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New Jersey Bidders Beware – If in Doubt, Challenge the Specifications!

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A New Jersey public entity has just issued a request for bids falling within the scope of products or services your company provides. Although interested in submitting a responsive bid, the specifications give you pause. Your...more

Troutman Pepper

CFPB Calls for Increased Specificity and Accuracy on Reasons for Credit Denials When Lenders Employ Artificial Intelligence

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When using artificial intelligence (AI) or complex credit models, can lenders rely on the checklist of reasons provided in Regulation B sample forms for adverse action notices? According to today’s guidance issued by the...more

Perkins Coie

A Fish Tale: California Court Dismisses Claim Against Sub Maker For Lack Of Specificity

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Key Takeaway: As consumer demand for “sustainable” products grows, so does the risk of litigation challenging sustainability claims on advertising and packaging. As one recent case shows, failure to plead actual reliance can...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

On the Patent Eligibility of Graphical User Interfaces: Part II

This article is Part II of a study on the patent eligibility of graphical user interfaces.  Part I was published yesterday.  We continue from where we left off, with overviews of a handful of Federal Circuit § 101 decisions...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

The Goods on IP - October 2019: Curver Luxembourg v. Home Expressions: Words Can Matter in a Design Patent

Claim construction for a design patent is mainly focused on the drawings, which show the ornamental design that is protected by the patent. But the Federal Circuit recently identified one situation where the drawings weren’t...more

International Lawyers Network

Can Design Patents Be Limiting in Enforcement?

Suppose that you have an invention disclosure for a design of an article that you want to protect?  When you review the invention disclosure, you notice that the design is ornamental, for example a pattern, on an article such...more

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It’s Not Just About the Money (or Privacy): The Role of Specificity, Technology, and FRCP Rule 26

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What Does Rule 26 Say about Scope and Proportionality? In 2015, when the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended, the issue of scope and Rule 26 was a hot topic of discussion, mainly around the issue of costs. But...more

Jones Day

No Institution When Petition Lacked Sufficient Specificity

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Petitioners beware. The PTAB will not “play archaeologist with the record” or assume the burden of making arguments if the Petitioner fails to present the asserted reasons for invalidity with the required specificity. Amazon...more

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Striking out total cost claims

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A "global" or "total cost" claim is one in which the damages calculation is derived from the total cost of the work incurred by a contractor, minus the bid amount. Such claims are increasingly used by contractors where...more

Snell & Wilmer

Data Security Update: 11th Circuit Vacates FTC Order Against LabMD

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Earlier this month, in a much anticipated decision, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) cease and desist order against LabMD, Inc. The 11th Circuit concluded that the FTC’s...more

Dechert LLP

Appellate Court Directs FTC to Be More Specific in its Data-Security Orders

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In a closely watched data-security case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacated as unenforceable a cease and desist order issued by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against LabMD, Inc. According to...more

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Sixth Circuit Hears Oral Argument in FCA Appeal

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently heard oral argument in connection with a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee that primarily raised two FCA questions...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

CBAs Must Specifically State Intent to Arbitrate Statutory Rights

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The Court of Appeal has held that unless a collective bargaining agreement includes an explicitly stated, clear and unmistakable, intent to waive the right to a judicial forum for statutory causes of...more

Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

Federal Whistleblower Statutes Aren’t a Cure-All

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When Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank Acts, it included protections for employees who blow the whistle on wrongdoing by their employers. However, those whistleblower protections don’t apply to every report of...more

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Winning an Alice Challenge Requires Specificity

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In light of Enfish and DDR Holdings, software patent owners are quick to point out how their inventions improve the functioning of the computer itself. However, it is well understood that simply improving the functioning of...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Second Circuit Says that Overtime Claims Lacking Specificity Fail

On August 5, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued its third opinion since May of this year in Dejesus v. HF management Services, LLC, affirming the dismissal of Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) claims...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Second Circuit Rules that a "Bare-Bones" Complaint Rephrasing the Text of the FLSA is Insufficient to State an Overtime Claim

In Dejesus v. HF Management Systems Services, LLC, No. 12-4565 (2d Cir. Aug. 5, 2013), the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of plaintiff Ramona Dejesus’ (“Plaintiff”) Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”)...more

Sands Anderson PC

Crossing the Line into Genericide

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Trademark attorneys constantly tell clients not to use their trademarks as a noun or a verb; trademarks are adjectives that describe who makes a specific product or offers a specific service. To allow your trademark to be...more

Perkins Coie

Food Litigation Newsletter - February 2013

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In This Issue: - Court Rules that Yogurt Dispute Belongs Before the FDA - Conclusory Allegations that Advertising is “False and Misleading” Fail Minimum Pleading Standards - 5-Hour Energy Authorized To Sue...more

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