On February 28, a consortium of 30 companies announced the formation of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), a nonprofit foundation designed to “build, promote, and broadly support Ethereum-based technology best practices, standards, and a...
Joel Beauvais and Claudia O’Brien have authored an article entitled “Re-Evaluating the Clean Water Rule: The Long Road Ahead.” President Donald Trump, on February 28, signed an executive order (EO) directing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
In Life Technologies v. Promega Corporation, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed whether supplying a single component from the United States of a multicomponent invention assembled abroad constitutes patent infringement under 35 U.S.C. §271(f)(1)....
Dear Legal Mailbag: I am sick and tired of parents who think that middle school education is unimportant. Every spring, I receive a spate of emails from parents notifying me that they will be taking their children out of school for family...
Last week the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve”) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the “OCC” and, collectively with the Federal Reserve, the “Banking Agencies”) released guidance (the...
Yesterday, Coherus announced that CHS-1420, its proposed biosimilar of Humira® (adalimumab), met the primary endpoint in a clinical pharmacokinetic (PK) bioequivalence study that compared CHS-1420 to Humira. According to Coherus, the study showed...
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently published a final rule regarding its exclusion authorities. The final rule goes into effect March 21, 2017, and expands OIG’s authority to exclude certain individuals and entities from participating in...
On February 28, 2017, President Trump signed an Executive Order entitled “RESTORING THE RULE OF LAW, FEDERALISM, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH BY REVIEWING THE ‘WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES’ RULE.” The purpose of this briefing paper is to provide a summary of...
Last year we reported that the DIFC had successfully established itself as a so called ‘conduit’ jurisdiction for the enforcement of foreign and domestic arbitral awards as well as foreign money judgements. This status could now be in jeopardy...
When the President of the United States, every governor, every member of Congress, and—as Justice Kagan remarked—virtually every under-30 and 35 year-old in the country has a Twitter account, it’s time for social media to be recognized as a pervasive...
