On September 11, 2019, the California Legislature passed Assembly Bill 5, a landmark employment bill that imposes the “ABC” test on California businesses and workers in determining whether a worker...

Recent news reports will have highlighted for many commercial parties the existence of the litigation funding industry. In the past five years it has grown into a multibillion dollar industry and the ...

On Friday, lawyers and litigants finally got an answer to a long-standing question “that has brewed for several years” in the Fifth Circuit: does the Texas Citizens Participation Act, Texas’s anti-SLA...

On July 24, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) announced charges alleging that Facebook, Inc. (“Facebook”) made misleading public disclosures regarding the hypothetical risk of m...

Starting tomorrow, August 3, 2019, foreign entities and residents no longer can file for United States federal trademark protection without U.S. counsel … with some exceptions. This is per a new rule ...

Reflagging or dual registration of British-registered vessels passing through the crowded waterway may not be the solution in a time of rising international tensions.

On July 1, 2019, Item 407(i) of Regulation S-K went into effect, requiring registrants to provide additional disclosure of policies or practices related to hedging of their equity securities by employ...

In BTG Int’l Ltd. v. Amneal Pharms. LLC, the Federal Circuit affirmed the decisions of the PTAB and the District Court in a consolidated appeal addressing whether generic versions of an anti-cancer dr...

In Enzo Life Sciences, Inc. v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. (2017-2498, 2017-2499, 2017-2545, 2017-2546, Fed. Cir. June 20, 2019, unsealed July 5, 2019), an opinion written by Chief Judge Pr...

So-called scandalous or immoral trademarks now can receive federal trademark protection, although this change is unlikely to impact most corporate brand owners.