Guest Post: Myriad -- An Obvious and Patent-Friendly Interpretation
MyriadIs Myriad truly authority for the proposition that naturally occurring nucleic acid sequences and a host of other naturally occurring materials are no longer patent-eligible? Was it really the...
View ArticleClean Energy Patent Growth Index – 2013 Year in Review
The Clean Energy Patent Growth Index (CEPGI) has released its 2013 Year in Review report. The report, tracking green patent trends by sector, provides some interesting insight on the status of Energy...
View ArticleFCC Considers Net Neutrality Rules, Could Impact Video Game Industry
“Net neutrality” has become one of the most hotly debated issues before lawmakers and regulators in Washington this year. Proponents of net neutrality argue that the government should regulate the...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court Holds State's Attorneys Subject to State FOIA
In the closing days of the recently concluded May term of the Illinois Supreme Court, the Court opened up the State’s Attorneys around the state to increased public scrutiny. In an opinion by Justice...
View ArticleIP Buzz - May 2014
In this issue: - Octane and Highmark: Supreme Court Decisions Give District Courts Greater Discretion to Award Fees - The USPTO Grants Two Patents Claiming Diagnostic Methods Post the Supreme Court's...
View ArticleNewPoint Media Seeks Declaration of Non-Infringement of Easy IP Patent and...
NewPoint Media Group, LLC (“NewPoint Media”), filed a complaint in the Northern District of Georgia seeking a declaratory judgment against Easy Intellectual Property Licenses, LLC (“Easy IP”) declaring...
View ArticleCould US Law Ever Recognize the “Right to Be Forgotten”?
Can there be a “Right to Be Forgotten” Law in the U.S.? The “right to be forgotten” in the online sphere has recently been protected by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), the highest court in the...
View ArticleEurope under Review: Part 8 of 8 – Individual Rights
This week we look at the last topic in our series of “back to data privacy basics”: individual rights. Rights of individuals at the heart of data protection - As we have seen over this series, the...
View ArticleCourt Endorses FTC Authority To Require Special Reporting for Pharmaceutical...
A federal court has endorsed the Federal Trade Commission’s authority to adopt regulations under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act that target specific industries. In Pharmaceutical Research and...
View ArticleNo More He-Said-She-Said: Revised Regulations Allow CMS to Request Records...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on May 19, 2014, adopted a final rule that significantly revised Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D prescription drug benefit program regulations...
View ArticleCourts Still Searching for Sweet Spot in “Evaporated Cane Juice” Cases:...
May 2014 was an active month for evaporated cane juice (“ECJ”) litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Six courts issued opinions that involved the application of...
View ArticleDefamation Claim Against HBO Sports Documentary Proceeds; International...
On May 16, 2014, in Mitre Sports v. HBO, the Southern District of New York allowed a defamation claim brought by a UK company against HBO to proceed to trial. In doing so, the Court ruled that Mitre...
View ArticleInsurance Recovery Law - June 2014
Lab’s “Body Bag” Presentations Triggered Coverage For Defamation Claims: Why it matters - We’ve all sat through some pretty boring PowerPoint presentations. But the lesson from a recent decision: it...
View ArticleAdvanced Manufacturing Requires Next-Generation Employees
Last week, Scott Kaspar addressed the “skills gap” that concerns high-tech manufacturers with state-side production facilities. But manufacturers need employees with more than mere technical skills....
View ArticleCloudy Skies Ahead for Providers? CMS’ Release of Medicare Billing Data...
In February 2013, we reported (on our Healthcare Law Blog) that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the final rule for the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. In the interest of...
View ArticleWhat Is “a Patient?”
Braintree Labs, Inc. v. Novel Labs, Inc. - On appeal from summary judgment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit construed “a patient” to mean “a population of patients,” overturning the...
View ArticleNew rules on cookies and Internet profiling!
After a long public consultation process, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, “Garante”) finally issued its decision on the “simplified information...
View ArticleConnected Health: Capturing Digital Opportunities
Her comment has been echoed by many market participants who have predicted that we are seeing the first wave of large traditional companies leveraging digital platforms and tools to drive growth and...
View ArticleLegal Marijuana: New Branding Opportunities, Same Old Infringement
Whether driven by new laws or technology, companies and individuals always push the limits of the law at the beginning. Obvious examples like Napster come to mind, as well as the more dated example of...
View ArticleOnly 4 Weeks Until Canada’s New Anti-Spam Rules Come into Force
Starting on July 1, 2014, key provisions of Canada’s Anti-Spam Law (CASL) governing commercial electronic messages (CEMs) will go into effect, per our advisory thoroughly analyzing CASL. The statute...
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