3/28/2024 8:06:03 PM Reminder: Motivation to Combine Is Still Required to Render Patent Claims Obvious By Jon Thielbar The Federal Circuit recently reversed a PTAB obviousness finding because it found no motivation to combine features of the two cited...
3/28/2024 4:11:28 PM Southern District of New York Rejects Involuntary Third-Party Release in Subchapter V Bankruptcy Case By Noah Weingarten Bethany 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...
3/27/2024 4:00:21 PM 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...
3/25/2024 5:38:57 PM 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...
3/22/2024 6:38:58 PM USPTO to Allow E-Signatures but Foreign Jurisdictions Still Require Ink Signatures By Bill Kramer While e-signatures have been accepted for transactions in many facets of life for years, the USPTO finally has approved e-signatures for...
3/19/2024 4:13:27 PM 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...
3/15/2024 11:10:47 PM 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...
3/13/2024 9:08:10 PM 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...
3/12/2024 10:05:25 PM Patent Protection for AI-Assisted Inventions By Jon Thielbar Only “natural persons” can be named “inventors” on U.S. patents. But last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued...
3/11/2024 3:22:44 PM 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,...
3/9/2024 1:20:28 AM FDA Denied Boehringer’s Citizen Petition Concerning Humira®, Reaffirming Its Interpretation of “Strength” to Include “Concentration” for Biologics By Loeb & Loeb The Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (“BPCIA”) created an abbreviated pathway for the licensure of biosimilar and...
3/8/2024 5:28:39 PM 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...