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International Trade Law: 2024 Year in Review & Outlook for 2025

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Few areas will be as impacted by the incoming second Trump administration as international trade policy. Check out our team’s assessment of what the coming year may bring for trade regulation and enforcement. Husch...more

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Navigating OFAC Sanctions Risks in the Digital Realm: IP Addresses and Effective Controls

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In today's digital landscape, sanctions enforcement has become a critical concern for Financial Institutions (FIs). The borderless nature of cyberspace can make it difficult to monitor and regulate activities that may breach...more

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10 Legal Issues for Nonprofit and Association Leadership in 2024

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As 2024 gets underway, the nonprofit sector will continue to face new challenges in addition to grappling with ongoing challenges that continue to impact the sector. Our interdisciplinary team, serving thousands of nonprofits...more

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Congress, President Align on Powerful New U.S. Intellectual Property Protection Law

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On January 5, 2023, President Biden ushered in the new year by signing into law the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act of 2022 (“PAIPA”), Pub. Law 117-336.1 PAIPA was passed with considerable bipartisan support in...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Top Four Stories of 2022

After reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its 16th annual list of top patent stories.  For 2022, we identified ten stories that were covered on Patent Docs last year that we believe had...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

NFT Regulatory Issues – a 2022 Review and 2023 Preview

Despite the minimal regulatory enforcement actions against blockchain game companies and NFT issuers, now is NOT the time to become complacent about regulatory issues. As indicated below, many U.S. agencies are increasing...more

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Crypto Research Published; USPTO Seeks NFT Input; SEC and FINRA Address Digital Assets; OFAC Settles with Exchange; DOJ...

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New Research and Surveys Address CBDCs, Institutional Crypto Investment - Staff from the board of governors of the U.S. central bank recently published a research paper addressing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)....more

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Just launched: Doing business in the United States 2022

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The U.S. is one of the easiest jurisdictions in the world in which to do business. Regulatory barriers are generally low, establishing a branch or business entity is quick and easy, labor and employment laws are much more...more

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Protecting IP in the Face of Russia Sanctions

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The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) has issued two general licenses relevant to intellectual property matters authorizing transactions that would otherwise be prohibited by the sanctions...more

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Update on Winding Down Russian Patents

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Winding down patents in Russia is no longer mandatory for U.S. companies. On May 5, 2022, the U.S. government declared an exemption to its unprecedented barrage of sanctions on Russia. Without the exemption, the broad and...more

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OFAC Authorization of Certain ‎Transactions Related to Patents, ‎Trademarks, and Copyrights

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On May 5, 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued General License No. 31 (“GL 31”), which makes clear that U.S. Persons may continue to act in the Russian Federation to...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Buying and Selling a File Management, Storage and Transfer Business

Technology solutions for the transfer, storage and management of electronic files and other digital content is vitally important for organizations to meet compliance obligations, ensure adequate data security and to...more

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Update on Protecting Intellectual Property in Russia

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As noted in our client alert on April 20, 2022, Cooley continues to monitor the ever-changing situation in Russia and Ukraine following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Provided below is an update regarding...more

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Russia Sanctions Update: Intellectual Property General License and a Prohibition on the Provision of Some Services

New General License Permits Certain Russia-Related Intellectual Property Transactions - Last week, the Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC) issued four new general licenses, most notably General License 31, which...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Treasury Department Issues General License Authorizing Certain Transactions Related to Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights

On March 2, 2022, the Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") of the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued General License No. 13, which authorized "U.S. persons . . . to pay taxes, fees, or import duties, and purchase or...more

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U.S. Department of the Treasury Issues Update to IP-related Transactions in Russia

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On May 5, 2022, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury published General License No. 31, which authorizes certain intellectual property-related transactions in Russia, including the filing...more

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Client Alert: Intellectual Property in Russia

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The Russian war on Ukraine has resulted in a series of US sanctions and Russian countermeasures that have disrupted the coordination of patent and trademark rights between the United States and Russia. ...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

USPTO Provides Advice Regarding Dealings with Rospatent

Earlier this month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was terminating engagement with officials from the Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) and Eurasian Patent Organization...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Are You Ready for Web3.0 and the Legal Issues it Will Bring?

Blockchain is one of the most significant new technologies since the internet. It has ushered in what has been referred to as Web3.0. Some of the most popular applications of this technology include NFTs and metaverses. ...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

5 Weird Things About the Trump Trade Agenda: Disruptive Innovation On a Global Scale

We’ll give him this: President Trump has an ambitious trade agenda. This fire has many irons in it, and some of them are getting hot. Here at the Global Trade Law Blog, we’ve been following trade law for approximately 250...more

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Trade & Manufacturing - News of Note - January 2018

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The United States Trade Representative (USTR) issued a request for comments and notice of public hearing regarding the 2018 Special 301 Review. The review is a Congressionally-mandated annual review of the global state of...more

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