Race to File Under the America Invents Act

by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019

The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (“AIA”) is the most significant change to patent law since the 1952 Patent Act. The USPTO has gradually implemented numerous provisions of the AIA. Significantly, patent applications filed on or after March 16, 2013 will...

Lost Backup Tape Puts Blood Bank Under the FTC’s Microscope

by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019

In an all-too familiar fact pattern, a San Francisco-based employee of a California-based cord blood bank put four company back-up tapes — filled with personal data on 300,000 pregnant mothers, expectant fathers and newborns — into a backpack and then set...

Projecting the Impact of Medical Marijuana on Connecticut Employers

by S Z | Sep 15, 2019

The smoke has barely lifted since Connecticut’s passage of Public Act No. 12-55, “An Act Concerning the Palliative Use of Marijuana” (“the Act”), and the questions continue to pile high. On October 1, 2012 Connecticut became the...

The Federal Trade Commission’s ‘Device Squad’ Gets Technical with HTC on Smartphone Security

by S Z | Sep 15, 2019

For several years running, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) has chastened businesses for alleged laxity in securing consumer data from breaches and other unauthorized access. The overwhelming majority of these enforcement...

The World Gone Mobile: California Attorney General Issues Roadmap to Privacy Protection in the ‘Mobile Ecosystem’

by S Z | Sep 15, 2019

California regulators have traditionally carried the flag towards new consumer privacy protections in the nation’s digital economy. Last week, the California Attorney General took the battle to the privacy wilderness known as the “mobile ecosystem”...