Federal Trade Secrets Act focus of April 12 FBA program
The Intellectual Property Committee of the Federal Bar Association, Eastern District of Michigan Chapter, will present a seminar about the new Federal Trade Secrets Act on Wednesday, April 12, at the Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse in Detroit.
The event is scheduled form noon to 1:30 p.m. in Room 115. The courthouse is located at 231 West Lafayette Blvd.
Attendees will learn how the act creates a federal civil cause of action for trade secret misappropriation and how it will increase the number of trade secret cases in federal court.
Those attending also will learn best practices for judges and practitioners in the trade secret cases.
The cost is $25 for FBA members, $30 for non-members, and free for judges and judicial law clerks. Lunch will be provided.
Registration can be completed online at www.fbamich.org.
For additional information, contact Christopher G. Dar row at darrow@darrowiplaw.com or 248.864.5961.
Cyberthreat workshop to highlight Baker College program
FLINT (AP) — A workshop focusing on cyberthreats to small businesses will highlight the cyberdefense program at Baker College’s Flint campus.
The session, scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, March 29 is called “Small Business, Big Threat: Cyber Security Awareness.”
It is presented by the Michigan Small Business Development Center.
The center’s Marsha Lyttle says the cyberdefense program at Baker College is a tremendous resource and the workshop could result in work projects for students.
The program’s director, Doug Witten, will be on a speakers’ panel at the event. He leads the cyberdefense, computer science and computer information systems programs and advises the student cyberdefense club.
Students in the bachelor’s degree program will participate during a question-and-answer session.
The workshop is free but pre-registration is required.
Number of renters surpasses homeowners in Detroit
DETROIT (AP) — Renters outnumber homeowners in Detroit for the first time in 50 years.
The latest estimates available from the U.S. Census Bureau show that about 53 percent of Detroit residents rent their homes.
The foreclosure crisis of the past decade has seen tens of thousands of single-family houses in Detroit shift from owner-occupied to renter-occupied, The Detroit Free Press reported.
The surge apartment living is also part of the shift.
Anika Goss-Foster, director of the Detroit Future City Implementation Office, said the trend doesn’t mean Detroit is on a downward spiral.
“But it does mean that we need to pay more attention to this market. Because not only are there more renters, there are low-income renters living in poor-quality housing, and that’s really what we need to be concerned about,” she said.
Goss-Foster estimated that state or federal housing programs provide subsidies to about one in five of the city’s 130,000 single-family rented houses.
The switch to a majority-rental market creates a need for new ways of thinking about the city, said Wendy Lewis Jackson, who manages the Kresge Foundation’s Detroit revitalization programs.
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