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An immense wave of Dodd-Frank litigation will sweep the federal courts this year, following two years of desultory rule-making by the relevant federal agencies.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has thrown the concept of criminal liability for misbranding by means of off-label-use promotion into turmoil in <i>United States v. Caronia.</i>
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The new Guidance raises the question of how much, if any, knowledge and control of a subsidiary's bribery, as opposed to its actions generally, the government believes is necessary for a parent to be held liable under the FCPA's anti-bribery provisions ' and whether the answer is different for the DOJ than for the SEC.
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Highlights of the latest franchising news from around the country.
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Proponents of mandatory arbitration clauses were given a victory in November when the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a decision by the Oklahoma Supreme Court in which the Oklahoma court had ruled that an employment non-compete agreement could be reviewed by a state court, despite an arbitration requirement in an employment contract.
Highlights of the latest intellectual property news from around the country.
Advertisers and marketers should watch <i>The Estate of Buckminster Fuller v. Maxfield & Oberton Holdings, LLC</i> closely to see what limits may exist on their use of a name that has ties to a celebrity as well as a separate object.
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A recurring issue in intellectual property law is the possibility of establishing rights in subject matter from the public domain and drawing the boundaries between what is public and private. The issue arose in one guise in <i>Golan v. Holder</i>, 132 S.Ct. 873 (2012), which upheld the constitutionality of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (or, informally, Copyright Restoration Act), granting U.S. copyright protection to certain works that had passed into the public domain in the United States, but which were still protected in their country of origin.
