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The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) is an increasingly popular venue for patent infringement litigation. More and more companies are seeking to halt importations of infringing products into the United States by turning to the ITC for expedited relief. Section 337 investigations conducted by the ITC provide complainants with a “fast track” to remedy IP matters that typically go to trial within 10 months. Since many Section 337 cases go to trial, selecting an ITC litigation team with a command of the technology, patent law, and specialized procedural practice is extremely important. We have handled more than 100 cases before the ITC.
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Winston takes a strategic approach to privacy and data security, integrating our extensive capabilities across practices to provide our clients with cutting-edge privacy and data security counseling, crisis management, security incident investigation and notification management, defense of data security class action litigation and regulatory inquiries, and international data protection. Our Global Privacy & Data Security Practice features a core team of privacy professionals and is bolstered by more than 40 attorneys from a variety of other disciplines firmwide. Our team combines compliance counselors, transactional lawyers, former government regulators and federal prosecutors, seasoned investigators, and experienced litigators. Few firms can rival our in-depth, sophisticated, and integrated experience in this area.
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In the Media
|December 16, 2024
|2 Min Read
Sara Susnjar Discusses “Dark Patterns” in Noyb Privacy Complaint Against BeReal with Lexology
Winston & Strawn partner Sara Susnjar was quoted in a recent Lexology article discussing the complaint filed by privacy group Noyb claiming social networking app BeReal violated users’ consent through misuse of cookie banners. Noyb has asked CNIL, the French regulatory body that ensures data privacy laws are applied to the collection, storage, and use of personal data, to fine BeReal and order its compliance following five alleged breaches of the GDPR over the consent banners used by the company since July 2024.
Class Action Insider
|June 12, 2024
|2 Min Read
Courts Considering New Defense to Mass Arbitrations
In recent years, large companies have faced an onslaught of “mass arbitrations,” a tactic used by the plaintiffs’ bar to leverage against valid class-action waivers and arbitration provisions in consumer agreements. Although courts and legislatures offer little recourse, defendants have started hitting back, and several courts are currently evaluating the validity of new defense strategies.
In the Media
|March 26, 2024
|1 Min Read
The American Lawyer Highlights Winston & Strawn’s 2023 Growth and Revenue
Winston & Strawn Chairman Tom Fitzgerald and Chair-Elect Steve D’Amore spoke with The American Lawyer about the firm’s record year in revenue and profits, head count growth, the increased focus on international markets in the future, and more.
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Flash loans are a subset of smart contracts where uncollateralized loans are made to a buyer and re-paid in the same series of transactions. Flash loans represent essentially risk-free arbitrage opportunities; for example, if a cryptocurrency is being traded for $1 on one exchange and for $2 on another, a savvy trader can use smart contracts to take out a flash loan of $100 worth of the cryptocurrency on the first exchange, sell it for $200 on the second exchange, repay the loan, and pocket the extra $100 as profit as part of a single instantaneous transaction. Flash loans are usually risk-free for lenders as well; if there is no contract executed to return the amount loaned, the initial loan will never be made.