Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Justice established, for the first time in two decades, a new stand-alone division, headed by Assistant Attorney General. The new division, the National Fraud ...
The House passed the CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633) in July 2025 with bipartisan support, but the Senate failed to invoke cloture on September 15, 2026, by a 49–50 vote, with forty-four (44) Democrats, two ...
HOUSTON, October 7, 2026 – Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, represented Westlake Royal Roofing LLC in its acquisition of steel roofing ...
EPA’s September 1, 2026 SSM memorandum gives air agencies a framework for reviewing SIP provisions after two D.C. Circuit decisions reset the agency’s approach to startup, shutdown, malfunction, and ...
Baker Botts was pleased to sponsor the 14th edition of the Global Antitrust Hot Topics: EU, US & Global Perspectives, one of the premier gatherings in the EU competition law community. The September ...
Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology, and life sciences law firm, helped secure a ruling for Anker Innovations Ltd. fully eliminating a $13,638,219 patent damages award. The ...
The past few months have been sweet for trade dress plaintiffs. This summer, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued a significant decision in Van Leeuwen Ice ...
The Rise of Dupe Culture “Dupe culture” is a consumer movement in which shoppers openly seek and promote lower-cost alternatives to premium branded products. For brand owners, the trend presents a ...
Baker Botts partner Stuart Jordan revisits pay-when-paid provisions in light of new Cassation rulings from Qatar and Abu Dhabi, which show that conditional payment terms can no longer be used to ...
MSN clarified the application of obviousness-type double patenting in the context of patent term adjustment, a new question has e ...
“Can they search my phone at the airport?” White-collar defense attorneys and in-house counsel often hear this question from clients whose conduct may be under government scrutiny, even when the ...