The Swedish Data Inspection Board has, on March 26, 2008, rendered decisions in five cases regarding exceptions from Section 21 in the Swedish Personal Data Act concerning whistleblowing schemes.

The disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will be far-reaching and profound.

The week of June 22 brought significant disruption to the federal appropriations process, with Senate markups postponed due to Senator McConnell's absence and House floor action stalled following President Trump's intervention on housing legislation. As both chambers navigate partisan gridlock and procedural obstacles, the path forward for FY2027 appropriations remains uncertain, while OMB's $87.6 billion supplemental funding request adds another layer of complexity to an already challenging legislative lan

A company's market assessment relies to 87% on intangible assets such as Intellectual Property and industrial property rights.

The growth of firms' IP portfolios poses several challenges for the management of IP.

The bill of lading's evolving style and format reflect the progression of transportation as an industry, culture and technology-dependent business over thousands of years. That's fitting, inasmuch as the bill of lading's purpose since Roman times has been just that: to be an alter ego of the freight it documents.

China’s Anti-Monopoly Law ("AML") has been in force for 19 months. At present, the provisions dealing with merger control are the primary focus of AML regulatory enforcement endeavours, and several decisions under these provisions by China’s Ministry of Commerce ("Mofcom") have generated significant international headlines.

We often hear about how China’s merger review "diverges" from other jurisdictions, most recently in reaction to conditional approvals of the Seagate/Samsung and Western Digital/Hitachi mergers.

The Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China ("MOFCOM") has published its Interim Rules on the Assessment of the Effects of Concentrations of Undertakings on Competition ("Rules"), effective September 5, 2011.

Thanks to an impressive showing in April, digital health investment in the first half of 2014 totaled $2.676 billion.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently ventured into the electric vehicle technology space, but only to invalidate a patent related to networked charging stations

The Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act, 2015 ('Amendment Act') was passed by both houses of parliament in the winter session, pursuant to which it has received Presidential assent on 31 December 2015.

The Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act, 2015 (Amendment Act) was notified in the Official Gazette on 1 January 2016.

On 13 August 2010, China's merger control agency — the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) — published its verdict on the Novartis/Alcon transaction on its website. MOFCOM allowed the proposed acquisition of Alcon by Novartis to go ahead, subject to conditions.

A couple of months ago I posted on the new "20 day goods" administrative claim enacted as part of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 ("BAPCPA"). BAPCPA, which took effect in October 2005, added Section 503(b)(9) to the Bankruptcy Code giving vendors an administrative priority claim for "the value of any goods received by the debtor within 20 days before" the date the bankruptcy petition was filed, as long as "the goods have been sold to the debtor in the ordinary

In an age of rapid technological advancements, Nigel Feetham discusses the future of the boardroom.

On March 11, 2019, Nvidia Corporation (a US-based developer of graphics processing units (GPUs)) announced its intention to acquire Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand...

In early October, the case filed by Fractus SA against ADT was dismissed with prejudice after the parties settled on the eve of a trial before Eastern District of Texas Rodney Gilstrap.

The latest report from Foley & Lardner relating to Employee Benefits developments.

A renaissance of epic proportion is quietly underway in the United States, where 4,000-pound objects will soon be motoring alongside us on freeways, through intersections, crosswalks...