Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | Russia, USA | 8 Apr 2022
With Western countries increasingly sanctioning Russia and a growing number of boycotts from brands due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia has…
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 14 Dec 2020
After a nearly decade-long dispute with the IRS, the U.S. Tax Court ordered Coca-Cola to pay $3.4 billion in additional taxes. The increased…
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 26 Oct 2018
In a unanimous decision, the Indiana Supreme Court held that online fantasy sports operators do not need the consent of athletes whose names, pictures…
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 28 Oct 2016
On Oct. 24, 2016, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, explicitly overturned its previous standard for awarding attorneys' fees in…
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 13 May 2016
On May 11, President Barack Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (“DTSA”) into law, thereby creating, for the first time, a federal…
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 2 Feb 2016
Akeem Daniels, a former Northern Illinois University (“NIU”) football player, recently invoked the Lanham Act in an attempt to force DraftKings and…
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 21 Jan 2016
The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari to review the standard applied by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board for…
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 23 Dec 2015
On Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015 a twelve-judge en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (assembled sua sponte) vacated the…
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 18 Jun 2015
The Indiana legislature recently passed legislation that attempts to discourage parties from bringing frivolous patent infringement claims within…
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP | USA | 24 Mar 2015
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a game-changing opinion today on the authority of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office’s (USPTO) Trademark Trial & Appeal…