In the "standard" trade secret misappropriation case, Company A's trade secret is misappropriated by Company B and used internally by Company B alone to gain an unfair advantage.

A pair of suits from designers Nike and Hermes are raising new questions regarding how Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) intersect with trademark protections.

On July 31, 2025, the USPTO issued a memorandum announcing that, starting from September 1, 2025, it will interpret its own rule 37 C.F.R. § 42.104(b)(4) as limiting the IPR grounds that can be brought before the Office.

The United States Supreme Court has been asked to resolve a circuit split with potentially far-reaching implications for Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA) collective actions...

On April 20, 2022, Judge Albright granted Defendant Microsoft Corporation's (Microsoft) Motion to Transfer Venue to the Western District of Washington (WDWA) finding Microsoft met its burden that transfer...

In a recent Ninth Circuit decision, the court affirmed that the key factor in determining whether an attorneys' fee award in a Rule 23 class action settlement is reasonable...

Over the past 12 months, we witnessed two new comprehensive privacy laws in Virginia and Colorado, demonstrating the continued appetite for consumer privacy protections in the United States.

A fundamental misconception pervades American law's engagement with blockchain technology. State legislatures, federal regulators, courts, and private market participants routinely treat the technical capabilities...

On April 25, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (the Department) published the Retirement Security Rule: Definition of an Investment Advice Fiduciary (the 2024 Fiduciary Rule).

On November 5, 2021, the Federal Circuit handed down a one-line order summarily affirming the October 2020 jury verdict in the case of MV3 v. Roku, presumptively concluding the first jury trial...

On September 28, 2023, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) published Regulations to Standardize and Promote Cross-Border Data Flows (Draft for Comments) (the Draft Regulations).

Under the heading of "Executive Compensation," this blog considers all matters relevant to executives, executives' employment, and their employment agreements, including strategies to protect the executives' earned compensation.

The March 2026 pooling of Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) standard debentures was priced at 4.626%. This most recent semiannual pricing of SBIC standard debentures reflected...

On June 6, 2022, the U.S. Small Business Administration (the "SBA") issued a final rule increasing from 12 months to 24 months the calculation period for determining...

On May 2, 2024, the NYSE sent a notice to its listed companies that the proposed rule will be effective on May 11, 2024.

This year has brought several important sweeping regulatory changes in the United States, including the most substantive Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/anti-money laundering (AML)...

Google petitioned the Federal Circuit for a writ of mandamus, requesting that the Federal Circuit direct the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas to vacate its order denying Google's motion to transfer and transfer to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

In its opposed motion, Google argued the Southern District of California was a proper and more convenient venue for the action.

Lex Machina released its 2020 Trade Secret Litigation Report in April, in which it summarized data from the past decade and compared it against data from the previous year's report.

On April 24, 2025, the Federal Reserve Board (Board) announced that it had withdrawn key supervisory guidance published during the prior Administration that, for more than two years...