As the SEC has made clear on numerous occasions over the past
year, cybersecurity will continue to be a major enforcement
priority under the Commission's new leadership. As we have
previously covered, one new area of potential enforcement
activity that the SEC has warned about concerns the failure of
public companies to make disclosures regarding material cyber
events. While the SEC had previously provided some
guidance to publicly traded companies about when to disclose
such events, that 2011 guidan
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25 Apr 2018, Speaking Engagement, Boston, United States
TiE Boston and Babson College join Boston Blockchain Week (April 23 - 27) - the largest gathering of blockchain founders, developers, and funders in Boston/Cambridge.
Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are funding exciting startups and presenting new opportunities for investors to get a piece of the action while also creating a new funding vehicle that is changing founder/investor dynamics.
The energy storage market has taken off in the Northeast. In late 2017, Massachusetts announced $20 million in grants for 26 projects through the Baker-Polito Administration’s Advancing Commonwealth Energy Storage program, while New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently committed to deploy 1,500 megawatts of storage by 2025. With storage finally here, communities and consumers are looking to marry solar with storage as a solution to reducing electricity costs, increasing grid resiliency and better-utilizing energy resources. Numerous Northeast Clean Energy Council (NECEC) members are leading in this space in Massachusetts, New York and other states that have jump-started their energy storage markets.
What does the generalist in-house counsel need to know about protecting designs? Designs occupy a unique space in intellectual property. In the U.S., designs are protected under the patent laws, while in Europe, designs are typically protected under industrial design law. Overlapping protection for designs also exists in the U.S. and Europe through copyright law and through trademark law as it applies to trade dress.
Foley Hoag LLP will present a 60-minute webinar on Wednesday, May 9 at 12:30 pm EDT offering guidance for in-house counsel regarding the basics of design protection from U.S. and European perspectives, as well as strategies for protecting designs effectively and economically.
Cybersecurity is one of the highest priority issues for public company executives and directors. This note shares our views—developed over our involvement in the aftermath...
The SEC filed an action to halt the initial coin offering ("ICO") of Centra Tech, Inc. ("Centra"), charging two Florida businessmen with engaging in a fraudulent scheme to raise funds from investors ...
Paris partner Hubert de Vauplane's article "Blockchain and Shareholder Knowledge" appeared in the March 2018 issue of the French bimonthly publication Actes Pratiques et Ingénierie Sociétaire.
Bitcoin is often portrayed as an untraceable method of payment that facilitates illicit activities by enabling criminals to make and receive payments without being tracked.
This week's U.S. Supreme Court decision in Cyan v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund could have a major impact on how and where we see class action securities claims brought against...
Check out this month's edition of The Privacy Advisor, a publication of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), for Divonne Smoyer and Kimberly Chow's Q&A with Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill.
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
Artificial intelligence (AI) — the science of teaching a machine how to "think" — has its roots in the 1950s. But until recently, it was considered a niche ...
The U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") asserted that it considers the transmission of newly-issued digital coins and tokens derived from initial coin offerings...