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By: Stephanny Avshalomov If you sell products or services to consumers and/or businesses and provide subscription terms that include automatic contract renewals – you better take note. The Click-to-Cancel rule (the “Rule”),[1] which went into effect on January 14, 2025, requires sellers to fully comply by May 14, 2025. The purpose of the Rule […]

Dear Clients and Friends: On Tuesday, August 20, 2024, Judge Ada E. Brown, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, ruled that: “the FTC lacks statutory authority to promulgate the Non-Compete Rule, and that the Rule is arbitrary and capricious.”1 Judge Brown then declared that: “the Rule […]

By: Mitchell C. Shelowitz and Sean Scheinfeld As of  September 4, 2024 (the “Effective Date”), virtually all post-termination non-compete restrictions will become illegal in the United States as an unfair method of competition.  As such, U.S. businesses that include post-termination non-compete covenants in their contracts must take immediate action in […]

By: Jamie Rauch On December 19, 2022, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) announced record monetary fines of five hundred twenty million dollars ($520,000,000) against Epic Games, Inc. (“Epic Games”), the creator of the hugely successful video game Fortnite, based upon violations of: (i) The Children’s Online Privacy Protection […]

By: Sean P. Scheinfeld A computer scientist has lost his bid to secure patents for inventions created by his artificial intelligence (AI) system. On August 5, 2022, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, in its opinion in Thaler v. Vidal, flatly concluded that the Patent Act does not allow for […]