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Byline: Tom Perkins Carefree menstrual pads are contaminated with toxic PFAS 'forever chemicals', which presents a threat to the reproductive health of women using the products, a new lawsuit filed [...]

In a high-stakes legal confrontation, Saregama India Ltd., the illustrious music label, has initiated legal proceedings against Emami Ltd. to halt the unauthorized and unlicensed utilization of the timeless melody [...]

In a significant legal development concerning a trademark dispute between two dental care giants, the Delhi High Court has quashed a forgery case filed by Anchor Health and Beauty Care [...]

Earlier this year, the Pretoria High Court in Native Child Africa (Pty) Ltd v Akinwale reminded social media influencers to ensure that they understand the terms and conditions stipulated in [...]

First case of incoming passenger imprisoned for being in possession of cannabidiol (CBD). First case since CBD was listed as a dangerous drug under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance on February [...]

Finding in favour of insurers, the Full Federal Court substantially upheld the first instance decision in the COVID-19 BI Test Case. On 21 February 2022, the Full Court of the [...]

The recent bankruptcy case of In re Creative Hairdressers, Inc. et al, Case Nos. 20-14583 and 20-14584 (jointly administered) (Bankr. D. Md., March 3, 2022) involved the intersection of IRC [...]

As noted recently by Canada's Federal Court: 'the Copyright Act is, at the risk of understatement, complex'. Commencing a claim for copyright infringement requires satisfying various conditions precedent set out [...]

NEW YORK -- Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C., a nationally recognized stockholder rights law firm, announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Talkspace, Inc. ('Talkspace' or the [...]

SAN DIEGO -- Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP announces that the Talkspace class action lawsuit now seeks to represent: (1) holders of Talkspace, Inc. (NASDAQ: TALK) common stock as [...]

NEW YORK -- Attorney Advertising--Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC notifies investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Owlet, Inc. ('Owlet' or the 'Company') (NYSE: OWLT) and certain [...]

Anna Kaiser, the founder of AKT, sold her brand to Xponential Fitness before the pandemic. Now she wants it back. Anna Kaiser, a celebrity fitness trainer, is known for dispensing [...]

An employment tribunal has held in Gibson v Lothian Leisure that an employee had been unfairly dismissed under section 100(1)(e) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA) for raising health [...]

Executive Summary: For decades fitness facilities have been offering 'women-only' sections, allowing women to exercise in private without self-image worries or unwanted male attention. But these sections are now in [...]

Milwaukee, WI -- The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin: Matthew D. Krueger, the United States Attorney for the Eastern [...]

A long-awaited first decision was rendered on July 16, 2020 by the Superior Court of Québec in relation to the obligation of paying rent during the COVID-19 pandemic. Such decision [...]

Byline: Lateshia Beachum A high-end skincare brand is facing public shame that not even one of its best-selling creams can smooth over. On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission and Sunday [...]

Last week, in what may be the first of its kind, a putative class of Massachusetts consumers filed a false labeling class action complaint against Global Widget LLC, d/b/a Hemp [...]

In Mission Prod. Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion at the intersection of trademark and bankruptcy law. The Court resolved a circuit split on [...]

On May 20, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an 8-1 ruling in the case of Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC. The decision resolves a circuit split, holding [...]

In Flood v. Synutra Int'l, Inc., No. 101, 2018, 2018 Del. LEXIS 460 (Del. Oct. 9, 2018), the Delaware Supreme Court (Strine, C.J.) held that a controlling stockholder who pursues [...]

[This guest post was written by Stephanie Grace Stella, an associate in the Trademark Group at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.]. In a 36-page opinion, the Board sustained a Section [...]

gaming Lawsuit to proceed over NBA stars' tattoos A federal judge on Friday rejected a request by the maker of the popular NBA 2K video game series to dismiss a [...]

PTAB Decision: Ex parte McAward, Appeal No. 2015-006416 (PTAB, August 25, 2017) Background: The Office rejected claims to a 'water leakage detector' under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as [...]

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Edgewell Personal Care Company (NYSE: EPC) ('Edgewell') today issued the following statement in response to Procter & Gamble Company's (NYSE: PG) ('P&G') lawsuit [...]

In a 7-1 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the equitable defense of laches is no longer a valid defense to patent damages claims brought within [...]

Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued one decision, described below, of interest to the business community. Patent Act--Laches Defense SCA Hygiene Products Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Products, LLC, No. 15-927 [...]

Food for Thought is a review of significant court decisions affecting the food, beverage, dietary supplements and personal care products industry. Although many cases in this edition focus on class [...]

On January 30, 2017, in Van Patten v. Vertical Fitness Group, No. 14-55980, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) plaintiff had sufficiently [...]

On September 28, 2016, the Intellectual Property High Court issued a judgment in a patent infringement action involving facial care machines. In the judgment, the Court found that the patented [...]

Good afternoon. Below are the summaries for this week's civil decisions of the Court of Appeal. Determining the standard of review for issues of contractual interpretation has just been made [...]

Rather than wait around for the hammer to fall, companies under threat of an intellectual property lawsuit sometimes choose to file a declaratory judgment complaint. Such 'DJ' complaints usually ask [...]

Until recently, Canadian parent companies in the extractive sector could be relatively confident that any risks created by the actions of their overseas subsidiaries would be reputational in nature. Between [...]

In Rush Hair Limited v Gibson-Forbes & Anor, the English High Court considered whether two restrictive covenants relating to non-solicitation and non-competition ('RCs') given by an individual seller of a [...]

The British Columbia Supreme Court's recent decision in Williams v. Canales, 2016 BCSC 1811, has set precedent in British Columbia by finding for the first time in this Province that, [...]

On October 24, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit after an en banc rehearing in Sunearth, Inc. v. Sun Earth Solar Power Co., LTD., adopted the [...]

Seyfarth Synopsis: The New York Court of Appeals recently rejected the narrow view of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board and found that substantial evidence did not support a finding that [...]

Today, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in five cases of interest to the business community: Administrative Enforcement Actions--Judicial Review of Subpoenas McLane v. EEOC, No. 15-1248 When the Equal Employment [...]

Minnesota-based Regis Corporation, doing business as SmartStyle, will pay $60,000 in damages and back pay to former hair stylist Nora Jacquez to settle a federal disability discrimination suit, the U.S. [...]