• Benefits Bulletin

    Is Your 401(k) Plan Too Complicated?

    Andrew S. Williams
    11/18/20

    Recent cases against university-sponsored retirement plans include allegations that these plans are complicating the investment decisions of participants because the plans offer too many investment choices.

    As alleged in one complaint, the plans provide so many options that participants are left with a "virtually impossible burden" of deciding where to invest their retirement funds.

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  • IP BLAWG

    Zoom Smashes Trade Secrets

    Beverly A. Berneman
    11/17/20

    Discussing confidential or trade secret information through video conferencing platforms can be hazardous to the health of trade secrets. 

    Smash Franchise Partners, LLC and Smash My Trash LLC operate a mobile trash compaction business. Smash’s trucks compact trash in the customer’s dumpster. This allows the customer to fill the dumpster with more trash and save on waste management fees. Smash sells franchises to entrepreneurs who want to run Smash branded franchises.

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  • IP BLAWG

    Everybody Does It Fails as a Defense

    Beverly A. Berneman
    11/10/20

    Some of you may recall the argument you used with your parents that went something like “Everyone else gets to go” or “Everyone else’s parents let them [fill in the blank]”. Chances are that these arguments were unsuccessful.

    Elie Tahari Ltd. learned that “Everybody does it” doesn’t work in a copyright infringement case either.

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  • IP BLAWG

    Copyright Trolling Hasn’t Died

    Beverly A. Berneman
    11/3/20

    In 2017, I awarded the grand prize for IP criminals to the disgraced Prenda Law Firm. This stain on the legal profession had created honey pot porn websites and then sued people who downloaded their content for copyright infringement. The lesson of creating your own porn to entice illegal downloads seems to have resonated. But wholesale copyright infringement cases are still out there.

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