Higher Education Highlights - Spring 2012 by Saul Ewing LLP on 5/18/2012 In This Issue: - Will the U.S. Supreme Court Uphold Race-Based Affirmative Action? pages 1 - 3 - UCLA and Professor Face Fines and Criminal Charges in the Aftermath of Fatal Lab Fire pages 4 - 5 - Law School...more
In re Baxter International, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2012) by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 5/18/2012 In a dissent from the Federal Circuit's affirmance of a Board determination of obviousness, Judge Newman raises a jurisdictional and separation-of-powers argument in In re Baxter International, Inc. that is destined to be...more
EPIC Supports Geolocation Privacy Act, Suggests Improvement by Electronic Privacy Information Center on 5/17/2012 In a Statement for the Record, EPIC has expressed support for H.R. 2168, the "Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act," which prohibits the interception of location information by private parties and government agents...more
School District’s Internet Filtering Software Violated First Amendment by Franczek Radelet P.C. on 5/17/2012 In a recent decision, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Inc. v. Camdenton School District, a federal district court in the Western District of Missouri held that a school district violated the First...more
Venable Vitae - May 2012 by Venable LLP on 5/8/2012 In this issue: - Improper Calculations of Patent Term Adjustment Where Responses Are Timely Filed Under the Next Business Day Rule - FDA Regulations and the Regulation of Constitutionally Protected Speech - FDA...more
New Law Will Let the Feds Monitor Your Email by Lawyers.com on 5/4/2012 A new pending law called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing Protection Act of 2011 (CISPA) might make your email a matter of national security. The proposed legislation could include monitoring of your e-mails, filtering content...more
Abbott Asks FDA to Refuse Certain Biosimilar Applications by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 4/24/2012 In a Citizen Petition filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on April 2, Abbott Laboratories requested that the FDA refrain from accepting biosimilar applications under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation...more
Bottling the Free Flow of Information: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. and EU Database Protection by David Tamaroff on 4/19/2012 Tamaroff Law co-founder, David Tamaroff, was recently published as the lead billing in the Wake Forest Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law. Tamaroff's article, Bottling the Free Flow of Information: A...more
EPIC Urges Justice Department to Investigate Google for Unlawful Wiretapping by Electronic Privacy Information Center on 4/18/2012 EPIC wrote a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder asking the Department of Justice to investigate Google’s collection of Wi-Fi data from residential networks by means of "Street View" vehicles. The Federal Communications...more
Vague Definitions in CISPA Raise Concerns of SOPA 2.0 [Video] by Bloomberg Law on 4/12/2012 April 12 (Bloomberg Law) -- Trevor Timm, activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, talks with Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia about the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a new bill that attempts to...more
Big Brother May be Tracking You by Lawyers.com on 4/12/2012 The government could be tracking your every move, and there’s little you can do to stop it – or even to find out who is watching – according to a recent investigation by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU...more
Second Circuit YouTube Ruling Will Have Major Impact for Online-Piracy Debate by Ifrah Law - Strategic Defense in Federal... on 4/11/2012 What had been touted as a great victory for Google in particular and for “Internet freedom” in general was just dealt a major blow when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower...more
eWorkplace Policies – Social-Media, Privacy & Internet-Security by Fenwick & West LLP on 4/5/2012 Traditional concerns for employers have included: harassing or other discriminatory actions; other conduct leading to liability to third-parties; forbidden fraternizing; criminal activity; “frolic and detour” or other...more
Will the BPCIA go down with Health Care Reform? by Dechert LLP on 4/2/2012 As the Supreme Court’s week of arguments on the constitutionality of the individual mandate provisions of the 2010 health care reform act progressed, the pundits have seemed more and more certain that the Court will find...more
Regulate employee technology use without becoming a target by Lane Powell PC - Labor & Employment Law on 3/27/2012 Throughout the digital workplace, email, social media and text message communications frequently yield the “smoking gun” evidence that results in employment claims against employers. Many employers seek to limit their...more