Good morning! This is Akin’s newsletter on climate change policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major climate policy headlines from the past week and forthcoming climate-related events and hearings..…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, International Law & Trade
Following the publication of the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act or Act) on 12 July 2024, there are now a series of steps that various EU bodies need to take towards implementation. One of the first key…
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/ Administrative Law, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal from an inter partes review (“IPR”) final written decision for lack of standing where it found the appellant failed to provide evidence sufficient to show it suffered an injury in fact…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
On September 12, 2024, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) finalized the first major changes to CFTC Regulation 4.7 (Rule 4.7) in over 30 years. Among other technical revisions, the amendments to Rule 4.7, generally…
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/ Business Organizations, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
On September 5, 2024, domestic producers of corrosion-resistant (CORE) steel products and a union filed petitions with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking the…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, International Law & Trade
The Senate has yet to take action on the 21st Century Act (FIT21) (H.R.4763) which passed the House by a comfortable margin of 279-136 on May 22, 2024. FIT21 is a proposed landmark piece of legislation that would enact a…
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/ Finance & Banking, Securities Law, Taxation
The November U.S. Presidential electoral campaign is in full swing. Since President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid and Vice President Kamala Harris secured the Democratic Party nomination, polls now show a tight race between…
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/ Elections & Politics, Health, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology, Taxation
The Federal Circuit recently affirmed an ITC holding that the AIA’s § 102 on-sale bar applies to the sale of a product made according to a secret process when that sale occurs more than one year before the patent’s effective…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
The majority of all 2023 EMEA restructurings involving an equitisation and/or a maturity extension required the provision of new money. While equitisation can solve for an over-leveraged capital structure, and maturity…
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/ Business Organizations, Finance & Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions
Good Afternoon! This is Akin’s biweekly policy newsletter on space policy and regulatory developments, providing information on major space headlines and forthcoming space-related events and hearings..…
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/ Administrative Law, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board exercised its discretion under General Plastic to deny institution of a follow-on petitioner’s request for inter partes review despite determining that the petitioner did not have a “significant…
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/ Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
International Geneva – A global governance ecosystem of over 40 international organizations, 178 country representations and 700+ non-governmental organizations…
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/ Consumer Protection, Government Contracting, International Law & Trade, Nonprofit Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
Welcome to the July edition of Akin Intelligence. This month, United States agencies released several key pieces of artificial intelligence (AI) guidance, including patent eligibility guidance from the United States Patent and…
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/ Civil Procedure, Communications & Media Law, Government Contracting, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
There was a time when ownership of a professional sports franchise was not regarded as a serious business venture. Owning a team, even in one of the major leagues in North America, was regarded as more of a frolic and detour, a…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Business Organizations, Finance & Banking
On August 28, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued a final rule that will, upon effectiveness (January 1, 2026), require most private fund managers to..…
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/ Finance & Banking, Securities Law
