Patent Profile: VM Institute of Research Receives Patent for Method of...
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently issued U.S. Patent No. 8,642,270, which is entitled "Prognostic biomarkers to predict overall survival and metastatic disease in patients with triple...
View ArticleNew Mexico Moves One Step Closer to Becoming the 47th State with a Breach...
46 states plus Washington, D.C. have data breach notification laws. Alabama, Kentucky, New Mexico and South Dakota still do not have a comprehensive notification law outside of the public sector. That...
View ArticleAdvertising Law - Feb 28, 2014
9th Circuit Pulls the Shades Down on “Shine the Light” Lawsuit - The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently rejected an appeal of a district court’s dismissal of a claim made under California’s...
View ArticleGerman Court Rules Against Facebook’s “Friend Finder”
On January 24, 2014, in a case filed against Facebook by German consumer protection association VZBV, the Berlin Court of Appeal (“Court”) upheld a lower court ruling that Facebook’s “Friend Finder”...
View ArticleComputer-Aided Method Determined Ineligible Under Section 101 - SmartGene,...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in a decision providing a glimpse into a panel’s post-Alice position with regard to patent-eligibility of computer-implemented inventions (under 35...
View ArticleChina Conditionally Approves Thermo Fisher/Life Technologies Merger: MOFCOM...
The January 2014 conditional clearance decision by the Chinese competition authorities regarding the acquisition by Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (“Thermo Fisher”) of Life Technologies Corporation...
View ArticlePetition for Certiorari Filed Regarding Preclusive Effect of Likelihood of...
In advising clients and making strategic decisions about whether to bring or defend inter partes proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ("TTAB"), trademark practitioners need to...
View ArticleLessons for Marketers from the CFPB Attack on For-Profit Education
We have written recently about the stepped-up scrutiny that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the CFPB) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are placing on for-profit education and related...
View ArticleRisky Business: Target Discloses Data Breach and New Risk Factors in 8-K...
After Target Corporation’s (NYSE: TGT) net earnings dropped 46% in its fourth quarter compared to the same period last year, Target finally answered the 441 million dollar question – To 8-K, or not to...
View ArticleCourt Report - March 02, 2014
About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Watson Laboratories Inc. et al. 1:14-cv-00268; filed February 27,...
View ArticlePackaging that Kills (a Trademark)
Killer packaging is a good thing. It can increase sales and establish a stronger emotional bond between the consumer and the product brand. The current packaging of Snack Factory’s Pretzel Crisps...
View ArticleCovered Business Method Review Is All or Nothing - Liberty Mutual Insurance...
In the final written decision of the second covered business method (CBM) patent review, the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) cancelled all claims under review, noting that instituting a CBM...
View ArticleMinnesota Legislature Convenes
The Minnesota Legislature convened at noon on Tuesday, February 25. It hit the ground running with a minimum wage increase and tax cuts at the forefront. It has already passed a $20 million heating...
View ArticleTrojan Horse Privacy Laws: Facebook Snooping
Privacy laws that protect employees at work historically have been considered sparse and virtually toothless. Only employers that engaged in brazen acts of surveillance or intrusion into employees'...
View ArticleDistrict Court Denies Class Certification and Grants Partial Summary Judgment...
CLEVELAND, OH – February 25, 2014 –Benesch achieved a significant victory for DISH Network L.L.C. when the Federal District Court in Denver, Colorado issued an order and an opinion denying the...
View ArticleWell-Known Technology Is Not a “Substitute Fulfillment” for Patent Eligible...
In a Covered Business Method (CBM) post-issuance review, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) cancelled all claims under review, concluding that the challenged claims were directed to non-eligible...
View ArticleCollective Rights Management Directive Adopted by European Parliament
On 20 February 2014, the European Parliament adopted the collective management of copyright and related rights directive (Directive), which aims to make it easier for online providers to stream music...
View ArticleNew Cellphone Promises Array of Built-in Privacy Features
Consumers will soon have access to a smartphone that automatically encrypts calls and texts, and provides anonymous web browsing, according to reports about the "Blackphone."...By: Davis Wright...
View ArticleSpanish Supreme Court orders Le Monde to pay damages to Real Madrid and FC...
The Spanish Supreme Court has ordered French daily newspaper Le Monde to pay damages of €300,000 to Real Madrid and €15,000 to FC Barcelona for linking the Spanish football clubs to a doping...
View ArticleMessage from New York Court: Rely on CGL Policy Coverage for Data Breaches at...
A New York trial court announced a decision on February 21, 2014, that may be a harbinger of wide-reaching limitations on insurance coverage for data breaches under commercial general liability (CGL)...
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