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ECTA Anti-Counterfeiting Committee Report October 2021 – FY 2020

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I. Legal developments - 1. Next Investments, LLC v. Bank of China, No. 20-602 (2d Cir. 2021) In 2013, Nike, Inc. ("Nike") and Converse Inc. ("Converse") brought a trademark infringement action under the Lanham Act against...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

The First Circuit Court of Appeals confirms government’s expansive authority to search electronic devices

In a closely watched decision, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit confirmed the government’s expansive authority to search cell phones, laptops, and other electronic devices at the border. On February 9, 2021, the...more

Cozen O'Connor

Notice of Appeal - Spring 2020

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Background - A Company received a grand jury subpoena under the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”) seeking information about an employee of one of the Company’s customers, who was the target of a criminal investigation. The...more

Morgan Lewis

Important Clarifications in the Federal Circuit Acetris Decision

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In addition to standing behind the plain language of the definition of a “US-made end product,” the court in Acetris Health, LLC v. United States provided new guidance regarding limits on Customs and Border Protection...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Federal Circuit Revolutionizes Country of Origin Analysis for Pharmaceuticals

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has just rejected the longstanding U.S. government position that the country of origin of pharmaceuticals in the context of U.S. government procurement is determined by where the active...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Federal Circuit Confirms Limits to the Suspension of Liquidation in Scope Disputes

Antidumping and countervailing duty orders address unfairly priced and subsidized imports that enter the United States. Each order contains a “scope” that identifies in part the “class or kind” or merchandise covered by...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Continued Developments in Challenges to Customs’s Enforcement of Section 337 Exclusion Orders in Disputes Before the U.S. Court of...

At the end of 2018, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) issued an opinion in One World Techs., Inc. v. United States. In that decision, Judge Choe-Groves concluded that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Red Notice Newsletter - August 2018

ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS - $34 Million SEC Settlement for Legg Mason - On August 27, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Legg Mason Inc. will pay more than $34 million to settle an...more

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

Trademark Practice Update: Scandalous? Immoral? It's all Good

On December 15, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that the Lanham Act’s prohibitions on registering scandalous and immoral marks discriminated based on content, and violated the First Amendment (In...more

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

Immigration Fact and Fiction for the U.S. Employer: More on CBP Searching Electronic Devices – What is Left of the Fourth...

As mentioned in a prior blog post, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can conduct searches of individuals departing the United States, a fact that many are not aware of. In fact, the rule that failure to declare...more

Tonkon Torp LLP

Temporary Restraining Order Halts Trump Administration Executive Order of January 27, 2017

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As has been widely reported, on Friday, February 3, 2017, the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington issued a temporary restraining order impacting the Trump Administration Executive Order issued...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Federal Court Temporarily Halts Suspension of Travel to U.S. for Previously Affected Foreign Nationals

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Immediate Stay of Trump’s Executive Order has been denied and travel ban remains halted for now. On Friday, February 3, a Federal District Court in Washington issued a temporary restraining order...more

King & Spalding

ITC Section 337 Update – March 2016

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BriarTek IP, Inc. Petitions for Writ of Certiorari - On February 10, 2016, BriarTek IP, Inc. filed a petition for writ of certiorari to review a judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that...more

Orrick - Employment Law and Litigation

Age is Just a Number: Ninth Circuit Ruling in Age Discrimination Case Adopts Seventh Circuit’s “Rebuttable Presumption” Approach...

On August 3, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision in France v. Johnson, holding that an average age difference of less than 10 years between an Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Introducing Personal Liability Into Corporate Negligence: An Analysis of the Trek Leather Decision

Are you an owner or officer of a small or midsize business? An import or trade compliance professional? Someone whose job responsibilities include some aspect of the process of importing merchandise into the United States,...more

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