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As chair of Bradley's Intellectual Property Practice Group, Jeff Dyess is a litigation partner with over two decades of experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in the areas of intellectual property, competitive practice, trade secret and complex commercial disputes.

Jeff’s approach to litigation focuses on the partnership between the client and counsel. He believes that effective representation of the client – representation that achieves both short-term success in the immediate litigation as well as servicing the client’s long-term business goals – is best achieved when counsel understands the client’s business, its people and its culture.

Last week, the Supreme Court vacated a copyright infringement judgment against an ISP provider and remanded the case to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of the Cox Communications decision (Grande Comm’s Networks v. UMG Recordings, Inc., 2026 WL 922501, at *1 (U.S. April 6, 2026)). Specifically, the Court directed the Fifth

Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment | Decided March 25, 2026


On March 25, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision that will reshape not only how copyright law applies to the internet for years to come, but could impact other areas of intellectual property law as well. In Cox Communications, Inc. v.

Can you still have noncompete agreements with your employees? What if you explicitly state that the agreement protects trade secrets or other proprietary information? There has been a lot of buzz about this issue, and recently the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board joined the conversation with a memorandum, GC 23-08, opining