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Payments and e-money: UK FCA publishes policy statement on changes to safeguarding regime
The FCA believes that some payments firms do not currently have sufficiently robust safeguarding practices. This poses a risk of harm to consumer and market integrity that the FCA is seeking to mitigate….By: Hogan Lovells
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Let’s Make it a Date–Best Method and the Filing Date of the Earliest Complete Application
In the recent decision of NOCO Company v. Brown and Watson International Pty Ltd [2025] FCA 887, Moshinsky J has provided welcomed clarity around the relevant date by which the best method known to the applicant is to be identified for divisional patent applications….By: K&L Gates LLP
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Maine’s Privacy Law: Intrusion upon Seclusion—Key Elements and Recent Developments
Maine, like most states, recognizes four fundamental common-law privacy torts: intrusion, appropriation, false light, and public disclosure. This article summarizes the tort of intrusion, sometimes called intrusion upon the seclusion of another….By: Verrill
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Delaware Supreme Court delivers split decision to insurers in 3M coverage row
The Delaware Supreme Court’s 3-2 Aearo Technologies LLC Insurance Appeals decision on August 12, 2025 affirmed a lower court ruling that payment of defense costs by a non-insured did not count toward the insured’s self-insured retention, and that the insured’s payment of the self-insured retention was a condition precedent to the insurer’s obligation to cover…
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2 Weeks After Trump Talks, Russia Bombards Kyiv, Killing at Least 18
The strikes, which hit a five-story apartment building, a shopping mall and buildings used by European governments, were the largest on the Ukrainian capital since the Alaska summit.
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Kim Jong-un to be Among U.S. Rivals Convening in Beijing
They will join China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and about 20 other heads of state, some of whom share a strong distrust of the United States.
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Jimmy Lai’s Freedom May Now Hinge on Beijing and Trump
As the outspoken Hong Kong publisher awaits a verdict, his trial has become a test of China’s resolve to crush dissent, and of whether President Trump can free him.
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A Gaza City Neighborhood Is Now a Wasteland, Satellite Images Show
With Israel’s expanded assault looming, Zeitoun already resembles other parts of Gaza that have been largely flattened in the war.
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U.N. Votes to Withdraw Peacekeepers From Lebanon Over Next Two Years
With the decades-old peacekeeping mission set to expire, the U.N. Security Council chose to extend it through 2026, then gradually withdraw the forces the following year.
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At the Frick, a Young Painter Spars With an Old Master
The “too muchness” of Rococo painting has met its match with Flora Yukhnovich’s immersive “Four Seasons.”
