Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP – By James F Brelsford & William J Casey – Standard essential patent (SEP) owners have long licensed their patent portfolios, including both SEPs and non-SEPs, on a global basis. But recent divergence, including in China and other jurisdictions, regarding what royalty base is appropriate to use when licensing […]
Michelman & Robinson, LLP – Overall, Big Data is slowly transforming the way insurance companies do business. Insurers use Big Data through analytic technologies and predictive modeling to improve overall performance, obtain more accurate pricing, deepen customer relationships, and improve loss prevention mechanisms. Big Data is information mined from structured and unstructured sources, including customer onboarding documents,
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The technology, media and telecom (TMT) sectors will continue to see significant merger and acquisition activity over the next five years as consolidation and innovation continue to fuel deal-making. The new forecast by Baker & McKenzie, published in association with Oxford Economics, predicts more than $2.6 trillion of deals to be completed within the sector
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Manatt – The June 22 FTC blog posting warning consumers about the use of bitcoins and other virtual currencies should be a call to action for those accepting or facilitating the acceptance of bitcoin and other virtual currencies in consumer transactions both online and through mobile apps. While the posting is directed to consumers using
Cooley – ByMatthew Brown, Scott Dailard, Randy Sabett – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has brought over 50 cases against companies that put consumer data at unreasonable risk. On June 30, 2015, the FTC released a guide titled Start with Security that summarizes 10 lessons the FTC has culled over the course of these cases.
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Seyfarth Shaw – With New York joining in last year, nearly half the country has laws permitting state residents to use marijuana for medical purposes, and a handful even permit recreational use. California led the movement when it passed the so-called “Compassionate Use Act” in 1996. At present, use and distribution of marijuana remain federal
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Robins Kaplan – Predictions suggest that the global market for cloud computing services should reach $118 billion by the end 2015 and climb as high as $200 billion by 2018.1 Although the cloud computing industry continues to be in its infancy, organizations of all sizes have embraced cloud computing because of its promise as an
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The immigration process is one of the most complicated aspects of moving to another country. An illegal move can land you in hot soup. It is, therefore, important to understand what it takes to become a legally authorized immigrant/citizen of the US. Let’s have a look at what makes an immigrant legal in the US.
“Sanctions Relief Under the P5+1 Agreement With Iran: Implications for US, EU and International Business” Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP | Jamie L. Boucher, Bernd R. Mayer, William J. Sweet, Jr., Eytan J. Fisch, Francois Michaud, Richard W. Roeder Editor’s note: This article was updated on July 23, 2015, to reflect certain additional
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP | Boris Bershteyn, Daniel B. Weinstein Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect Supreme Court decisions through June 29, 2015. As the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2014-15 term concluded, the Court resolved several cases with potentially wide-reaching implications for a range of important policy and business issues.
