The FAA’s “Regulations” Pertaining to Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Amazon’s ambitious proposal to use a fleet of unmanned aircraft systems to deliver packages may seem like a novelty announced years before its time, but the commercial use of unmanned aircraft systems...
View ArticleConducting Online Research Of Jurors Just Got Less Perilous – Or Did It?
Last week, the American Bar Association’s Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility (“ABA”) gave lawyers the go-ahead to scour jurors’ or potential jurors’ publicly available social-media...
View ArticlePublic-Private Manufacturing Innovation Institutes Announced
Following on the coattails of the Youngstown, Ohio, manufacturing hub, President Obama announced three more public-private manufacturing institutes – in North Carolina, Chicago and Detroit – to focus...
View ArticleSupreme Court to Consider Federal Circuit De Novo Review of Claim...
On March 31, 2014, the Supreme Court granted writ of certiorari in Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v. Sandoz, Inc. to hear Teva’s appeal of a Federal Circuit decision invalidating several patents on...
View Article"Intellectual Property and Global Business Strategies: Observations From the...
Encouraged by a combination of factors, particularly pressure on public companies to create value and increased convergence within a number of industries, strategic uses of intellectual property...
View ArticleSelect Management Seeks Redress From Title Credit Over Use Of "Loan Max" Mark
On April 1, 2014, Select Management Resources, LLC of Alpharetta, Georgia (“Select”) filed a complaint against Title Credit Acceptance, LLC of Duluth, Georgia (“Title”) alleging state and federal...
View ArticleMessages Stored on Personal Electronic Devices in Personal Accounts Are Not...
The disagreement between the trial court and 6th District Court of Appeal in Smith v. City of San Jose illuminates a growing concern over how to treat electronic communications that the Public Records...
View ArticleExpert Who Files Patent Applications Not Barred From Receiving Confidential...
Case Number: 1:12-cv-09261-TPG (Dkt. 76) - The court denied plaintiffs’ motion to bar Par’s expert Professor Midian from receiving any of their confidential information unless he agreed to a patent...
View ArticleTheft Of Unencrypted Laptops Leads To Two HHS Settlements Totaling Nearly $2...
On April 22, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced settlements with both Concentra Health Services (Concentra) and QCA Health Plan, Inc. (QCA). Through these latest...
View ArticleGeneric Top Level Domains - Current Sunrise Periods Open
As first reported in our December 2013 newsletter, the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs, the group of letters after the "dot" in a domain name) have launched their "Sunrise" registration...
View ArticleSoftware Sector Leads First Quarter Venture Funding to Thirteen Year High;...
Earlier this month, the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), a trade association representing the U.S. venture capital industry, released the results of its MoneyTree Report on venture funding...
View ArticleCybersecurity - Growing Technological Threats Raise New Issues for Investors...
In recent months, the Heartbleed bug and massive data breaches like those experienced by Target have drawn increased attention to cybersecurity, and the need to better protect the almost unfathomable...
View Article"Study Reveals US Courts of Appeal Are Less Receptive to Reviewing Class...
Skadden recently conducted a study on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform regarding acceptance rates for Rule 23(f) petitions appealing class certification rulings in...
View ArticleECHA provides further guidance on substance identity to ensure compliant...
REACH requires manufacturers, importers and only representatives registering a substance to provide extensive and correct information on substance identity in the registration dossier. The European...
View ArticleA CTO’s Views On How To Combat Hackers & Cybercriminals
In this article, I delve into the views and opinions of a chief technology officer of a telecommunications company to understand important steps a company can take to combat hackers and...
View ArticleFederal Circuit Decides “a Patient” is Not Restricted to a Single Patient
In the recent Braintree Labs v. Novel Labs, the Federal Circuit may have limited the value of composition for methods of treatment claims. The patent-in-suit related to compositions for preparing the...
View ArticleLiberty Media Enters into Voting Agreement with Comcast to Facilitate Comcast...
Liberty Media Corporation ("Liberty") (Nasdaq: LMCA, LMCB) today announced that it has entered into a Voting Agreement with Comcast Corporation ("Comcast") (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) to facilitate the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Mail and the 4th Amendment: Do Any of Us Seriously Think We Have a...
A perspective on the recent Fourth Amendment and privacy considerations raised by judge James C. Fancis' recent Memorandum and Order: 'In The Matter Of A Warrant To Search A Certain E-Mail Account...
View ArticleITC: Data Transmissions from Abroad Are Importations Subject to Section 337
Unfair acts connected to imported "articles" are unlawful under Section 337. The U.S. International Trade Commission – the agency tasked with administering Section 337 – recently ruled that data...
View ArticleExceptional Case Finding Results in $12 Million Fee Award
Gabriel Techs. Corp. v. Qualcomm Inc. - In a non-precedential decision addressing a finding of exceptional case under 35 U.S.C. § 285, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a...
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