2014 Verizon Report Offers Advice For Combatting Nine Common Threats To...
The 2014 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) was released on April 22, providing the deep empirical analysis of cybersecurity incidents we’ve come to expect from this annual report. The...
View ArticleLeading the Charge: Vermont Mandates GMO Labeling by 2016
While some states have passed GMO-labeling laws which contain a triggering-clause before they go into effect, Vermont has officially become the first state to pass a law, without any triggering-clause,...
View ArticleEuropean Court Establishes “Right to be Forgotten” Online
Today’s decision by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that individuals enjoy the right to have truthful yet unflattering information about them “forgotten” from online search results is generating a...
View ArticleTrade Secrets: Made for TV--Former director owes royalty for stealing source...
Acrimony, anger, revenge, piracy, and a legal battle—these are often the ingredients of a prime-time television drama. But in this case, they are not the makings of a plot found on cable, Netflix, or...
View ArticleAdvertising Law - May 2014
W3C Reaches Milestone: “Do Not Track” Specification Set - The road to establish an industry standard for Do Not Track has been long and winding. Last year, efforts at consensus stalled, grinding the...
View Article“Natural” Clones Are Ineligible for Patent Protection
Last week, in In re Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), the Federal Circuit affirmed the rejection by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) of product claims covering cloned mammals. This...
View ArticleWeek in Review - May 2014
Personal wearable technology is all the rage, but can wearable technology also increase employee productivity? A study out this week found that wearable technology in the workplace increases both...
View ArticleEuropean Court of Justice rules right to be forgotten principle applicable to...
In a landmark ruling the European Court of Justice has ruled that search engines, as a principle, need to remove the link between search results and a webpage if it contains information the individual...
View ArticleIARC Advisory Group Recommends Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as High Priority
An International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Advisory Group met on April 7-9, 2014, to recommend priorities for IARC Monographs during 2015-2019. The Advisory Group assessed the responses to a...
View ArticleSEC Takes Proactive Approach to Cybersecurity
Last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) formally announced its cybersecurity initiative in a Risk Alert. The initiative...
View ArticleTrademark Functionality and Fashion – Tips for Clients
Trademark protection is very important in the fashion industry. The ability to protect certain logos and design features may determine the success of a fashion designer’s business. Thus, it is crucial...
View ArticleSEC Staff Guidance on the Use of Social Media in Securities Offerings, Tender...
The staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently provided guidance on applying its rules regarding communications in connection with...
View ArticleCloud Computing: Evolving Contracting Practices
The explosion of cloud computing is creating new common standards and changing industry contracting practices for access to these services. Cloud services providers tend to provide standard contractual...
View ArticleIgnoring XP End Of Life May Make Your Company An Attractive Target
On April 8, Microsoft officially ended all support and ceased providing updates for their Windows XP operating system. This “end of life” (EOL) announcement is not uncommon with software platforms,...
View ArticleEU Data Protection – Draft Ad hoc contractual clauses "EU data processor to...
On March 21st, 2014, the EU Article 29 Working Party[1] (the "Working Party") issued the "Working document 01/2014 on Draft Ad hoc contractual clauses 'EU data processor to non-EU sub-processor'"[2]...
View Article“Selfie” Assessment – 4 Key Lessons from Snapchat’s Settlement with the FTC
As a country we are quickly approaching a time in which most adults will be disqualified from being elected to public office because of something they posted on their social media account while growing...
View ArticleMoFo BioMeter - Vol. 3, Issue 2, May 2014 - Early Stage Deals Dominant Q1:...
The MoFo BioMeter for the first quarter of 2014 shows a decrease in average BioMeter value in a quarter dominated by early stage deals. Total dealmaking activity showed an uptick compared to the same...
View ArticleThe Skinny on the White House Big Data Report
While the public debate on privacy has largely focused on how government, particularly the intelligence community, collects, stores, and uses data, President Obama earlier this year announced a...
View ArticleIRS Notice Has Profound Impact on Tax Treatment of Bitcoin
Recently, I had a client ask me about accepting payments in Bitcoin due to perceived reduction in transaction costs. Unfortunately, there is a recent IRS ruling that makes the future of Bitcoin as a...
View ArticleFDA Releases New Guidance for Biosimilar Applications
Yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration provided further clarity as to how it will evaluate applications for approval of biosimilars when it released a draft guidance document outlining the...
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