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Alan Bickerstaff, William J. Cooper, Jeff C. Dodd, Edward (Ted) A. Gilman; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 18, 2012, previously published on May 16, 2012 The staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance (Staff) recently issued additional frequently asked questions (FAQs) providing guidance on questions raised under Title I (also known as the IPO on-ramp provisions) of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act...
| | Congress Passes the JOBS Act to Ease IPO Process for “Emerging Growth Companies” and Enhance Capital Formation
Alan Bickerstaff, William J. Cooper, Jeff C. Dodd, Edward (Ted) A. Gilman; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 29, 2012, previously published on March 28, 2012 On March 27, 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act), as previously amended by the U.S. Senate. The bill has been sent to the President for his signature. The President is expected to sign the bill into law as the White House has publicly...
|  | Patent-Eligible Subject Matter in Business Method Patents
Jeff C. Dodd, Gregory L. Porter; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 22, 2012 While noting that Section 101 of the Patent Act broadly made various inventions and discoveries eligible for patents, the Supreme Court in Bilski v. Kappos, 130 S. Ct. 3218 (2010) also noted that its precedents provided "three specific exceptions to § 101's broad patent-eligibility...
| | ISS Publishes Guidance on New Methodology for Evaluating Pay-for-Performance Alignment and Updates to its Governance Risk Indicators
Jeff C. Dodd, Edward (Ted) A. Gilman, Dudley W. Murrey; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 13, 2012, previously published on January 10, 2012 As discussed in our previous client alert, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the leading proxy advisory firm, will employ a new methodology for determining pay-for-performance alignment when making voting recommendations at public company shareholder meetings held on or after February 1,...
| | ISS Publishes 2012 Updates to Benchmark U.S. Proxy Voting Guideline
Jeff C. Dodd, Edward (Ted) A. Gilman, Dudley W. Murrey; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article December 8, 2011, previously published on December 1, 2011 On November 17, 2011, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the leading proxy advisory firm, published 2012 updates to its benchmark U.S. proxy voting guidelines. ISS will use the updated benchmark guidelines to formulate voting recommendations for public company shareholder meetings held on or...
| | Three Large States Revise Their Security Breach Notification Laws and Texas Applies Its Law to Residents of Some Other States to Boot
Jeff C. Dodd; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article November 2, 2011, previously published on October 25, 2011 Over forty states have adopted laws requiring businesses to implement some form of security procedures with respect to specified data relating to individuals and to provide notice when those data security measures have been breached. While the structures of these laws often share common elements,...
| | Recent Ruling Allows a Shareholder Lawsuit to Proceed After a Negative Say-on-Pay Vote: Quirk or Harbinger?
Jeff C. Dodd, J. Wiley George; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article October 11, 2011, previously published on October 6, 2011 During the 2011 proxy season many public companies conducted their first “say-on-pay” vote, as compelled by Section 951 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) and related Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules.1 Section 951 and related SEC...
| | Hitting Non-Practicing Entities Where It Hurts
Jeff C. Dodd, Robert A. Gutkin; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article August 23, 2011, previously published on August 16, 2011 In a July 29 decision, the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court award of substantial sanctions against a Non-Practicing Entity (NPE) that had a business model of suing numerous companies for nuisance value settlements.
| | DC Circuit Panel Vacates Proxy Access Rule
Melinda Held Brunger, Jeff C. Dodd, Scott L. Olson; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article August 1, 2011, previously published on July 28, 2011 On July 22, 2011, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) vacated Securities Exchange Act Rule 14a-11. Rule 14a-11 would have allowed qualifying long-term shareholders to nominate a limited number of directors and to include them...
| | Recent Cases Should Make Software Licensors Review Their Distribution Methods and License Terms (and They May Even Make Us Look at Open Source Licenses in a Different Way)
Jeff C. Dodd, Roger Williams; Andrews Kurth LLP;
Legal Alert/Article July 22, 2011, previously published on July 21, 2011 Three recent copyright cases from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc., 621 F.3d 1102 (9th Cir. 2010), UMG Recordings Inc. v. Augusto, 628 F.3d 1175 (9th Cir. 2010) and MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., 629 F.3d 928 (9th Cir. 2011), underscore how methods...
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