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ITC Section 337 Update - May 15, 2013

Federal Circuit Affirms Commission Determination That Litigation Activities Unrelated To Licensing Do Not Satisfy Domestic Industry – On May 13, 2013, the Federal Circuit affirmed a January 2012 Commission determination that...more

Demystifying European Antitrust Law

In the first of a series of WSGR Alerts, the firm's Brussels attorneys outline the European Commission's proposed changes to the antitrust rules on licensing patents, software, know-how, and other intellectual property....more

Trade Secret “Watch List”: Bill Would Establish Monitoring List Of Countries Engaging In Cybertheft, And Make U.S. Intelligence...

Here’s another sign of the rising urgency of trade secret theft as a national security issue: the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee wants the head of the nation’s intelligence bureaucracy to track countries that...more

International Internet Privacy Sweep

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has announced that the Federal Trade Commission, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, the OPC and the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - April 2013

In This Issue: - Data-Breach Class Actions After the Supreme Court Decision in Clapper - California Supreme Court Holds That Song-Beverly Credit Card Act Does Not Apply to Online Purchases -...more

Seizure of Electronic Data: Dawn Raid Inspection Guidance Revised

In an era when the vast majority of written communications are made by electronic means, a company’s obligations to cooperate with Commission officials in an “antitrust dawn raid” extend to the granting of access to all...more

Court Allows Service Via Email and Facebook

The Internet is widely used by organizations and individuals to communicate and conduct business globally. Courts are recognizing that traditional methods of serving pleadings and documents may not be sufficient when it comes...more

The Microsoft Internet Explorer Saga: Microsoft Fined €561 Million for Failure to Keep Promises

The European Commission has fined Microsoft €561 million (approximately US$730 million) for failure to abide by a commitment made in 2009 to make a browser-choice screen available to PC-users. The fine is in relation to the...more

Energy Newsletter - March 2013

In This Issue: *REGULATORY: - U.S. Regulatory; EU Regulatory: Cybersecurity Efforts to Secure Critical Infrastructure including the Energy Sector Advance in the United States and European Union -...more

Proposed Amendments to the EU Competition Assessment of Technology Transfers

The European Commission (the "Commission") is considering revisions to the rules governing the assessment of technology transfer agreements such as patent licences in advance of the expiry of the existing rules on 30 April...more

No Standing for Illegal Drugs: Third Circuit Limits Antitrust Standing for Foreign Drug Manufacturers Absent FDA Approval

A Third Circuit panel recently ruled that a foreign drug manufacturer lacks antitrust standing when it could only sell its product in the United States through a distributor....more

Cardroom International LLC v. Mark Scheinberg, et. al. (Ferguson, Chris)

LASC COURT RULING: In Favor of Demurring Defendant Ferguson et. al. moving defendants.

Defendant Chris Ferguson's Demurrer to all 3 of Plaintiff Cardroom's purported causes of action sustained by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elizabeth White: --- Ferguson had argued in his demurrer that Plaintiff’s...more

AstraZeneca v European Commission: Case C-457/10 P

Introduction - On 6 December 2012, the European Court of Justice (the “ECJ”) upheld the judgment of the General Court (“GC”), which found that AstraZeneca (“AZ”) abused its dominant position on the market for proton pump...more

United States Trade Representative (USTR) Announces Results of Special 301 Review of Notorious Markets in December 2012...

USTR Announces Results of Special 301 Review of Notorious Markets and Identifies Marketplaces that Facilitate Global Piracy and Counterfeiting (released 12/13/2012): --- "Washington, D.C. – United States Trade...more

A FRANDlier Realm

Europe’s courts take sides in standards patent disputes - When a patent becomes essential for a product to operate according to industry standards—say, for a cellphone to connect to a 3G network—patent protection can...more

President, Congress Extend Cross-Border Fraud Enforcement Law

On December 4, President Obama signed a bill, H.R. 6131, that extends through December 2020, a law that enhances the FTC’s ability to address cross-border fraud, and particularly to fight spam, spyware, and Internet fraud and...more

UN Commission Publishes Report Of Working Group On Electronic Commerce

Recently, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) published the Report of Working Group IV (Electronic Commerce), reflecting the group’s work during its forty-sixth session, held in late October...more

China Allows Compulsory Licensing

On May 1, 2012, China’s newly released “Measures for Compulsory Licensing of Patent Implementation” (the New Measures) came into effect....more

Supreme Court of Canada Establishes Important Principles in Transfer Pricing

The Supreme Court of Canada recently released its judgment in The Queen v Glaxo Smith Kline Inc.,1 (Glaxo), which is the Court's first pronouncement on Canada's transfer pricing rules. Transfer pricing involves the allocation...more

New App Privacy Icons Supplement Traditional Privacy Notices

The Association for Competitive Technology (“ACT”), an international trade organization that represents more than 5,000 small and mid-size app developers and information technology firms, recently released free app privacy...more

Don't Be Evil To Our Privacy Policy

Google Privacy Policy Update - On Jan. 24, 2012, Google announced it would be updating its privacy policies for almost all of its services by combining them into one privacy notice. Google saw this as an appropriate way...more

U.S. National Security Issues Posed by Chinese Telecommunications Companies Huawei and ZTE

Full text copy of "U.S. National Security Issues Posed by Chinese Telecommunications Companies Huawei and ZTE," the House Committee on Intelligence report that found “the risks associated with [Chinese telecom companies]...more

Patton Boggs TechComm Industry Update - September 27, 2012

- FCC to Seek Comment on Three NPRMs at September 28th Meeting The FCC plans to issue the following Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) at its Friday, September 28th meeting: - Voluntary Incentive Auctions. An...more

Orrick's Antitrust and Competition Newsletter - September 2012

In This Issue: Top Story; Global Developments: United States; Europe; and Asia. Excerpt from Top Story: Patent Licensing in the Cloud: Antitrust Issues This article reviews whether the nature of cloud...more

"Eye on Privacy" Newsletter - September 2012

In this issue: - European Data Protection Law: New European Cloud Computing Guidelines - Court Rejects Privacy Claims Arising from LinkedIn’s Alleged Sharing of Unique Identifiers and Browsing History with...more