Recently, the Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB decision finding that a private sale of a product did not constitute a public disclosure by the inventor of the product. The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act provides exceptions for…
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/ Intellectual Property
Designed for busy in-house counsel, compliance professionals, and anti-corruption lawyers, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important international anti-corruption law and enforcement developments from the past month,…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Criminal Law, International Law & Trade
The Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) just announced two developments impacting the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced technologies sectors. Specifically, BIS imposed the first export controls…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
This article is part of a monthly column that provides takeaways from recent bid protest cases. This installment highlights three decisions from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Each of this month's decisions…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting, International Law & Trade, Labor & Employment Law
On September 11, 2024, OFAC announced its Interim Final Rule to Extend Recordkeeping Requirements from Five to 10 Years. The Interim Final Rule (IFR) was published in the Federal Register on September 13, 2024. Public comments…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade, Government Contracting
Double-check before swiping right. Ubiquitous dating app Tinder scored a court victory when the U.S. District Court in New Jersey ruled in Ciapinska v. Tinder that the arbitration clause in the app’s terms of use (TOU) is…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Intellectual Property, Privacy
Morrison Foerster Investigations + White Collar Defense partner Nate Mendell, former Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, hosted the fourth episode of When Your Life Sciences Are on the Line, where leading…
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/ Health, Products Liability, Science, Computers, & Technology
Last year, California passed three first-in-the-nation climate laws imposing disclosure obligations on thousands of companies with a presence in California. In October of 2023, California signed into law AB 1305, requiring…
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/ Business Organizations, Environmental Law
What Makes a Case Exceptional? Panel: Chief Judge Moore and Judges Lourie and Albright,[1] with Judge Albright authoring the opinion. You should read this case if: you are seeking or opposing an award of attorneys’ fees under 35…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
Lingo Telecom, a Georgia-based VoIP service operator, has agreed to pay a $1 million fine for using AI-generated deepfake technology to spoof President Joe Biden’s voice in a series of robocalls. A Louisiana political consultant…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Communications & Media Law, Elections & Politics, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
After more than a year of scrutiny and commenting on lawsuits brought by others, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) finally entered the algorithmic price-fixing fray in its own right. On August 23, 2024, DOJ, along with eight…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection, Real Estate - Residential, Science, Computers, & Technology
Immersive technologies are at the forefront of innovation in the consumer technology and life sciences industries, but regulators are struggling to fit these devices, which blend clinical software with commercial headsets,…
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/ Consumer Protection, Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) issued a final rule bringing the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) into alignment with changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) that reorganized Part 23 on…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Government Contracting
On July 30, 2024, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) that would expand the FDIC’s role under the Change in Bank Control Act of 1978 (CBCA). The NPR seeks, in part, to…
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/ Finance & Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities Law
The Federal Trade Commission has finalized a new rule aimed at curtailing false, misleading, and otherwise fraudulent reviews on online retail sites. Fake reviews are a significant problem for the big e-commerce platforms, given…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Intellectual Property, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
