Medeiros There is great anxiety in America today regarding the lack of legislation being passed. Impasse, deadlock and “do nothing” legislatures are reviled. We don’t have “deal makers”, we do have polarized extremes. It is well said that partisanship is easy, deal making is difficult; criticism is simple, creation complex. But how […]