Starting a business can be difficult, even for experienced entrepreneurs. Many times, a concept that seems good to one person fails when presented to the market. That is a good part of why purchasing a franchise is often of interest.If you have the financial backing...


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Zillow sued over hacked California real estate listing
Moments ago, there were six listings on Zillow for San Diego homes selling for $16 million and up. The top price was $30 million. But those gorgeous, frightfully expensive homes pale in comparison to the $150 million asking price for a palatial Bel Air beachfront home...
California bakery settles intellectual property infringement suit
If you drive along the coast for a little more than 100 miles north of San Diego, you will come to a little slice of Hawaii. You can a bit of the island’s cuisine in Torrance, home of King’s Hawaiian bakery. The company was founded in Hawaii back in the 1950s, but...
California developer prevails in commercial real estate litigation
Far north of San Diego sits the modest town of Truckee, California. Perhaps most well-known as the site of the infamous Donner Party, Truckee is now popular for its Old West-style downtown and proximity to Lake Tahoe and world-class skiing.The town of about...
University of California deep in dispute over gene-editing IP
On one side, you have the University of California. On the side, there’s Harvard and MIT’s Broad Institute. The intellectual property dispute involving some of the nation’s premier institutes of higher learning revolves around the question of which...
Apple employee accused of trade secret theft for Chinese firm
A hardware engineer is accused of stealing information about Apple’s driverless car technology. According to Bloomberg, Jizhong Chen was observed taking photos with a wide-angle lens inside the area that houses Apple’s autonomous car project. Chen signed a...
In a will contest, who are the interested parties?
Let’s say that your loved one passed away recently. They left a will, but something unexpected has happened: someone came forward to challenge its validity. In addition to mourning the loss of your loved one, you now have a will contest on your hands.You feel...
San Diego businesses sued by disabled residents over scooters
A group of disabled city residents is demanding that an “obstacle course” is removed from city streets. In a federal lawsuit filed against San Diego businesses that provide shared ride scooters, the disabled residents say scooters left parked on sidewalks...
Scientist prevails in tech trade secrets lawsuit
One of the most important safeguards of trade secrets is to be found in our court system. The U.S District Court for the Northern District of California recently awarded more than $2.3 million to a technology company owner whose trade secrets in electrode design and...
California shareholder dispute headed to U.S. Supreme Court
A subsidiary of a California chipmaker is to have its appeal heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. Broadcom Inc. seeks to resolve a shareholder lawsuit over its acquisition four years ago of Emulex Corp., headquartered less than 100 miles north of San Diego in Costa Mesa....