Emily Strickler Voorheis

Monetary penalties are the attention-grabbing headline when the FTC or any regulator brings an enforcement action against a company. They are the looming threat to incentivize and influence compliance. Over the summer, FTC...more The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30, 2020, decided U.S. Patent & Trademark Office v. Booking.com B.V., handing a win to Booking.com and holding that whether a generic term combined with a “.com” domain name results in a generic...more While businesses grapple with the COVID-19 crisis, data privacy and data security regulation remains a pressing concern. Some significant state laws regarding data privacy and security have gone into effect in 2020, such as...more Move over IRS, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is jumping on the audit bandwagon. The USPTO has recently implemented a new auditing program aimed at promoting “the accuracy and integrity of the trademark...more