The US International Trade Commission is a powerful and cost-effective weapon in the ongoing brand protection war, but remains underused.

A case involving a request by a deceased man’s relatives to access his Yahoo! email account, which was denied by Yahoo!, highlights the difficulty of balancing electronic privacy with the rights of those claiming a legitimate reason to access online content.

"Natural," "All Natural" and "Sourced from Nature" are claims that we see every day. Products with these claims have come under attack in a tsunami of class action filings filed in California and elsewhere.

Harley Geiger published "Offensive Security Under the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act" in the November-December 2024 edition of the Privacy & Cybersecurity Law Report. The following is an excerpt:

On June 16, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 ("OSRA 2022"), which amended the Shipping Act of 1984 ("the Shipping Act"). Among the various...

Venable attorneys produce periodic alerts and newsletters covering a variety of topics and practice areas.

Almost two years ago, the Federal Trade Commission released a draft of its revised Green Guides.

Voting for the crowd-sourced education sessions at the 2013 ERA Great Ideas Summit closes on October 26, 2012.

On January 31, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it received 744 eligible entries before the January 17 submission deadline for its Robocall Challenge.

As the G7 leaders met this week with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, the United States and allies introduced a new, coordinated package of sanctions to ramp up the pressure against Russia for its aggression in Ukraine.

A recent case out of the Southern District of New York demonstrates some of the limits to protecting and successfully litigating over a trademarked phrase.

On February 5, the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus (NAD) announced that Anheuser-Busch could support the claim that Michelob ULTRA Light Cider contains one-third fewer calories than an average of "the leading regular ciders."

The dockworkers union along the East and Gulf Coasts is threatening to strike on October 1, should there be no agreement with transportation providers by the end of September.

"Native advertising" is in a neck-and-neck race with "big data" to be 2013’s advertising buzzword of the year.

On August 13th, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a second version of its draft guidance on medical foods.

On August 29, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced in a press release that it had sent warning letters to 14 window manufacturers and one manufacturer of window glass.

As discussed in our second entry in this series, the SBA has proposed to establish presumptions of affiliation through identity of interest in certain circumstances.

Jeff Tenenbaum's message in the EO Tax Journal's EOTJ Mailbag regarding the NFL's decision to relinquish its federal tax-exempt status and the challenges it may face during the conversion process...

In the wake of the recent Ebola outbreak, President Barack Obama has met regularly with U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) leadership and has held direct discussions with state and local officials concerning the administration's domestic preparedness response.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB" or "Bureau") recently announced it was ending a controversial practice of sending enforcement attorneys on supervisory exams, over a year after it was asked to stop by groups representing supervised financial institutions.