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Apple v. Samsung Electronics: the perils of email auto deletion

  • Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
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  • USA
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  • July 27 2012

Apple recently received an e-discovery victory in their global patent battle with Samsung Electronics

Reasonable expectations of privacy in the digital age

  • Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
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  • USA
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  • July 9 2012

In this digital age of smart phones, global positioning systems, cloud computing, and social networking, determining what constitutes private information and what lengths our legal system will go to protect it is increasingly challenging

Consumer sues for violation of Massachusetts’ information security regulations

  • Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 30 2012

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on February 28 dismissed a consumer’s claims against a third-party vendor doing business with the consumer’s securities brokerage firm that were based on the vendor’s alleged failure to comply with the Massachusetts information security requirements

Court rules that consumers may sue to recover costs of payment card data breach

  • Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • November 30 2011

A federal appeals court has held in a recent case that consumers whose credit and debit card data was allegedly stolen when a national grocery store chain’s electronic payment processing system was breached may move forward with a lawsuit against the grocery store chain

OCC revises examination guidance on electronic funds transfers

  • Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 31 2011

The OCC has issued a new booklet entitled Electronic Fund Transfer ActRegulation E in the Comptroller’s Handbook that updates examination procedures and incorporates recent changes that the Federal Reserve has made to Regulation E regarding overdraft services, gift cards, and electronic signatures

Supreme Court affirms strong presumption of patent validity

  • Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
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  • USA
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  • September 15 2011

On June 9, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its much anticipated decision in Microsoft v. i4i

New guidance issued on authenticating the identity of internet banking customers

  • Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • June 30 2011

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (“FFIEC”) has issued a supplement to its guidance entitled Authentication in an Internet Banking Environment first issued in October 2005 (the “2005 Guidance”

Supreme Court rules in IMS data mining case

  • Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 29 2011

On June 23, 2011, the Supreme Court in Sorrell, Attorney General of Vermont, et al. v. IMS Health Inc. et al, struck down a Vermont law that bans the sale of physicians’ prescribing information to pharmaceutical companies and further bans pharmaceutical companies from using such data to market their products

Business method patents abroad: developments in Australia and Canada

  • Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
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  • Australia, Canada
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  • January 26 2011

In Invention Pathways, the Australian Patent Office denied the protection of business method claims because the use of a computer was considered merely incidental or peripheral

Supreme Court grants cert in case considering patent validity standard

  • Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 26 2011

On November 29, 2010, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to the third patent law case in the current term by accepting Microsoft's petition in Microsoft Corp. v. i4i L.P