Markit to Market - June 2014
In This Issue: - FDA Draft Guidance: Best Practices for Developing Drug Trademarks - U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Proposes Fee Reductions - gTLD Sunrise Periods Now Open - Excerpt from U.S. Patent...
View ArticleAereo infringes broadcasters’ copyrights, US Supreme Court rules – coming...
The United States Supreme Court has held that online video startup Aereo Inc. infringes broadcasters’ copyrights in on-air programming when Aereo transmits the programs to its Internet subscribers....
View ArticleNNI Publishes Progress Review of 2011 EHS Research Strategy
On June 25, 2014, the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) posted Progress Review on the Coordinated Implementation of the National Nanotechnology Initiative 2011 Environmental, Health, and Safety...
View ArticlePom v. Coke Will Impact Financial Services Too
Law 360, New York (June 23, 2014, 11:22 AM ET)--Legal and compliance departments, take note: the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Pom Wonderful LLC v.Coca-Cola Co. confirms that even i fan...
View ArticleFlorida Gives Breach Notification Statute More Teeth
On June 20, 2014, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed the Florida Information Protection Act of 2014 (“FIPA”), which will repeal Florida’s current breach notification statute at Fla. Stat. § 817.5681...
View ArticleHouse Releases Discussion Draft of TSCA Reform Legislation
Reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) may be a little closer to reality since Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy,...
View ArticleA Victory for Personal Information Privacy
In a stunning victory for Fourth Amendment rights and personal information privacy generally, the United States Supreme Court in Riley v California has held that police may not search an arrestee’s...
View ArticleFlorida Governor Signs Florida Information Protection Act
On April 30, the Florida House of Representatives unanimously passed the Florida Information Protection Act of 2014, Senate Bill 1524. On June 20, 2014, Governor Rick Scott signed the bill into law....
View ArticleSupreme Court Aiding Fight against Patent Trolls: Alice, Nautilus, Limelight,...
The Supreme Court may be making up for where Congress has left off. Legislation designed to curb abuse from patent assertion entities, or so-called patent trolls, has been shelved indefinitely. The...
View ArticleTo keep data safe, law firms must embrace a culture of security
As the White House report on big data indicates, an enormous amount of information is collected, stored, analyzed and relayed in digitized form over the Internet and, increasingly, using mobile...
View ArticleFlorida Passes New Data Breach Notification Law Requiring Enforcement of...
Personal information now includes online account information, health insurance policy numbers, and medical information - Florida Governor Rick Scott signed into law the Florida Information Protection...
View ArticleHulu Scores a Victory (at least temporarily) in Avoiding Class Certification
Another important decision has been rendered in the ongoing In re: Hulu Privacy Litigation saga pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, this time denying –...
View ArticleBitcoin and gaming – what legal issues?
Issues affecting Bitcoin and gaming are becoming a very frequent topic of discussion since a number of gaming websites decided to allow Bitcoin transactions and even relevant gambling regulators...
View ArticleWhat is Patent Term Adjustment and Why Does It Matter?
For patents granted on applications filed on or after June 8, 1995, the enforceable patent term begins on the day the patent issues and generally expires 20 years from the earliest effective filing...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Finds Direct Copyright Liability for Subscriber-Directed...
The U.S. Supreme Court held last week that a service provider directly infringes a copyright owner’s exclusive performance right when it transmits to subscribers individualized streams of copyrighted...
View ArticleA Football Team, by Any Other Name…: USPTO Decision Illustrates that Law is...
At Meadowlawn Elementary in the 1960s, my West Michigan friends and I would boast about things that made us "better" than each other. It was the golden age of Superman comics and, while I didn't have...
View ArticleNancy Hamilton's Notes: 18½ Minutes vs. 2 Years: Then and Now
During the Watergate scandal of 1973 and 1974, which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, the Nixon White House tapes were the focal point of a media firestorm and the nation's...
View ArticleMitigating Risk in Cloud Computing Agreements
Cloud computing is the new reality. A 2013 IDC survey reports that 61% of enterprises have at least one cloud-based application and total enterprise investments in cloud-based solutions have gone up...
View ArticleData Breach Liability Exclusion – It’s Not Your Father’s CGL
No business is immune to data breach. Digital data in particular can be lost in innumerable ways, causing serious business interruptions and consumer injuries. After falling victim to a hack, virus, or...
View ArticleJune 2014: Class Action Litigation Update: “Ascertainability” Emerges as Key...
“Ascertainability” Emerges as Key Battleground in Class Actions Involving Low-Cost Consumer Goods. Grocery store shelves have emerged as the favored hunting ground of the plaintiff’s consumer class...
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