Tech Titans Settle Wage Antitrust Case
As often happens in the vicinity of courthouse steps, the high-profile Silicon Valley hiring antitrust class-action lawsuit has settled, pending court approval. In re: High-Tech Employee Antitrust...
View ArticleWhite House Releases Report on “Big Data”
The White House released its report on “big data” today, making several policy recommendations for the use of personal data in the commercial, educational and health care sectors. The report was...
View ArticlePrivacy Australia: What Do Death, Taxes and Deactivated Online Accounts Have...
Australia recently joined the growing ranks of countries that take privacy seriously - so seriously that a breach of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) and the Australian Privacy Principles...
View ArticleCourt Report
About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Cephalon Inc. v. Uman Pharma Inc. 1:14-cv-00568; filed April 30, 2014 in the District Court of Delaware....
View ArticlePrivacy Monday: Cinco de Mayo, 2014
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Breaking news this Privacy Monday: The fallout from the massive Target Corporation data breach continues. This morning, the Target board announced that Chief Executive Officer...
View ArticleReceiving the Benefit of the Bargain: Reconciling Judge King’s Class...
Within one week’s time, Judge George H. King, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, came down on opposite sides of the class certification coin, granting class...
View ArticleYou’ve Been Served… A Lawsuit via Facebook?!?!
Imagine you are a trademark owner, and you’ve discovered there is someone out there using your trademark – or something very close to it. You take steps to persuade the infringer to stop using your...
View ArticleOverview of Canada’s Anti-Spam/Anti-Spyware Legislation and How It Impacts...
Canada will soon have the dubious distinction of having the most restrictive anti-spam/anti-spyware legislation in the world. It focuses predominately on spam (unsolicited commercial electronic...
View ArticleBusiness Litigation Alert: "Did They Really Do That?"
General Mills Reverses Binding Arbitration for Facebook Fans - General Mills recently made headlines for its attempt to bind consumers to an arbitration agreement if they “liked” the company’s Facebook...
View ArticleTakeda Pharma. Co. Ltd. v. Zydus Pharmas. USA, Inc. (Fed Cir)
Case Name: Takeda Pharma. Co. Ltd. v. Zydus Pharmas. USA, Inc., No. 2013-1406, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 3072 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 20, 2014) (Circuit Judges Prost, Plager, and Chen presiding; Opinion by Prost,...
View ArticleDutch websites massively violate privacy laws by placing tracking cookies
Dutch newspapers report that Dutch websites massively violate privacy laws by passing on information about surf and click behavior of visitors to advertising companies, without permission of the...
View ArticleHulu Video Privacy Protection Act Summary Judgment Ruling in the N.D. of...
On Monday, April 28, 2014, the Northern District of California in In Re: Hulu Privacy Litigation, No. 3:11-cv-03764-LB (M.J. Laurel Beeler), issued a summary judgment opinion under the Video Privacy...
View ArticleExactly How Much Omega-3 Is in There?
On April 28, 2014, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Final Rule prohibiting certain "nutrient content claims" for docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and...
View ArticleEat More Walleye?
It’s that time of year again, the Minnesota fishing opener is upon us this weekend, so Rapala is sporting its new billboard in the Twin Cities metro area, as shown below......By: Winthrop &...
View ArticleFDA Regulation of Compounding Pharmacies: Unsolved Mysteries
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been busy since the passage of the Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA) in November 2013. In just five short months, the FDA has issued six warning...
View ArticleCalifornia Online Privacy Protection Act – Do Not Track Amendment
On January 1, 2014, the California legislature passed the “Do Not Track Amendment” (the “Amendment”) to the California Online Privacy Protection Act (“CalOPPA”). The Amendment requires certain...
View ArticleDutch energy company is fined for violating the Dutch telemarketing rules
Last week, the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (“ACM”) imposed a fine on energy company Essent for violating the Dutch telemarketing rules. In short, Essent had called several consumers with...
View ArticlePre-Patent Issuance Activities Can Create Justiciable Controversy
Danisco US Inc. v. Novozymes A/S - Addressing the issue of when a justiciable controversy arises for the purpose of declaratory judgment jurisdiction, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...
View ArticleMoFo Tech - Spring/Summer 2014
In This Issue: - Worn on the Sleeve - Log In - Focus - Critical Mass - Update - Support - First Mover - Datagram - QnA - Reboot - Excerpt from Worn on the Sleeve: Currently estimated at $1.6 billion,...
View ArticleNews from the Health Law Gurus™
News from the Health Law Gurus™ is a weekly summary of notable health law news from around the country with helpful links to related content. Check back every Friday for the latest health law news...
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