28 Mar, 2024 Reminder: Motivation to Combine Is Still Required to Render Patent Claims Obvious By Jonathan B. Thielbar The Federal Circuit recently reversed a PTAB obviousness finding because it found no motivation to combine features of the two cited...
28 Mar, 2024 Southern District of New York Rejects Involuntary Third-Party Release in Subchapter V Bankruptcy Case By Noah Weingarten Bethany D. Simmons In In re Hal Luftig Company, Inc., the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Judge Denise L. Cote), denied...
27 Mar, 2024 Are You A Social Media Platform? If so, Florida Has New Rules for You. By Jessica Lee This week, the Governor of Florida signed HB 3 (an act relating to online protections for minors into law), which will require social...
25 Mar, 2024 Tennessee Leads the Charge in Codifying Legislation to Combat AI Misuse By Bess Morgan On Thursday, March 21, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed into law a bill amending Tennessee's right of publicity statute, the “Personal...
22 Mar, 2024 USPTO to Allow E-Signatures but Foreign Jurisdictions Still Require Ink Signatures By William J. Kramer While e-signatures have been accepted for transactions in many facets of life for years, the USPTO finally has approved e-signatures for...
19 Mar, 2024 The Fifth Circuit Grants an Emergency Stay of the SEC's Newly Adopted Climate-Related Disclosure Rules By Giovanni Caruso Earlier this month, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted rules related to climate-related disclosures (see the fact...
15 Mar, 2024 SEC Fines an Advisory Firm $950,000 for Failing to Timely File a Schedule 13D By Giovanni Caruso In March 2024, an advisory firm settled charges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it failed to file a Schedule...
13 Mar, 2024 Are FDA Astronauts Coming Soon? Implications of the Revolution in Space-Based Drug Manufacturing By Jim Czaban Recent news reports have described the successful progress of at least one company, Varda Space Industries, in developing a space-based...
12 Mar, 2024 Patent Protection for AI-Assisted Inventions By Jonathan B. Thielbar Only “natural persons” can be named “inventors” on U.S. patents. But last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued...
11 Mar, 2024 Advertising Aspirations for Reducing Environmental Impact Invites Charges of Greenwashing By David Mallen Last week, the New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against JBS USA Food Company, leading producer of beef products,...
09 Mar, 2024 FDA Denied Boehringer’s Citizen Petition Concerning Humira®, Reaffirming Its Interpretation of “Strength” to Include “Concentration” for Biologics By Dan Liu The Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (“BPCIA”) created an abbreviated pathway for the licensure of biosimilar and...
08 Mar, 2024 SEC Charges a Former CEO with Making False Statements Through an Anonymous Social Media Account By Giovanni Caruso Late last month, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged the CEO of a public company with making false and misleading...