Monthly Minute | Design Patents
U.S. Commerce Department officials are considering whether to charge patent holders a new 1% to 5% patent fee that would be based on "overall patent value," The Wall Street Journal reported on July 28, 2025. There are no...more
On March 8, the USPTO joined other intellectual property offices in celebrating International Women’s Day with a theme of “Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress.”...more
On April 20, the USPTO announced an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) seeking public input regarding potential PTAB reforms, including proposed changes to discretionary institution practices, petition word limits,...more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has proposed historic increases to its fee schedule for immigration benefit applications. Under the proposed fee rule, the filing fee for common employment-based applications...more
On January 4, 2023, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a proposed rule seeking 60-day comment on proposed changes to the fee schedule for benefit requests before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services...more
In This Issue. The Board of the Governors of the Federal Reserve (Federal Reserve) proposed a new supervisory framework for certain holding companies engaged in insurance activities; the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...more
Since the beginning of 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) has issued numerous regulations to implement fully the Foreign Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (FIRRMA) on behalf of the Committee on Foreign...more
Further implementing the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA“), the U.S. Department of the Treasury recently published a proposed rule to establish filing fees for parties filing voluntary...more
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) published a proposed rule on March 9, 2020, that would establish a fee for parties filing a voluntary notice of certain transactions for review by CFIUS. In...more
- On March 9, 2020, the U.S. Department of Treasury published a Proposed Rule to implement filing fee requirements for voluntary notices filed with CFIUS. - Under the proposed framework, the value of the transaction...more
For the first time in its history, the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) plans to require the payment of fees in connection with the submission of full notifications for covered foreign...more
In this issue, we summarize regulatory, litigation and industry developments from October 2019 to early January 2020 impacting the investment management sector, including SEC action on use of derivatives by registered...more
The SEC has proposed rule amendments to automate filing fee calculations and payment processing. If the rules are adopted, filing fees would be paid via Automated Clearing House (ACH) and would no longer be payable via...more