15 Oct, 2024 CBO Pours Cold Water on Retail Pricing Impact of Legislation to Expedite Generic Drug and Biosimilar Entry By Jim Czaban The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has just released a report that seems to cast shade on recent legislative proposals that aim to...
09 Oct, 2024 Bankruptcy Court Refuses to Grant Liens on Avoidance Claims By Noah Weingarten Bethany D. Simmons In In re BDC Group, Inc., No. 23-00484, 2024 Bankr. LEXIS 2105 (Bankr. N.D. Iowa), the Iowa bankruptcy court held that a pre-petition...
12 Sep, 2024 FDA Serves Up a Stricter Enforcement Standard for Celebrities Endorsing Rx Drugs By Jim Czaban Being a celebrity has its challenges. Adding a new one to the list, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently issued an...
26 Aug, 2024 Third Circuit Decision Provides a Cautionary Tale in Negotiating Future Payment Rights By Bethany D. Simmons Noah Weingarten In MaIlinckrodt PLC v. Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC, No. 23-1111, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a Delaware...
22 Aug, 2024 Adieu, Fake Revie(u)w By Libby O'Neill It’s here! The Federal Trade Commission's (FTC’s) final rule banning fake reviews and testimonials, that is. Some of you may remember...
21 Aug, 2024 Allergan Holding Protects "First-Filed" Parent Patents from Their Misbehaving Patent Offspring By Jonathan B. Thielbar This month, in Allergan USA, Inc. v. MSN Laboratories Private Ltd., the Federal Circuit added to the ongoing patent-family drama...
30 Jul, 2024 Another Bankruptcy Court Refuses to Dismiss Cannabis Case By Noah Weingarten Bethany D. Simmons As previously reported here, bankruptcy courts appear increasingly willing to allow debtors with businesses related to the cannabis...
30 Jul, 2024 Reminder from the FTC: Hashing Doesn't Make Data Anonymous By Jessica Lee The FTC published a blog post reminding companies that hashing data is not (on its own) enough to render data anonymous. Hashed IDs and...
24 Jul, 2024 Nasdaq Proposes to Amend Rule to Limit the Ability of Its Hearings Panel to Give SPACs Additional Time to Complete a Business Combination By Giovanni Caruso On July 15, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a Nasdaq rule proposal that would amend its rules to...
12 Jul, 2024 SEC Issues Guidance on Material Cybersecurity Incidents By Giovanni Caruso In a continuing effort to regularize the disclosures provided by companies under new Item 1.05 of Form 8-K, the U.S Securities and...
10 Jul, 2024 New Illinois Law Mandates Influencers to Compensate Child Participants By Lisa Wiznitzer A new Illinois law that took effect on July 1 mandates that parent influencers compensate their children for appearing in content. This...
10 Jul, 2024 California's Privacy Agency Opens Public Comment for Data Broker Registration Regulations By Allison Cohen Administering the data broker registration process has proven a challenge for the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) due to the...