L'OREAL CHARGES REVLON WITH PATENT INFRINGEMENT FOR MASCARA BRUSH and a "spill preventing cosmetic applicator" in two lawsuits recently filed in Manhattan District Court. In the cosmetic applicator suit, L'Oreal charges Revlon Consumer Products and Revlon's Almay subsidiary with "knowingly and willfully...using, offering to sell and selling" as well as importing into the U.S. an applicator assembly which uses L'Oreal's invention. The suit also charges the co-defendants with "induc[ing] others" to do the same. The spill preventing cosmetic applicator patent (5,324,128) was issued June 28, 1994.
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The US FTC’s contention that ‘notice and choice’ has failed as the cornerstone of consumer privacy regulation and must be abandoned in favor of data minimization and other more stringent measures does not adequately account for the complexity of business practices and consumer behavior, FTC commissioner Melissa Holyoak asserted at the NAD’s 2024 Annual Conference.
FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak says the agency has acted outside the bounds afforded by Congress, citing several areas within consumer protection, including a recent update to the final rule for the Health Breach Notification Rule and the commission’s use of notices of penalty offense to serve as the basis for Section 5 settlements.
At one year, TikTok Shop conjures the early days of Amazon, representing the ‘Wild West’ of beauty ecommerce, said co-founders of private label and contract manufacturing company KO-Pack at the IBA Cosmetics Convergence Fall 2024 Virtual Symposium, “The Promise and Pitfalls of TikTok Shop.”
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A round-up of the latest people moves: Pharma Deutschland names head of new OTC Market division; the African Medicines Agency appoints director general; the UK's Food Standards Agency adds members to novel foods committee.
Creating a working group to drive Rx-to-OTC switch is one of the ways in which Finland could expand self-care and save €60m per year for the country's health system, suggests a recently published report commissioned by Haleon.
Terclara - Moberg’s proprietary topical formulation of terbinafine for fungal nail - has established itself as the market leader in Norway just months after its OTC launch. The firm is now plotting its expansion to additional EU markets.
