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European Data Protection Supervisor Suggests Path After Parliament Dismisses Privacy Shield Draft Image

European Data Protection Supervisor Suggests Path After Parliament Dismisses Privacy Shield Draft

Ricci Dipshan

On May 26, coming less than two months after the Article 29 Working Party rebuke of the Privacy Shield, the EU parliament voted 501 to 119 on a resolution calling for negotiations on the agreement to continue. Its criticisms of the text echoed that of the Working Party, namely the Privacy Shield's insufficiency in dealing with U.S. mass surveillance, protecting EU individual data rights and protections, and effectively enforcing its regulations.

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Lender Beware: Ignore Suspicious Activity at Your Own Peril Image

Lender Beware: Ignore Suspicious Activity at Your Own Peril

David Kupetz

Recently, the Seventh Circuit held that a lender who should have discovered that its borrower lacked authority to pledge assets is not protected by a good-faith defense to a fraudulent transfer action. Without this defense, the lender lost its security. Should the priority of the lender's claim should be further reduced through equitable subordination?

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DC Circuit Upholds FCC Net Neutrality Rules Image

DC Circuit Upholds FCC Net Neutrality Rules

Zoe Tillman & C. Ryan Barber

A federal appeals court in Washington on June 14 upheld expansive federal regulations that require broadband internet providers to treat Internet traffic equally regardless of its source.

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Federal Circuit Applies a Reasonableness Standard to the Knowledge of Infringement Prong Image

Federal Circuit Applies a Reasonableness Standard to the Knowledge of Infringement Prong

Matthew Siegal & Mord M. Lewis

The Federal Circuit decision in Medtronic highlights the tension faced by alleged patent infringers, who must balance invalidity issues where a broad construction is desirable, against non-infringement issues, where narrow constructions are desired.

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<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Page and Plant's Win in 'Stairway to Heaven' Case Seen as Bolstering Songwriters' Creative Rights Image

<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Page and Plant's Win in 'Stairway to Heaven' Case Seen as Bolstering Songwriters' Creative Rights

Amanda Bronstad

June 23's verdict for Led Zeppelin in the copyright trial over the 1971 hit song 'Stairway to Heaven' reaffirms the creative rights of songwriters while demonstrating the difficulties in pursuing infringement over sheet music, according to legal experts following the case.

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Traits of Future Equity Partners Image

Traits of Future Equity Partners

Kris Butler

In the last 10 years, I have coached hundreds of attorneys as an internal career coach at Holland &amp; Knight. Some of those associates left law entirely and are now writing novels, playing professional baseball, and flying airplanes. Others have gone in-house or to work for the government. Many of the associates have become non-equity partners, and some are equity partners. Here are some things I have learned about the ones who aim for partnership in a large firm.

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New Federal Legislation On Trade Secrets Image

New Federal Legislation On Trade Secrets

Michael P. Broadhurst, Kevin M. Passerini & Leigh Ann Buziak

After years of discussion, Congress recently enacted federal legislation establishing a private right of action for misappropriation of trade secrets, vesting the federal courts with original jurisdiction over the litigation of such claims. After signaling his support for some time, the President signed the bill into law May 11.

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Update on Legal Issues in Resales of Event Tickets Image

Update on Legal Issues in Resales of Event Tickets

Shepard Goldfein & James Keyte

Ticketing policies for sporting and other events have been receiving increased attention in both the media and legal spheres.

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New USPTO Rules for Post-Grant Trials Image

New USPTO Rules for Post-Grant Trials

Kean J. DeCarlo

New changes to rules for post-grant administrative trials before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) went into effect on May 2, 2016, after much public comment and gnashing of teeth. Among the plethora of rule changes that were announced, two in particular stand out as most substantive for both patent owners and their challengers.

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Fundamental Issues In U.S. Taxation of Foreign Entertainers and Athletes Image

Fundamental Issues In U.S. Taxation of Foreign Entertainers and Athletes

Robert M. Jason

The United States taxes its citizens and resident aliens on their worldwide income; nonresident aliens are taxed on their U.S. source income and income that is effectively connected with a trade or business in the U.S. These seemingly simple terms have spawned volumes of regulations, rulings, cases and articles, the essence of all of which is to determine who is subject to tax in the U.S., and on what. This article introduces the U.S. federal income tax issues.

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