Ropes & Gray attended the SuperReturn International conference in Berlin this month, which attracted over 5,000 decision makers from private capital who came together...

On February 5, 2014, a federal court dismissed a challenge to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General’s ("OIG") March 26, 2013 Special Fraud Alert ("2013 SFA") on physician-owned distributors ("PODs").

This coming Wednesday, September 9th brings the return of Practising Law Institute's Advanced PTAB Trial Strategies.

In a long-awaited move with broad implications for brand owners, on Monday, June 20, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved plans to launch a potentially unlimited number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs).

At the federal district court the requesting party can simply lay out a reasoned basis for trying to seek certain categories of information. At the Board, though, an attorney needs to begin with a threshold piece of evidence as a starting point.

Earlier this week the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) released the sixth installment of its Motion to Amend Study. The study tracks and analyzes all motions...

The risk of an early, negative determination will only put the Patent Owner in a worse position by undermining any settlement value to amended claims.

Beginning last month, the Northern District of Illinois (or the "Court") modified its Mandatory Initial Discovery Pilot Project (the "Pilot Project") in ways that should come as a relief to corporate

Last month the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) designated Ex Parte Jung 2016-008290, "informative."

As part of a year-end consolidated appropriations act signed into law on December 20, 2019, Congress acquiesced to heavy criticism leveled by the nonprofit sector and retroactively repealed

On September 11, a Ropes & Gray team secured a significant victory on behalf of Veolia Energy Boston, Inc. in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

On September 28, 2013, China’s State Council published a plan titled Opinions on Promoting the Development of the Healthcare Services Industry, which outlines policy initiatives and development goals for China’s healthcare services industry to achieve by 2020 (the "Plan").

As the year progresses, key client concerns include fostering speak-up cultures, improving internal investigations, leveraging integrated data analysis, exploring root causes of issues, and conducting portfolio-wide risk benchmarking, all emphasizing the critical role of organizational culture.

Third Point LLC has filed suit against the auction house Sotheby’s in the Delaware Court of Chancery seeking to invalidate Sotheby’s "poison pill."

On September 6, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a cease-and-desist order settling charges that Lawrence Polizzotto, the former head of investor relations at First Solar, Inc., a solar energy company, violated Regulation FD.

The SEC issued a no-action letter stating that it would not require certain finders helping to facilitate a private M&A transaction to register with the SEC.

Target corporations in M&A transactions frequently disclose management projections upon which a target corporation's board and financial advisor have relied.

The Division of Corporation Finance (the "Division") of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") released a statement today indicating that it will not respond...

On May 7, 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor (the "DOL") announced a new temporary enforcement policy in anticipation of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ...

This coming Friday, May 1st, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) will conduct a ‘Boardside Chat" webinar from noon to 1 p.m. ET. The webinar will address logistics for virtual proceedings, public remote viewing...