My mission is to strengthen your business, ensure compliance with privacy laws, HIPAA, AI laws, and protect you while enabling you to contract with vendors and new customers. My main areas of practice are technology law, intellectual property law, and business law. I can help you grow your business, including guiding you through negotiations with business partners and vendors, advising you on how to protect your brand and trade secrets, and keeping you up to date on the latest privacy and cyber security requirements.
My goal is to help you identify your current and future needs, and to address issues that you may not have anticipated yet. I’ll listen to your challenges, concerns and ideas, provide honest advice, keep an open flow of communication, and be a strong, determined advocate for your interests.
I am licensed in Pennsylvania and am admitted to practice in all three Federal districts within the Commonwealth. My experience includes jury and non-jury trials, Pennsylvania Superior Court briefs and argument, and litigating and mediating cases in Federal court. Past areas of practice have included family law and criminal law. A more detailed biography is located here.
About Wilftek LLC
I am a Senior Attorney with Wilftek LLC, a technology and intellectual property firm based in the Philadelphia area which represents clients at various stages of their business development – from the initial spark of an idea, to building relationships with business partners and customers, to planning for strategic growth. We help clients protect their business, brand, and creative assets.
My mission is to strengthen your business, ensure compliance with privacy laws, HIPAA, AI laws, and protect you while enabling you to contract with vendors and new customers. My main areas of practice are technology law, intellectual property law, and business law. I can help you grow your business, including guiding you through negotiations with business partners and vendors, advising you on how to protect your brand and trade secrets, and keeping you up to date on the latest privacy and cyber security requirements.
My goal is to help you identify your current and future needs, and to address issues that you may not have anticipated yet. I’ll listen to your challenges, concerns and ideas, provide honest advice, keep an open flow of communication, and be a strong, determined advocate for your interests.
I am licensed in Pennsylvania and am admitted to practice in all three Federal districts within the Commonwealth. My experience includes jury and non-jury trials, Pennsylvania Superior Court briefs and argument, and litigating and mediating cases in Federal court. Past areas of practice have included family law and criminal law. A more detailed biography is located here.
About Wilftek LLC
I am a Senior Attorney with Wilftek LLC, a technology and intellectual property firm based in the Philadelphia area which represents clients at various stages of their business development – from the initial spark of an idea, to building relationships with business partners and customers, to planning for strategic growth. We help clients protect their business, brand, and creative assets.
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Areas of Practice
Intellectual Property Law
Experienced in copyright, trademark, licensing, trade secret protection strategy, contract, and other areas of Intellectual Property law. Each area has its unique requirements. We can protect an owner’s rights, and protect a business’ ability to leverage and protect intellectual property rights.
Compliance, Cybersecurity, and Business Law
Businesses must comply with an increasing number of laws focused on protecting the privacy and security of customers, employees, and business partners. Insurance companies have successfully used non-compliance as a reason to not cover costly insurance claims. Hope is not a legal strategy – find out what your compliance requirements are, and whether you are meeting those requirements. We can set up or review your business structure and your employee and vendor agreements, to ensure that they meet your current and future needs.
Articles
What Is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act?
Over the past few years, you may have heard various people express support for or opposition to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. While President Trump and others have accused Internet content publishers of using it to discriminate against conservative points of view, the reality is quite different and actually not political at all. While people will often disagree about specific examples of political speech online, the irony is that political speech would have [...Read More...]
Where Have All the Soundtracks Gone?
When fans of the TV show “Dawson’s Creek” watch it on Netflix, it will sound very different. This is because the theme song (Paula Cole’s "I Don't Want to Wait") has been replaced by Jann Arden’s "Run Like Mad" due to lack of streaming and DVD rights to the Paula Cole song. Dawson’s Creek has plenty of company in this area. Before the rise of streaming services, TV shows could save money by paying for [...Read More...]
You Can’t Copyright That?
Copyright law often isn't as well understood as, for example, criminal defense, or family law. Most people may know that if you write a book, perform a song, or take a photograph, you can obtain copyright protection for those works. But what about items that you can't protect through copyright? Here are some examples of items that aren't eligible for copyright protection: Ideas. To be eligible for copyright protection, works must be "fixed in [...Read More...]
U.S. v. Arthrex: A Battle for Power over Patent Judges
One of my favorite aspects of the law is that something can be standard practice, or settled law, until a creative lawyer or court pulls it apart, turns it on its head, and a new paradigm is born. Think of Brown v. Board of Education, Miranda v. Arizona, or Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Each of these decisions upended the prior paradigm. A new case may be joining this list: United States v. Arthrex [...Read More...]
Third Party Cookies Crumble. Is Google’s Replacement Any Better?
As a scrappy Silicon Valley startup, Google's motto was "Don't Be Evil". The phrase was part of the employee Code of Conduct and was even the Wi-Fi password for its company shuttles. The phrase disappeared from the Code of Conduct in 2018, long after Google had become an Internet search giant and had begun acting the part. This includes aggressively collecting as much data as possible from users of its services and global users of [...Read More...]
New Copyright Laws: Tougher Enforcement and New “Small Claims Court”
At the end of December 2020, Congress passed an "omnibus" bill which justifiably received significant attention for funding the military and providing financial relief during the coronavirus pandemic. Included in the legislation were new laws relating to copyright: the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act and the Protecting Lawful Streaming (CASE) Act. The CASE Act The CASE Act is a new mechanism for handling copyright claims. The new law creates a Copyright Claims Board [...Read More...]
Keeping Up with Fast-Changing Privacy Laws
How much personal data do you collect from customers, and what privacy laws apply to your business? Recent privacy violations have resulted in penalties of thousands or millions of dollars, with Facebook paying a record FTC fine of $5 billion. Every business needs to know its compliance requirements and potential exposure. Yet the current proliferation of privacy laws has made this increasingly expensive and difficult. The nexus of these laws is the need to protect [...Read More...]
Spirit v. Led Zeppelin Case Finally Ascends the Stairway to Heaven
After six years of litigation, Led Zeppelin has finally won. Michael Skidmore, the trustee for the estate of Spirit's guitarist Randy Wolfe, sued in 2014, claiming that Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" infringed Spirit's copyright in its song, "Taurus." On October 5, 2020, the Supreme Court denied Skidmore's request for a writ of certiorari after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against him in March 2020, which now ends the litigation. In 2016, a [...Read More...]
Confused about privacy compliance?
The European Union’s GDPR and California’s CCPA aren’t the new kids on the block anymore.
In just a few years, 19 states passed comprehensive data privacy laws, all of which will be in effect by January 1, 2026.
Did you know: the criteria for whether a state’s privacy law applies to your business varies widely between the states. It depends on the type of business, type of data, number of consumers affected, and other factors.
GDPR
Recognized as the privacy standard outside the U.S., used as a template for other countries' privacy lawsGDPR
The E.U.’s General Data Protection Regulation went into effect in 2018, and remains the leading privacy standard.California's CCPA
Recognized as the leading state privacy law in the U.S. - but 18 states have taken a different approachCCPA
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is the leading privacy standard for the U.S., though it only applies to California residents.The CCPA has protections on selling and sharing data, and is enforced by a new agency: the CPPA (no, not a typo!)