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Stephen L. Tupper | Dykema

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...

Jeana R. Long | Dykema

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...

Marsha Gentner | Dykema

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...