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Data Brokers Under Scrutiny

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/12/13

The Senate Commerce Committee released this morning its majority staff report, A Review of the Data Broker Industry: Collection, Use, and Sale of Consumer Data for Marketing Purposes, on the practices data brokers use to collect and sell personal...

Advertising Law -- Dec 19, 2013

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/12/13

FTC Focus in Spring 2014 – Privacy: Looking ahead to 2014, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it will host three spring seminars focused on consumer privacy and the implications of new technology....

SCOTUS DECIDES: Three-Year Contractual Limitations Period Enforceable in ERISA LTD Plan

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/12/13

In Heimeshoff v. Hartford Life & Acc. Ins. Co. the United States Supreme Court held that a contractual limitations period in an ERISA long-term disability plan was enforceable and began to accrue before the administrator had made a final...

IP, trade secrets and employee mobility - Judges and attorneys discuss top-of-mind issues for Silicon Valley tech employers

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/12/13

Increasingly today, the value of a company is measured not by its physical assets, but by the talents of its employees and the utility of its intellectual property. Because of their knowledge and experience, talented employees are constantly wooed by...

How the New Washington Trust Act and its 2013 Amendments Affect You and Your Clients - December 2013

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/12/13

In 2011, the legislature adopted a new Washington Trust Act (the “2011 Act”). The 2011 Act took effect on January 1, 2012, and codified many changes to the duties of trustees and the rights of trust beneficiaries. Within 18 months, in May 2013, the...

New California Court of Appeal Decision Reaffirms General Rule that Residential Lenders Owe no Duty to Borrowers, Including in the Loan Modification Context

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/12/13

In a recent decision, Lueras v. BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP, 2013 Cal. App. LEXIS 886, the California Court of Appeal returned to the general rule that, absent unique circumstances giving rise to a duty of care, lenders do not owe a duty of care to...

Family sues security company, alleges guards at hospital sent dying man home in cab

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/12/13

A lawsuit filed against a security company asserts that its guards at a North Carolina hospital put an "uncooperative" patient in a taxi, where he died on the way home.

TC's inside IP - Winter 2013: Final Really Does Mean Final in the Federal Circuit

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/12/13

Defendants in patent infringement lawsuits often request that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) reexamine the patent-in-suit. Patent reexamination is a process where the validity of an issued patent is again reviewed by the PTO....

News from Abroad: Are Multiple SPCs per Patent Allowed?

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/12/13

Historically, it was widely thought that it was possible to obtain a separate supplementary protection certificates (SPC) for each product covered by a patent. However, in its judgment in Medeva in 2011, the Court of Justice of the European Union...

FINRA Continues its Crackdown on Companies that Fail to Respond to Red Flags

By EsqSocial Corporation 19/12/13

FINRA continues to discipline broker-dealers that fail to detect and investigate so-called “red flags” of suspicious account activity. Yesterday, FINRA announced a $1 million fine against COR Clearing LLC (the “Firm”) – formerly Legent Clearing LLC –...

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