November 2, 2013
Could it be that in a time of intense partisanship on Capitol Hill, when moving any legislation seems close to impossible, that a bill to rein in litigation brought by so-called patent trolls may actually have a reasonable shot of passage?
November 2, 2013
A trial is underway in Boise, Idaho that could determine the future configuration of the health-care industry in the United States and mark the beginning of the end of the iconic American role of...
November 2, 2013
Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), and Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), who co-chairs the Congressional Bi-partisan Privacy Caucus, responded to a new survey that found a big jump in mobile device use by...
November 2, 2013
One of the last oral arguments that Judge William H. Orrick III heard before retiring to his chambers to weigh the voluminous evidence in the hard-fought trial in the Justice Department’s challenge...
November 2, 2013
A half-dozen Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and two Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, are calling for the FTC to provide...
November 2, 2013
After the FTC issued revised “Green Guides” a year ago to make it clear that marketers’ claims about their products’ environmental attributes must be truthful, it seemed a good bet that the agency...
November 2, 2013
The FTC’s action against St. Luke’s Health System will turn in large part on the definition of the geographic market. Is the market the single city of Nampa, Idaho, as the agency alleges, or is it...
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