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Introduction - US sanctions restrictions have traditionally exempted exchanges of information and informational materials. However, because the prohibitions on exports of software and services are sufficiently broad to...more
Companies doing business in China should take careful notice that China is now paying more attention to personal data privacy collection. This would be an opportune time for private companies to internally review existing...more
UNDERSTANDING AND TARGETING THE CONSUMER - Now more than ever, retailers need to focus on delivering relevant content, products and services to meet the individual needs of consumers. Retailers need to better...more
Les médias n’ont de cesse de se faire l’écho d’attaques de botnet à l’assaut de Spamhaus, de flaming worms voleurs d’informations stratégiques au Moyen-Orient ou des dommages causés par Stuxnet, l’arme fatale capable de...more
The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (“MIIT”) issued a draft new Catalogue of Telecommunications Services 2013); the “Draft Catalogue”) for public comment on May 23, 2013. While the proposed...more
In March 2013, the National People’s Congress of China formally changed the name of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) to the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA), elevating it back to a ministerial-level...more
In August 2012, the Federal Circuit issued an opinion in InterDigital Commc’ns v. Int’l Trade Comm’n, No. 2010-1093, reversing and remanding the International Trade Commission’s finding of no violation in Certain 3G Mobile...more
Five years after the ALRC recommended that mandatory data breach notification obligations be included in Australian privacy laws, the Privacy Amendment (Privacy Alerts) Bill 2013 (Bill) which addresses this recommendation,...more
Most significantly, on June 3, 2013, President Obama issued Executive Order 13645 (78 Fed. Reg. 33945) that, effective July 1, 2013, implements provisions of the Iran Freedom and Counter-Proliferation Act of 2012 and imposes...more
Pharmaceutical and medical device companies have enough to worry about when it comes to enforcement risks....more
In this ever-growing world of global digital media, U.S. digital media providers are increasingly finding themselves subjected to the varying, and in some instances, evolving laws related to intellectual property protection...more
In January 2013, President Obama announced in his State of the Union Address that the United States will begin negotiating a US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership later this summer. One of the key issues that...more
Janet Cord and Ray Diperna, partners at Ladas & Parry LLP, discuss the pros and cons of patents in protecting inventions....more
Joe Villapol and Ralph Cathcart, partners at Ladas & Parry LLP, discuss use-based trademark protection in the United States....more
Joe Villapol and Ralph Cathcart, partners at Ladas & Parry LLP, discuss strategies to prevent your mark from becoming generic....more
Dennis Prahl, partner at Ladas & Parry, discusses how companies can match their trademark expansion with their commercial strategy....more
Dennis Prahl, partner at Ladas & Parry LLP, discusses the role of trademarks in building a global brand....more
Defenses based upon a patentee’s failure to provide reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) license terms are becoming a bigger issue and more common as more patentees sue companies on patents they claim are essential to...more
Bowman v. Monsanto Co. - Decided: 5/13/2013 - Patent - Holding: (9-0) Patent rights are exhausted for only original seed sold. Bowman, a farmer, purchased and planted Monsanto’s patented...more
Acquiring rights to U.S. and European technologies has become a priority for Chinese companies — as well as national policy. “Large state-owned companies possess phenomenal production capacity, but generally lag in R&D and...more
Privacy law is once again on the Government’s legislation reform agenda with the introduction recently of the Privacy Amendment (Privacy Alerts) Bill 2013. The Bill if passed will amend the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) to introduce...more
Pharmaceutical and medical device companies have a raw deal when it comes to domestic and foreign bribery. ...more
The Morrison & Foerster BioMeter for the first quarter of 2013 shows a flat quarter for BioMeter value and a decline in dealmaking activity. A small number of large deals dominate an otherwise quiet quarter. In the...more
In conjunction with the Government’s ongoing Export Control Reform Initiative, the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) in the Department of Commerce is introducing some useful web-based tools for exporters. Three new...more
A Berlin court ruled that eight clauses in Apple Sales International's (“Apple”) standard data use policy, which covers how the company can share data, do not comply with Germany’s privacy protection laws and enjoined Apple,...more
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