L’Oréal Smooths Things Over With FTC, Reaches Proposed Settlement Regarding...
On June 30, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had reached a proposed settlement with L’Oréal USA, Inc. related to the Commission’s investigation of anti-aging claims made in advertisements...
View ArticleCourt Excludes Defense Damage Expert's Royalty Base Where Expert Based...
ThinkOptics, Inc. ("ThinkOptics") filed a patent infringement action accusing several Defendants of infringing three patents: U.S. Patent Nos. 7,796,116; 7,852,317; and 7,864,159. As explained by the...
View ArticleML Strategies’ Energy & Environment Update: July 2014 #2
During the past several years, Europe has installed about 2,000 offshore turbines (6,500 MW of offshore wind generation capacity), with capacity doubling since 2010. Offshore wind provides almost 1% of...
View ArticlePursuit of a “Smoking Gun” May Be a Recipe for Disaster
In the U.S District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Judge Matthew F. Kennelly recently held that plaintiffs alleging price-fixing in the text messaging market were not entitled to an...
View ArticleComments Due August 25 on Comcast-Time Warner Cable-Charter Merger/Spin Off...
FCC Sets Up Teams to Review Transactions - Last week the FCC made two important announcements concerning its review of the applications filed for approval of the Comcast – Time Warner Cable – Charter...
View ArticleD. Mass. Grants Summary Judgment to Plaintiff, Finds Predictive Dialer to be...
The District of Massachusetts recently entered summary judgment in favor of a plaintiff after deferring to FCC statements that purport to expand the definition of an automated telephone dialing system...
View ArticleAftermath of the Supreme Court Ruling regarding Patent-Ineligible Abstract...
Readers are likely aware that the Supreme Court of the United States has issued a ruling, in Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International, et al. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF...
View ArticleEU: Commission recommends principles to Member States to promote effective...
On Monday 14th July, the European Commission issued its Recommendation for the principles that Member States should consider adopting for the further protection of the consumers of online gambling...
View ArticleSEC: The New Cyber-Cop
It seems scarcely a week goes by without a headline blaring news of a major cybersecurity breach. And with ongoing revelations about the data-tracking activities of the National Security Agency, the...
View ArticleFood Product Liability in Canada - July 2014: Five drivers of litigation and...
The things we eat and drink can harm us as well as help us, a simple fact that has long made the food and beverage products industry a target for health and safety-related litigation. In recent years,...
View ArticleComments Due August 25 on Comcast-Time Warner Cable-Charter Merger/Spin Off...
If you haven’t been closely monitoring developments in the FCC’s review of the Comcast – Time Warner Cable – Charter merger and spin-off transactions, then you may have missed some critical...
View ArticleSEC Releases New Guidance on Accredited Investor Determination and Verification
On July 3, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued six new Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (CDIs) regarding the determination and verification of accredited investor status...
View ArticleFCC Announces Effective Date for CAF Program Reforms and Seeks Comments on...
On July 9, 2014, the Federal Communications Commission (the “FCC”) published the Connect America Fund Program (“CAF”) Report and Order, Declaratory Ruling, Order, Memorandum Opinion and Order, Seventh...
View ArticleDaubert Déjà Vu
Plaintiff’s expert is excluded for relying on a “novel” methodology to support opinion that antidepressant drug causes birth defects. - On June 27, 2014, in In Re: Zoloft, U.S. District Judge Cynthia...
View ArticlePolice Retirement Sys. V. Intuitive Surgical: Opinion
Keker & Van Nest attorneys Michael Celio and Cody Harris have secured a complete vindication for Intuitive Surgical Inc., a leading manufacturer of cutting-edge robotic surgery devices, from an...
View Article[Video] What is Graphene? Fenwick Patent Attorney Has the Answer
The technology and life sciences communities alike have been raving about new "wonder material" graphene for the past year. From applications for wearable devices to the creation of lightweight,...
View ArticleFlorida’s New Data Breach Notification Law And What It Means for Florida...
The Florida Information Protection Act of 2014 (the “Act”) became effective July 1, 2014 and replaced Florida’s previous data breach notification law. Under the Act, all Florida businesses must take...
View ArticleNRDC Petitions EPA to Commence Special Review for Neonicotinoid Pesticides
On July 7, 2014, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a petition requesting that EPA commence a Special Review for the neonicotinoid...
View ArticleCapital Thinking: Technology and Communications
Legislative Activity - House Commerce SUBCommittees Will Hold Hearing ON 21st Century Technology for 21st Century Cures - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Communications and Technology...
View ArticleCalifornia Court Grants Hospital Summary Judgment on Data Breach Claim
In its recent decision in Eisenhower Medical Center v. Superior Court, 226 Cal. App. 4th 430(Cal. App. 4th Dist. 2014), the Court of Appeal of California, Fourth District, had occasion to consider...
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