Medical Device Update: FDA Medical Device Guidances Issued in 2014’s Second...
In recent months, the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has issued draft and final guidance documents at a relatively fast pace. To assist...
View ArticleHealth Update - July 2014
Avoiding the Regulatory Land Mines of Commercial ACOs - While providers are showing great interest in creating ACOs to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), they are showing even...
View ArticleWhat’s Old is New Again—Insecure Remote Access
When a merchant is suspected of being the victim of an account data compromise event, they are often required by the card brands to hire a Payment Card Industry Forensic Investigator (PFI). The PFI...
View Article"FTC Continues Vigorous Section 5 Enforcement"
On July 21, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) accepted a consent agreement, subject to final approval, to settle charges with two Internet resellers of Universal Product Code (UPC)...
View ArticleSecretary of the Treasury Lew Urges Financial Institutions to Enhance Their...
Secretary of the Treasury Jacob J. Lew presented remarks at a conference hosted by CNBC and Institutional Investor in which he urged financial institutions to increase their cybersecurity defense...
View ArticleFDA Draft Guidance Aims to Clarify Appropriate Character-Space-Limited Social...
As technology continues to evolve, so do the ways in which patients and healthcare providers obtain information pertaining to medical products regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)....
View ArticleFTC Publishes revised COPPA FAQs, clarifies parental consent methods
The FTC has issued three new FAQs clarifying the “verifiable parental consent” requirements under the COPPA Rule. In one of the revised FAQs, the FTC reiterates that the COPPA Rule’s list of parental...
View ArticleML Strategies’ Energy & Environment Update: July 2014 #3
The House Appropriations Committee approved July 15 a fiscal year 2015 spending bill for the Interior Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, and related agencies after Republicans opposed...
View ArticleHRSA Issues Interpretive Rule on 340B Drug Pricing Program
On July 21, 2014, the Health Resource and Services Administration (HRSA) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a new interpretive rule addressing the treatment of orphan...
View ArticleUpdate from UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
Will it happen? Well, “if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck then its probably a duck”. All the indications are that the Regulation will happen. We have to assume it will....
View ArticleWe Don’t Need No Intervention: Qui Tam Relator in Omnicare Wins Big Without DOJ
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced the settlement of two qui tam whistleblower lawsuits against Omnicare Inc., the largest nursing home pharmaceutical and pharmacy...
View ArticleThis Little Piggy Went to the Trademark Office…
When was the last time you thought about pigs? What do you think when you hear the word “pigs?” Or an OINK OINK noise? Or what about the angelic and oh-so-American, “SOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEYY!”?...By:...
View ArticleThe Google Tornado: Just How Ground-Breaking Is The "Right To Be Forgotten"
The recent decision of the European Court of Justice relating to Google and the "right to be forgotten", enabling citizens from the European Union to request search engines operating in Europe to...
View ArticleAustralia awaits Federal Court guidance on the patentability of...
Anyone with an interest in the patentability of computer-implemented inventions in Australia has been awaiting judgment in the appeal to the Research Affiliates LLC v Commissioner of Patents decision....
View ArticleAllergan, Inc. v. Apotex, Inc. (Fed. Cir.)
Case Name: Allergan, Inc. v. Apotex, Inc., No. 2013-1245, -1246, -1247, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 10710 (Fed. Cir. June 10, 2014) (Circuit Judges Prost, Reyna and Chen presiding; Opinion by Prost, C.J.;...
View ArticleKickstarting an Old Patent System for the New Software Era
Software patents have been having a rough time of it lately. It seems everyone has something bad to say about them, from the courts to the press, and even some software engineers. Originally Published...
View ArticleWebsites and Apps Have More COPPA Options
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently approved an additional method for website operators and mobile application ("app") developers to obtain parental consent to collect identifying information...
View ArticleFTC Updates COPPA FAQs Again – Revisions to Part H Gives App Developers and...
Continuing our Blog’s updates on the Federal Trade Commission’s Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to the updated Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule, we highlight that the FTC revised...
View ArticleProduct Liability Update - July 2014
In This Issue: - Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Holds Foreign Manufacturer Which Pled Meritorious Personal Jurisdiction Defense in Answer, But Did Not Move to Dismiss, Forfeited Defense By...
View ArticleStewart Title Guaranty Co. v. Segin Software, LLC (PTAB 2014)
On April 12, 2013, Segin Software sued Stewart Title and several other parties for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 8,165,939. The defendants filed a petition with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office...
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