The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) is the federal agency that is charged with enforcing laws to protect consumers from fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices. Over the past several years, one of the FTC’s focuses has been on companies with allegedly deficient cybersecurity protections. On August 24, the Third Circuit confirmed the FTC’s authority to rule … Continue Reading
Please click here to read the latest data privacy alert from Squire Patton Boggs Data Protection & Cyber Security team. This week’s alert covers news from the EU, Germany and the UK. EU Health Research Group Makes Recommendations on EU Data Protection Regulation Article 29 Working Party Releases Opinion on the Utilization of Drones Germany Bundesrat Advises … Continue Reading
In its fourth decision in the ten-year litigation between Akamai and Limelight, the Federal Circuit again addresses the issue of so-called divided infringement, this time providing guidance on the requirement that only a “single party” can directly infringe. This case had its most momentous turning point last summer, in June 2014, when the Supreme Court … Continue Reading
Please click here to read the latest data privacy alert from Squire Patton Boggs Data Protection & Cyber Security team. This week’s alert covers news from Germany and the UK. Germany DIHT Criticizes Government Draft on the Introduction of Data Retention Hamburg Data Protection Officer: Facebook is Not Allowed to Require Real Name of User Voßhoff … Continue Reading
As more and more new top-level domains (TLDs) are released, companies are often struggling to determine how to manage their ever-growing domain name portfolios. A partner in our London office, explores strategies for managing these new possible domain names registrations, especially in the face of the recent launch of the “.sucks” domain name, in their recent article titled Domain Names … Continue Reading
Please click here to read the latest data privacy alert from Squire Patton Boggs Data Protection & Cyber Security team. This week’s alert covers news from Germany, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. Germany Entrepreneur Must Remove Surveillance Camera Capturing Neighboring House Federal Ministry of the Interior Publishes New Model Contracts Containing No Spy Clause Hong … Continue Reading
In CREW Republic Brewery GmbH v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) (Case R167/2015-4), the Fourth Board of Appeal of OHIM has found that the registration of the word mark DETOX as a Community trademark (CTM) for “beers” in Class 32 is eligible for registration because its meaning is neither descriptive, nor does … Continue Reading
Not everyone knows that the U.S. Copyright Act contains “mandatory deposit provisions,” which require that copies of most copyrighted works be sent to the Copyright Office. Those who are aware of these provisions may believe that they only apply to works that are the subject of a federal copyright application. Although a common misconception, this … Continue Reading
Please click here to read the latest data privacy alert from Squire Patton Boggs Data Protection & Cyber Security team. This week’s alert covers news from the EU and the United Kingdom. EU European Data Protection Supervisor Makes Recommendations for the New General Data Protection Regulation European Court of Human Rights Rules that Privacy Right is More … Continue Reading
