Philip Piletic – Some lawsuits filed against businesses are frivolous ones, and some are just downright ridiculous, like the case of Overton v. Anheuser-Busch. In that case, Richard Overton filed suit against the beer company for false advertising. The bikini-clad beauties pictured in the television commercials failed to materialize in his living room even after […]
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Pillsbury – We predicted last year that 2016 would be the year of Pokémon. This prophecy came true last week within just two days of the Pokémon Go launch. The location-based augmented reality mobile game/app quickly surpassed Tinder in daily users and neared Twitter’s totals (and as of yesterday, surpassed them), with its users spending
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Morrison & Foerster* – Earlier this year I helped moderate a lively panel discussion on the social-media business and legal trends. The panelists, who represented well-known brands, didn’t agree on anything. One panelist would make an observation, only to be immediately challenged by another panelist. Hoping to generate even more sparks, I asked each panelist
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Freshfields – Planning for the future The Leave vote in the Brexit referendum is set to trigger a period of major uncertainty for business. There may be significant implications for employers and their workforces but the precise nature and scope of those implications remain unclear. This is because no-one knows quite what the withdrawal process
White & Case – This checklist is designed to set out some of the key questions which businesses will need to consider in their initial planning phase as they evaluate their existing structures and operations and the potential impact of Brexit on them. Any such review of the issues at this stage has to be
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Proskauer* It was widely reported that on the June 5 episode of the HBO program, Last Week Tonight, John Oliver forgave nearly $15 million of medical debt. That’s not quite right. This blog explains what really happened and why the forgiveness did not cause the debtors to recognize “cancellation of debt income” (“COD”) for federal income
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Spilman Thomas & Battle PLLC – The shale boom has given rise to another, less welcome boom: the bankruptcy boom. Thirty-five exploration and production (“E&P”) companies sought bankruptcy protection between July 1, 2014, and December 31, 2015, and this appears to be only the tip of the iceberg. According to Deloitte, 35 percent of the
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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP The U.S. International Trade Commission (“ITC”) last week launched an investigation into United States Steel Corporation’s (“U.S. Steel”) complaint that Chinese hackers stole trade secret information—including proprietary methods for making lightweight steel—on behalf of Chinese steel producers. In its complaint filed with the ITC last month, U.S. Steel alleged
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Baker & McKenzie – In the U.S. alone, trade secret theft costs innovators an estimated $450 billion per year and constitutes a threat to U.S. security and the U.S. economy. Thanks to increasing employee mobility, data transfer capabilities, and globalization, trade secret loss is a growing threat to innovators worldwide. U.S. courts have recognized the
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Slaughter & May – The issue of whether hyperlinking falls within the scope of copyright protection is of fundamental importance to all those who use the internet. Two years after the ECJ considered the legality of hyperlinking in the case of Svensson (C-466/12), the Advocate General (AG) has delivered its opinion in GS Media BV
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