At a public meeting held on January 15, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) summarized the Second Interim Staff Report ...

To be eligible for trademark registration, a color must have acquired distinctiveness and must not be functional. Recently, ...

The IRS has clearly identified legitimate reasons why "U.S. Persons" would establish or maintain ownership in a foreign trust ...

The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR) requires parties to transactions meeting certain size ...

EPA late last year finalized rules banning use of trichloroethylene (TCE) in the United States and certain consumer uses of ...

Government agencies may be eager to exercise their enhanced authority to investigate and pursue contractors under provisions ...

On January 16, 2025, the European Commission issued a recommendation encouraging EU Member States to begin reviewing outbound ...

Labor and employment law in Germany will see a number of important developments in 2025. The Bureaucracy Relief Act IV took effect on January 1; ...

The Corporate Governance Code recommends that the board of directors promote, in the most appropriate forms, dialogue with shareholders and ...

The SEC continues to leave its mark as a federal cybersecurity enforcer and closed out the year by charging another company with making ...

We live in an era of ‘big data.’ According to the International Telecommunications Union, more than three-quarters of the world’s population own ...

On January 10, 2025, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal in Becerra v. Braidwood Management, Inc. (“Braidwood”). The case (discussed in a ...