Tobacco Companies — Finally Being Brought to Justice
“We are reformed and vow never to be evil, devious, conspiratorial, deceitful, designing, tricky, conniving, underhanded or murderous ever again!” So goes the paraphrased prostrations of lawyer Jeff...
View ArticleSeventh Circuit Confirms: In-House Insurance Lawyers Are as Good as the...
In 2012, a plaintiff who challenged State Farm’s practice of using in-house attorneys to defend its auto insureds against third-party claims asserted that in-house lawyers constitute "a different …...
View ArticleRecent SCOTUS Decisions in Intellectual Property Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court heard a landmark number of intellectual property cases during its 2013-2014 term. Below is a summary of recent decisions issued in 2014....By: Ropes & Gray LLP
View ArticleFlorida Information Protection Act of 2014 Goes Into Effect; Regulator...
Effective July 1, 2014, Florida has repealed its existing data breach law in favor of a new, more stringent, law. Florida has joined the list of states requiring notice to regulators: specifically, an...
View ArticleEPA To Hold Workshop On Trichloroethylene And Potential Safer Alternatives
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that, as part of its work to improve the safety of existing chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Agency will hold a...
View ArticleDigital Privacy’s New Age: Supreme Court Turns off Google’s Radio After...
In another installment of “Google does WHAT?!?,” the Supreme Court on June 30 rejected the Silicon Valley giant’s bid to stop a lawsuit accusing the search company of wiretapping. You read that right....
View ArticleNew procedures, laws crack down on ‘patent trolls’
Q: There’ve been several stories lately about proposed laws intended to crack down on patent trolls. What is a patent troll? A: To understand what a patent troll is, it’s best to first understand what...
View ArticlePrime Minister of Singapore Moves for Summary Judgment in Novel Defamation...
In papers filed today with the High Court of Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong moved for summary judgment in his defamation lawsuit against blogger Roy Ngerng Yi Ling. The prime minister’s...
View ArticleCMS Announces Dates for Sunshine Payment Review, Dispute & Correction Process
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today that the Open Payments review, dispute and correction process will begin on Monday, July 14, 2014 and continue through September...
View ArticleAdvertising Law - July 2014
Online Reviews Not Sufficient To Support Ad Claim, NAD Rules - While recognizing the benefits of using new sources of information, the National Advertising Division (NAD) decided that an advertiser’s...
View ArticleGuest Post: Overview of First Published Comments on Myriad-Mayo Patent...
As readers will be aware, members of the public have been invited to submit written comments to the U.S. Patent and Trademakr Office that present their interpretation of the impact of relevant Supreme...
View ArticleOne year of Data Protection Enforcement in France: what the CNIL’s Activity...
According to the French Data Protection Authority’s (“CNIL”) recently issued activity report for 2013, the CNIL was especially busy in 2013. The main topics addressed by the CNIL in 2013 were the...
View ArticleDOE’s Seventh Annual Biomass Conference
DOE's Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) hosts its seventh annual conference -- Biomass 2014: Growing the Future Bioeconomy -- July 29-30, 2014, in Washington, D.C. Co-hosted with Advanced Biofuels...
View ArticleCourt Lets Plaintiff Revive Mooted Claims In Second Action Against Same...
The Eastern District of New York recently denied a motion to dismiss and found that the plaintiff’s claims were not precluded by a different court’s ruling that the same claims against the same...
View ArticleFederal Circuit Holds That Even Functional Claims Require Structural Fence Posts
In AbbVie Deutschland Gmbh v. Janssen Biotech, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court decision that found AbbVie’s patents directed to anti-IL-12 antibodies invalid for lack of adequate...
View ArticleCMS Releases Proposed 2015 Physician Fee Schedule and Outpatient Prospective...
On July 3, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released its proposed Calendar Year (“CY”) 2015 Physician Fee Schedule (“PFS”) Proposed Rule, to be published in the Federal...
View ArticleEU Cloud Standardisation Guidelines
In November 2012, we wrote an Alert about the European Commission’s Communication on Cloud Computing intended, it said, to “… unleash the potential of cloud computing in Europe”. Sceptics were doubtful...
View ArticleJoinder Defeats the Bar under 35 U.S.C. § 315(b)
In Enzymotec Ltd. v. Neptune Technologies & Bioressources Inc., IPR2014-00556, Paper 19, (July 9, 2014) the Board granted Enzymotec’s motion for joinder of IPR2014-00556 with IPR2014-00003. Absent...
View ArticleToo Good To Be True: FTC’s Crackdown On L’Occitane’s Body Slimming Almond...
L’Occitane Inc’s advertisements for its topically-applied body sculpting almond extracts seemed straightforward: “Almond Shaping Delight 3 out of 4 women saw firmer, lifted skin. This luxuriously...
View ArticleFifth Circuit: FCA Inapplicable to Claims Involving Private Funds...
In United States of America ex rel Rene Shupe v. Cisco Systems, Inc. and Avnet, Inc., No. 13-40807 (5th Cir. July 7, 2014), the Fifth Circuit reversed a district court’s order denying a motion to...
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