Pennsylvania Bio State Official of the Year
Rep. Warren Kampf (R-Chester) has been named State Official of the Year by Pennsylvania Bio. The award recognizes an official from Pennsylvania who has distinguished themselves in the bioscience...
View ArticleAntisocial Media - Union Not Liable For Threatening Facebook Posts
Imagine if you will, that a company-sponsored website allows employees to post comments. During the course of a union strike, an employee who chooses to cross the picket line posts a comment...
View ArticleCaution: Your Company's Biggest Privacy Threat is...the FTC
Technology companies—from startups to megacorporations—should not overlook an old privacy foe: the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Since its inception in 2002, the FTC’s data security program has...
View ArticleAnother Court Holds That Definition of Automatic Telephone Dialing System...
As we have previously discussed, two recent decisions narrowly interpreted the term automatic telephone dialing system (“ATDS”), the definition of which will determine the fate of many TCPA...
View ArticleSupreme Court Hears Argument on Software Patents
On April 1, 2014, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd.v. CLS Bank Int’l, which concerns the patent eligibility of computer-implemented inventions. This is the fourth recent...
View ArticleIntelletual Property Newsletter - March 2014
In This Issue: - USPTO Issues New Guidelines for Determining Subject Matter Eligibility of Claims - Eastern District of Texas Unveils New Patent Case Track - Opening Briefs Submitted to U.S. Supreme...
View ArticleBitcoin - Calls for Regulation - Part Eight
“Virtual currencies”, and bitcoin in particular, continued to attract a lot of attention. The sudden shutdowns of Mt. Gox (Japan), a large bitcoin exchange, and Flexcoin (Canada), a bitcoin bank, led...
View ArticleChip Babcock Speaks: The FCC Backs Down on Newsroom Intrusion – But How Did...
The Federal Communications Commission was scheduled to begin this spring a "Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs." Backed by a 110-page report from two prestigious journalism schools and a...
View ArticleWith Nowhere to Hide, Couch Potatoes Offer Opportunity and Peril for Content...
The emerging home entertainment market is rife with both opportunity and peril for media and entertainment content providers. Home entertainment is increasingly provided through “Smart” devices such as...
View ArticleNo surprises as CJEU upholds website blocking injunctions
The Court of Justice of the European Union (the CJEU) last week upheld the system of website blocking injunctions in place in Austria, following a reference from the Austrian Supreme Court in the case...
View ArticleBitcoin: Regulators and States Out Ahead—Will Congress Follow?
Bitcoin, a decentralized digital currency that facilitates quick exchanges of value, has received steady attention from the media and industry stakeholders. Akin to gold, bitcoins are mined using...
View ArticleSupreme Court Justice Characterizes Alice v. CLS Bank as Being on the Idea of...
April 2, 2014 — The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument on March 31 in Alice v. CLS Bank, the much anticipated case concerning whether inventions executed on computers are patent eligible subject...
View ArticleWhat Does the New Washington Crowdfunding Law Allow?
The Washington State legislature has passed a crowdfunding bill, HB 2023. The Governor has yet to sign the bill, so it is not yet law. But hopefully it will be law soon. If you are wondering what the...
View ArticleAccredited Investor Verification under Rule 506(c)
Bill Carleton has a good post regarding the recent comments from Keith Higgins, the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance, who spoke at the 2014 Angel Capital Association Summit. Higgins...
View ArticleFCC Eases Some Standards for TCPA Consent Compliance Regarding Texting
Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted two declaratory rulings that eased some standards for complying with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's (TCPA) consent requirements...
View ArticlePutative Class Members Cannot Establish Damages In Dietary Supplement Case
In Moore v. GNC Holdings, Inc., Southern District of Florida Judge Dimetrouleas ordered partial summary judgment in favor of GNC and against the class as to plaintiffs’ damages claims under Florida’s...
View ArticleIP Buzz - March 2014
In this issue: - "CANDY" Crushed - DMCA Takedown? Not Without a Registration - Announcements And Reminders - Excerpt from "CANDY" Crushed: From taxi cabs, to subways, to airplanes, to your dinner...
View ArticleLegislature drops forced localization provision as Brazil moves ahead Bill of...
Brazil’s Marco Civil da Internet, the Bill of Law establishing a civil rights framework for the Internet, has been approved by the Brazilian House of Representatives. Next, it will be submitted to...
View ArticleTrademark Review - Covidien and Reynolds (March 2014)
The Board Has Power to Restrict the Scope of a Color Registration - Covidien sought to register a mark that consists of “the color pink (Pantone PMS 806)” as applied to medical connectors and lead...
View Article(Yet another) LCN consultation!
Another chapter to the LCN saga in Italy. As you recall from our previous posts and videos, the LCN, the logical channel numbering for Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting, remains a very controversial...
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