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The Belgian Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) has fined Brussels Airport and Brussels South Charleroi Airport 200,000 and 100,000 EUR respectively for their use of thermal cameras during the Covid-19 pandemic.In two extensive decisions (Brussels decision and Charleroi decision), the DPA has fined the two airports for their use of thermal cameras. The DPA has decided that the airports did not have a sufficiently clear legal basis for the processing of health data, stating they could not rely on “public interest” to process health data. The DPA has determined that the information provided to pas...

A California jury recently rejected antitrust claims brought by a class of California consumers seeking more than $400 million in damages from Sutter Health, a large Northern California hospital system. The case, Sidibe v. Sutter Health, Cas. No. 12-04854, N.D. Cal., originally filed in 2012, alleged that Sutter Health had abused its market position by... Continue Reading

Bot M8 LLC, a patent assertion entity, was unsuccessful in its effort to have the Federal Circuit reverse the lower court’s invalidity finding related to one of six different patents asserted against Sony in Northern District of California. In fact, the Federal Circuit was so unpersuaded by Bot M8’s arguments that it devoted less than...

According to the Federal Circuit, $173 million was the right damages award for almost three years of patent infringement resulting from Baxalta’s sale of its biologic product Adynovate® (Antihemophilic Factor (Recombinant), PEGylated).  In Bayer Healthcare LLC v. Baxalta Inc., et al., Nos. 2019-2418, 2020-1017 (Fed. Cir. 2021), the circuit court upheld an award to Bayer [...]

By: Anne Marie Ellis, John Epperson, Peter McGaw