In a previous blog on the use of psychedelics to treat mental health disorders, we reported that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted breakthrough therapy designation to MDMA (a.k.a., ecstasy) in 2017 as part of a…
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/ Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
Be careful when you sell intellectual property (“IP”) in return for future royalty payments. You may think your contract is airtight, guaranteeing you a future annuity on the sales of product relating to your IP, but that might…
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/ Bankruptcy, Commercial Law & Contracts, Intellectual Property
Since the early 2000s, Texas district courts have been battling to maintain their status as the premier venue for filing patent lawsuits. At one point, 43% of all patent infringement cases in the United States were filed in the…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
Womble Bond Dickinson’s content series—Innovation Interchange: The Power of Cross-Industry Insight—explores emerging challenges from the viewpoint of trendsetting industries…
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/ Privacy
As of the distribution of this alert, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) has not yet announced the deadline for this year’s regulatory fee payments. However, as the Commission has a statutory obligation to…
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/ Administrative Law, Communications & Media Law, Labor & Employment Law
As an update to our April 25, 2024 Client Alert, “FTC Issues New Rule—But Not the Final Chapter—on Non-Competes: What Employers Need to Know,” a federal court in Dallas, Texas has blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s Rule that…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Labor & Employment Law
Two recent court Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) cases, a significant amendment to the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA), and the new pilot whistleblower rewards program show that Anti-Corruption Enforcement continues…
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/ Criminal Law, International Law & Trade
The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) has unanimously approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) and Notice of Inquiry (“NOI”), proposing first-of-their-kind AI-generated robocall and robotext rules that would…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
In litigation underlying Satcher v. Columbia County, 2024 WL 3802370 (Ga. Aug. 13, 2024), property owners sued the County related to damage caused by their privately-owned 48-inch pipe that had been used as part of the County’s…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, Environmental Law, Real Estate - Residential
North Carolina lawmakers recently passed a new bill to make the state more appealing to captive insurance companies and risk-retention groups. Senate Bill 319, which passed with unanimous support and was supported by the North…
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/ Insurance, Taxation
The U.S. and the U.K. are focused on common national security risks, including preventing foreign access to key emerging technologies, the integrity of the defense supply chain, protection of critical infrastructure, and…
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/ Government Contracting, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
When scientific evidence is in play, it is often assumed that the most frequently cited articles are published in the most elite journals. However, this is not necessarily true. A journal is ranked according to its impact…
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/ Civil Procedure
The Massachusetts’ Consumer Privacy in Commercial Transactions Act (the “Act”) limits companies’ ability to request and collect personal identification information (“PII”) that is not required for a transaction. The Act does not…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
Federal government contracts are routinely awarded to companies supplying goods and services to U.S. government agencies. According to the Government Accountability Office, in 2023, the federal government committed about $759…
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/ Business Organizations, Government Contracting
Obtaining a return on a tax lien investment can have a long time horizon in Georgia. After purchasing a tax lien, an investor must wait at least a year before foreclosing the right of redemption of the tax debtor, taking…
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/ Civil Procedure, Real Estate - Residential, Taxation
