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With continuing uncertainty about whether and how the UK will manage its scheduled departure from the EU, many U.S. companies have been asking about the effect of Brexit on their…
In a significant development that drew little attention in this country, the UK’s Network and Information Systems Regulations of 2018 (NIS Regulations) took effect on May 24, 2018. (The official…
Welcome to the first installment of The Privacy Report. Some of you may have been followers of Robinson Bradshaw’s Genomics Law Report blog, which has evolved into this new blog because—especially with the gene patent wars over for the time being—the content of the GLR was moving in the direction…
What will those lawyers think of next? In one of the most surprising patent strategies ever, the Irish drug company Allergan has assigned six patents on its top-selling dry eye drug Restasis to the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe of upstate New York, which is one of the colonial-era Iroquois Nations.…
We have been reporting for more than a year about the case of Williams v. Quest Diagnostics (the parent company of Athena Diagnostics), in which the plaintiff has sued Athena and Quest for causing the death of her son by misclassifying a genetic variant when testing the boy’s DNA. That…
As part of its defense of a class action lawsuit that began in 2014, a genetic genealogy company (or DNA ancestry company as they are sometimes called) is challenging the constitutionality of the Alaska Genetic Privacy Act, arguing that the statute’s provisions are unconstitutionally vague. The State of Alaska is…
Last September, I reported on the Federal Trade Commission’s decision upholding its enforcement action against the now-defunct clinical laboratory LabMD, Inc. In 2013, the FTC brought an administrative complaint against LabMD, alleging that its lax cybersecurity practices resulted in the exposure of patient data. As I wrote last year, exposure…
In a recent conversation with John Conley about his April 25 post on the ACB v. Thompson Medical ruling by the Court of Appeal of Singapore, I made a couple of points, and he asked me to write them up to briefly comment on the topic for the Genomics Law Report.…
