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Phil Albert, a partner in Haynes Boone's Intellectual Property Practice, and Nora Titus, an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice...

The sanctions imposed by the UK, European Union and US following the recent invasion of Ukraine by Russia target the Russian economy. Whilst Russia is the largest country in the world...

Dispute resolution clauses in a contract provide the parties with an agreed approach to resolve any disputes that arise under the contract. We often find that during contract negotiation, ...

By Eugene Goryunov David McCombs Jonathan Bowser March 25, 2022 Patent Trial and Appeal Board post-gra

On September 23, 2020, the SEC announced amendments to its shareholder proposal rule, Exchange Act Rule 14a-8, which governs the process by which shareholders may submit proposals to be included in a company's proxy materials ...

After months of negotiations, the COVID-Related Tax Relief Act of 2020 (the "Act") was signed into law by President Trump on December 27, 2020.

Earlier this month, the English Commercial Court upheld an appeal from an arbitration in MUR Shipping BV v RTI Ltd [2022] EWHC 467 (Comm) that a "reasonable endeavours" requirement...

Nirvana files new complaint after discovery calls into question whether Kurt Cobain was truly the artist behind the band's highly-recognizable design..

On February 9, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced proposed new rules related to cybersecurity risk management for registered investment advisers, registered investment companies, and funds.

On March 16, 2022, China's Supreme People's Court ("SPC") issued the Judicial Interpretation of Anti-Unfair Competition Law ("2022 Interpretation") (《最高人民法院关于适用<中华人民共和国反不正当竞争法>若干问题的解释》),...

In an effort to ease the transition to the new DOCX filing format for non-provisional utility patent applications, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently announced it...

On Sunday, December 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law a COVID-19 relief and government spending bill entitled the "Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021."

In any large construction project there is likely to be a chain of subcontractors beneath the head contractor, and even the smallest link in that chain may have the power to...

In October, the Fifth Circuit's Robertson v. Intratek Computer, Inc. explained what would be required of a whistleblower statute for that statute to displace an arbitration agreement.

Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) further explained the "on-sale" bar in Junker v. Medical Components, Inc., Case No. 2021-1649 (Feb. 10, 2022).

"The One, Big, Beautiful Bill" (H.R. 1, 119th Congress) (the OBBB) is a tax package advanced as a part of the proposed Defending American Jobs and Investment Act.

Two important government institutions—police departments and the judicial system—largely function in a black box.

In March 2022, the courts within the Fifth Circuit decided a usual mix of matters including the explanation of the procedure and burden for challenging an arbitration agreement in Dickson v. Continuum Glob. Sols...