Introducing the New Multi-Level Marketing Governing Act
Taiwan has approximately 369 multi-level marketing (MLM) companies and a total of 3.09 million MLM participants, as of December 31, 2012. Adjusting for people who participate in more than one MLM...
View ArticlePun Marks Are Fun Marks! Then Why Is Chewy Vuiton OK, But Not Ben & Cherry’s?
Last year a California porn studio, Caballero Video, paid dubious homage to Ben & Jerry’s® (“B&J”) when it launched a “Ben & Cherry’s” film series. Even the less explicit titles in the...
View ArticleWarning: Upcoming Enforcement Action – CBBB Announces Compliance Deadline for...
The Council of Better Business Bureaus (“CBBB”) has issued a Compliance Warning letter announcing that, beginning January 1, 2014, the CBBB will commence enforcement actions against website publishers,...
View ArticleThe Dutch Competition Agency Focuses on Anticompetitive Signaling
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) – the Dutch competition agency – has indicated that public statements about future market behavior could infringe competition law. This is the...
View ArticleIs there a “Slim” chance that the Mexican Telecom Reform is implemented?
I was asked this very question by Ralph Watzke, a Canadian lawyer. It is understandable that the presence of telecom mogul Carlos Slim, could decrease the expectations of investors, and force them to...
View ArticleCongress Passes New Drug Compounding Law Increasing Federal Oversight Over...
In the fall of 2012, a meningitis outbreak sickened more than 750 people, killing 64 people and leaving many others with pain and nerve damage. The meningitis was traced back to tainted injectable...
View ArticlePatients Push Back on FDA Threats to 23andMe Genetic Testing Products
In a petition published on the "We the People" portion of the White House website, a group of self-titled healthcare consumers call for the Obama Administration to overrule the FDA and permit genetic...
View ArticleRecent Ruling Clarifies Patent Litigation Timing Under Biosimilars Act
The first court decision interpreting the Biosimilars Act has arrived, with a federal district court in California finding that a biosimilar application must be filed with the FDA before patent...
View ArticleThe Download - November 2013
In this issue: - Senator Markey and Representative Barton Reintroduce Do Not Track Kids Act - House Bipartisan Working Group Continues Discussion on Privacy - Federal Trade Commission Holds Workshop on...
View ArticleAdvertising Law -- Nov 27, 2013
FTC Shoots Down COPPA Compliance Request Based on Social Networking - The Federal Trade Commission has denied an application from AssertID seeking the agency's approval of a proposed method of...
View ArticleFDA’s Message to Medical Device Company: Stop
The widely publicized start-up company 23andMe, Inc. markets its “personal genome service product” as providing reports on hundreds of diseases and conditions that enable users to “take steps toward...
View ArticleWeek in Review - November 27, 2013
Social media and technology seem to be doing more harm than good in the workplace this week. A new study suggests that some employers may be using Facebook profiles to discriminate against job...
View ArticleThree Point Shot
Sports and Hollywood have long been inextricably linked – many athletes want to be and even become actors, countless actors have lived out their athletic fantasies on the silver screen, and it is no...
View ArticleSalient Lessons For Australian Applicants Of US Diagnostic Patent Applications
In the latest decision concerning diagnostic method claims a US Court1 has provided some guidance to the diagnostics industry on the interpretation of the recent Supreme Court decisions in Mayo v...
View ArticleKey Points: Compounding Quality Act
The Compounding Quality Act (CQA) amends the U.S. Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act (Act) to create a new, voluntary category of compounders called "outsourcing facilities" (OF). Compounded drugs are those...
View ArticleSenate Holds Hearings on Virtual Currency
In the wake of a recent hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs regarding the threats and promises of virtual currency, the value of Bitcoin soared above the...
View ArticleEuropean Commission Proposes New Ground Rules for US Safe Harbor
(LONDON) The European Commission, which has the authority to make changes to the US Safe Harbor program, has published a paper titled “Rebuilding Trust in EU-US Data Flows” that sets out the changes...
View ArticleOnline streaming of free-to-air TV channels: Why the approach taken by the...
While in the UK the law in relation to the live streaming of free-to-view television channels has been resolved, following the reference to the CJEU and the High Court decision in the TVCatchUp (TVC)...
View ArticleMyriad Genetics Sues Invitae over BRCA Gene Testing and Invitae Sues Right Back
The latest company targeted by Myriad Genetics for offering a genetic diagnostic test encompassing the human BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 genes is Invitae Corp. located in San Francisco. Myriad sued Invitae on...
View ArticleThe Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Lazy Cakes Suit Where Product...
On November 18, 2013, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a putative class action suit against HBB, LLC. Cheramie v. HBB, LLC, Case No. 12-55148 (9th Cir. Nov. 18, 2013). HBB...
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