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New USPTO IDS Fees Raise Strategic Stakes for Biotech Filings

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Key Takeaways- Effective Jan. 19, 2025, the USPTO implemented a new fee framework for IDS submissions, charging up to $800 for applications that list more than 200 references. The change is aimed at curbing over-disclosure...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Unallocated Risks—A New Approach to Sports Betting Regulation

“Myths,” wrote the great mythologist Joseph Campbell, “are public dreams.” In America, a founding myth is that competition, pure and unalloyed, is not merely good, but trustworthy....more

Bodman

Federal Appeals Courts Split on NLRB Remedial Authority

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Two late-October decisions from different circuit courts highlight a divide over the scope of the National Labor Relations Board’s (“the Board”) remedial powers. The Fifth Circuit’s Hiran Management decision curtailed the...more

Robinson+Cole Environmental Law +

New General Permit for Connecticut Remediation Contractors

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) has issued a new general permit for remediation contractors, known as the General Permit to Act as a Contractor to Contain or Remove or Otherwise...more

Mayer Brown

Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill introduced to Parliament

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The United Kingdom's government introduced the Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (the "Bill") to Parliament on 12 November 2025. The Bill is designed to update and strengthen the existing...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

Keeping Cool When ICE Arrives: Basic Raid Response Strategies for Laboratories

Since January, there have been almost daily media reports about federal government agents conducting operations intended to sweep up individuals who are in the U.S. illegally. The primary agency responsible for these...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Draft Bill Would Put Crypto Primarily Under CFTC Oversight

A bipartisan discussion draft of a bill by Sen. John Boozman (R-AR) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) proposes giving primary oversight of cryptocurrency to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, lessening the jurisdiction of...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Cities Relying on Housing Overlays May Face "Builder's Remedy" Under New Court Decision

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California's Second District Court of Appeal recently held that local governments cannot satisfy their Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) obligations by using zoning "overlays" that allow, but do not require,...more

Fish & Richardson

ITC Round-Up: Q3 2025

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In the third quarter of 2025, the International Trade Commission issued public orders addressing various contested issues, including bonds and the scope of exclusion orders, as well as touched on the importance of litigants...more

Wiley Rein LLP

FCC Systems Back Online Post-Shutdown; Media Bureau Announces Revised Deadlines

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The FCC’s systems and databases that were affected by the government shutdown are available for use as of November 18, 2025. In four separate Public Notices released on November 17, 2025, the FCC announced revised...more

Winstead PC

No Bailout for Bureaucratic Inertia: NYDEC Ordered to Implement Albany’s Climate Commitments

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In a ruling with sweeping implications for New York’s climate policy, an Albany trial court ordered the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC or Department) to issue long-overdue regulations under the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

An Overview of the Over-the-Counter Monograph Drug User Fee Amendments (OMUFA): Policy Areas to Watch

On November 12, 2025, President Trump signed H.R. 5371, the Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026, into law (P.L. 119-37). In addition...more

A&O Shearman

Northern District Of Illinois Denies FTC’s Request To Block GTCR Acquisition Of Surmodics

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On November 10, 2025, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings of the Northern District of Illinois (“N.D. Ill.”) issued an oral decision declining to block GTCR BC LLC’s (“GTCR”) proposed $627 million acquisition of Surmodics,...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

False Claims Act Insights - Understanding HIPAA Disclosures When Responding to CIDs in FCA Investigations

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Jonathan Porter welcomes colleague Claire Postman to discuss how healthcare providers approach HIPAA when responding to civil investigative demands in False Claims Act investigations. Jonathan explains that providers often...more

A&O Shearman

Naming and shaming: The UK High Court Backs FCA In “Exceptional Circumstances”

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The High Court has handed the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) fresh legal cover to name firms under investigation where “exceptional circumstances” are said to exist, dismissing a judicial review brought by an anonymous...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Roadmap to DACPA: The Time to Prepare and Engage Is Now

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If your business is connected in any way to the digital asset industry, then you should pay attention to Illinois’ new law regulating digital assets. Illinois recently passed the Digital Assets and Consumer Protection Act...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

No Action for No-Actions: SEC Announces Significant Change in No-Action Relief During the 2025-26 Proxy Season

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On November 17, 2025, the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Division”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) announced it will not respond to, and will express no views on, requests for exclusions of...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

U.S. EPA and Army Corps Propose Revisions to Definition of WOTUS

On November 17, 2025, U.S. EPA and the Army Corps announced proposed revisions to the 2023 definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) which the Agencies expect “to be deregulatory in nature” – i.e. narrowing the...more

Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

Navigating Medical Device Regulation and IP Protection in the United States (Part 2 of 2)

In the United States, medical device regulation and intellectual property (IP) protection are governed by complex statutory and regulatory frameworks that are distinct from—but closely related to, and in some cases...more

Volpe Koenig

From Shield to Sword: Using Examiner-Considered Art to Beat § 325(d)

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In an Inter Partes Review (IPR), Petitioners have long been told to avoid relying on prior art the examiner already “considered,” for fear of triggering a discretionary denial under 35 U.S.C. § 325(d)....more

Troutman Amin LLP

BREAKING: FCC Votes To Adopt Massive FNPRM On Caller ID Requirements and Combating Overseas Robocalls — And The TCPA As We Know It...

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In a packed open meeting held October 28th, the Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to adopt the Improving Verification and Presentation of Caller Identification Information Further Notice of Proposed...more

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Class Action Decisions Published October 2025

Highlights from this issue include: District Court Jurisdiction and Rule 23(f) Appeals. The Fifth Circuit held the filing of a Rule 23(f) petition does not divest the district court of jurisdiction to withdraw and reissue a...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

Shutdown Aftermath: SEC Staff to Consider Only Shareholder Proposal No-Action Requests Challenging Propriety of Proposals under...

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The Division of Corporation Finance (the “Division”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) released a statement today indicating that it will not respond to no-action requests by companies seeking to exclude...more

Ice Miller

The Federal Government Reopens - And Tackles Hemp-Derived THC

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In October, Congress and the President were unable to agree on several funding bills, which resulted in a “lapse in federal appropriations,” known to most of us as a “government shutdown.”...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Proxy Season Update: SEC will not respond to Most Shareholder Proposal No-action Requests

On November 17, 2025, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance issued a statement regarding no action letter requests related to Rule 14a-8 shareholder proposals....more

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