For the past few months, the beneficial ownership reporting obligations under the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) have fluctuated between being required pursuant to the CTA and being halted by nationwide preliminary injunctions. However, as of February 18, 2025, all
Co-authored by Sheena Wang and Ellie Purnell of HGF limited, “CRISPR and Agriculture” was originally published by Food and Drink Technology on January 29, 2025. To access the article on the Food and Drink Technology website, please click here.
Only days after lifting the nationwide preliminary injunction, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated their decision to stay the district court’s preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act. In the December 26, 2024 decision, Fifth Circuit stated:
As an update to our posts on the ongoing attempts to block the Corporate Transparency Act, on December 23, 2024, the Fifth Circuit granted a temporary stay of the district court’s preliminary injunction for compliance with the Corporate Transparency Act
As an update to our post on the Corporate Transparency Act, on December 3, 2024, a federal district court issued a nationwide preliminary injunction pertaining to the Corporate Transparency Act in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Garland. In its
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today the finalized fee increases taking effect on January 19, 2025. While applicants can still expect significant increases in certain areas, some proposed fee increases were not implemented following pushback from
The utilization of artificial intelligence (“AI”) is becoming ubiquitous across a wide range of industry sectors. The biotech industry is no exception.
AI-driven platforms have become increasingly useful to biotech innovators in many areas including in discovering and developing drugs.
Our current food system is facing a myriad of critical challenges. The United Nations predicts that the world population will reach 9.3 billion people by 2050, which means that we will need to produce 60% more food to feed the
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) went into effect on January 1, 2024, and will impact millions of U.S. businesses by imposing requirements to file corporate transparency reports with beneficial ownership information (“BOI”) before January 1, 2025. Here, we summarize some key
The food tech industry has been growing and evolving rapidly in the last ten years due to technological innovations in the space and a growing customer demand for plant-based food products and sustainable meat options. We have previously covered a
