FFIEC Member Agencies and State of New York to Focus Attention on Cybersecurity
On May 7, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) highlighted regulatory efforts to enhance financial institutions’ cybersecurity during a webinar for approximately 5,000 chief...
View ArticleSTONE LION CAPITAL Likely to Cause Consumer Confusion with LION and LION CAPITAL
Stone Lion Capital Partners, L.P. v. Lion Capital LLP - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s decisions sustaining an opposition to...
View ArticleEnd of Battery Class Actions Almost in Sight
On April 22, 2014, the Plaintiff in Poertner v. Gillette Co. moved for final approval of settlement and for attorneys’ fees and costs. The settlement, reached in September 2013, would bring to an end...
View ArticleCourt of Justice of the European Union Finds Individuals Have a “Right to be...
Court defines its territorial reach and obliges Google to remove “old” unwanted personal data from web search results - In a landmark ruling on 13 May 2014,1 the Court of Justice of the European Union...
View ArticleMobile app providers: be aware of sweeping privacy watchdogs.
The Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) is organizing an international privacy sweep between 12 and 18 May 2014, specifically targeted at mobile applications, involving 27 data protection...
View ArticleEstate Planning and Tax Issues for Bitcoin and Other Virtual Currencies
For estate planning and tax advisers, it’s important to know about all of a person’s valuable and significant assets, including digital assets, so that they can help the person properly plan ahead for...
View ArticleThe SEC’s Cybersecurity Assessment: A Roadmap for Companies Nationwide
The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) provided cybersecurity guidance to the securities industry in the form of a Risk Alert issued by the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and...
View ArticleInteresting legal issues at Wired Next Fest 2014
The tech gurus in Milan are very excited since next week-end there will be the Wired Next Fest which will cover some of the most relevant technology matters currently discussed. Interestingly some of...
View ArticleLaw À La Mode: Special Edition – INTA 2014
In This Issue: - MODERNISATION OF THE TRADEMARK SYSTEM: Is Europe on the cusp of trademark law reform? - FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE: Brand owners face unique challenges in Russia - DETAINING COUNTERFEIT...
View Article"Federal Circuit Overturns Oracle v. Google and Potentially Widens Debate...
In a landmark decision concerning the copyrightability of computer software, on May 9, 2014, the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals held that Oracle, Inc. is entitled to copyright protection for 37...
View ArticleRegulatory double jeopardy? FTC enforcement of privacy and security in...
How should health care companies strengthen their HIPAA compliance programs to manage the risk of a potential FTC investigation? While the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for...
View ArticleProtecting Your Start-Up’s Core Assets
In my series of posts with advice for start-ups, I think this is the most important one. It is about protecting the heart of your business, i.e. those assets that form its foundation, drive its...
View ArticleStatus, under the Registration Requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, of...
Securities that are offered and sold only to residents of a single state by a company “resident and doing business” in that state are exempt from registration with the Securities and Exchange...
View ArticlePost-Grant Report - May 2014: Playing Offense As A Defendant: Using Covered...
New patent infringement lawsuits fill the dockets every morning. The asserted patents are often directed to a process involving financial services or products, electronic commerce, or monetary matters....
View ArticleThe Uphill Climb Continues for Privacy Class Actions: Ninth Circuit Affirms...
On May 8, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California’s decision to dismiss with prejudice consolidated consumer...
View ArticleTCPA Hot Issues: If Consent is Not Forever, What Constitutes Revocation?
One of the hot issues in pending litigation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) is whether a consumer can revoke consent to receive calls on a cell phone. A number of courts have...
View Article"FCC Launches Broad Network Neutrality Rulemaking"
Yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) launched a proceeding to develop new network neutrality regulations that would prohibit Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from...
View ArticleFood and Beverage News and Trends
GMA, others say 2009 FDA guidance on use of the term “evaporated cane juice” has caused chaos in food industry. In 2009, the FDA told manufacturers not to use the term “evaporated cane juice” on the...
View ArticleThe Next Generation of Data Breach Notice Law — Florida’s Information...
In a harbinger of data-breach-laws to come, the Florida State Legislature just passed a new Florida Information Protection Act, which establishes tough new notification requirements for businesses and...
View ArticleNew Proposed Rules Significantly Expand OIG's Exclusion Power
On May 9, 2014, the Office of Inspector General ("OIG") of the Department of Health and Human Services published in the Federal Register a proposed rule amending the regulations relating to OIG's...
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