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Strategies Pending EU Safe Harbor 2.0: Companies consider consent, contracts, binding corporate rules
On October 6, 2015, the European Court of Justice struck down the U.S. Safe Harbor that allowed U.S. enterprises to legally move personal data from the European Union (EU) and the rest of the European Economic Area (EAA) to the U.S. In invalidating the Safe Harbor, the court removed a tool upon...
Read MoreTime-Barred Debt Claims Dependent on Jurisdiction: Crawford’s finding that filing a stale proof of claim violates the FDCPA faces challenges
Last year, the Eleventh Circuit was the first to hold that a debt collector engages in deceptive, misleading, unfair or unconscionable conduct in violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (the FDCPA) by filing a bankruptcy proof of claim on a debt that is barred by the applicable statute...
Read MoreKnow Your Domain: An audit of Internet domain names can become an undiscovered asset on the bottom line
At a recent panel discussion, the IP counsel of a major corporation recounted that he had done an inventory of his company’s domain names and found over 5,000 of them. He culled the list to the ones that made business (and legal) sense to have and got rid of the rest, saving what must have...
Read MoreFood & Beverage | Healthcare | Medical Devices
Disastrous Results Await New Drug Safety Rule: Generics face flood of suits if preemption defense slips away
Over the past few years, generic drug manufacturers, whose prescriptions account for 86 percent of the market and 29 percent of total U.S. drug sales, have achieved significant legal victories. These include two Supreme Court decisions finding that federal law preempts state law failure-to-warn and...
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Say What?!? Think you own the website you paid to build? Think again.
Imagine this scenario: your marketing team has decided that your company’s website is out of date and not particularly effective in serving existing customers or attracting new ones. Additionally, although the current outside web development company was once the recipient of lavish praise...
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