Attention copywriters. The FDA has taken out a bright red pen and is poised to mark up your product statements. The green shades (an antiquated description of newspaper copyeditors)  signaled much closer review of health claims with a warning to General Mills about oat cereal.

GetJar, an independent app store, yesterday announced 1.5 billion app downloads in its first year of operation. GetJar has been around since 2004. It features close to 50,000 applications — such as Google Maps and the Opera browser — and works on all major platforms.

Some smart tips from BlackberryCool to help sell your app: Constantly experiment with price points Getting featured is your top priority Choose the right time to launch your product Choosing the right category Searching optimization through branding To read the article, click here.

Apple announced Tuesday that after a year in existence, its App Store has counted 1.5 billion downloaded applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Some stats:  In April, Apple announced 1 billion apps had been downloaded from its store, after just 9 months of being open.

Three New Jersey companies that manufacture and sell nutritional supplements and protein powders have just learned what happens when you do not follow health directives from the Food and Drug Administration.

Interesting piece in today's WSJ entitled "Seeking Fame in Apple's Sea of Apps." The article notes that Apple gets 30% of any third-party app sales, and that as of today customers had downloaded more than 1.5 billion free and paid apps.

Legal filings aggregator Justia tags cases filed in federal court with relevant keywords including "iTunes."  This makes finding new filings related to whatever keyword interests you quite simple.

Welcome to our new blog, published by lawyers Kevin Houchin and Joel Rothman.  Houchin and Rothman are better known as the attorneys who filed the now infamous iFart v.

GUEST BLOG by David A. Mark The Institute of Medicine is currently reviewing the Dietary Reference Intake value for vitamin D that last changed in 1997.

A recent study by LegalMetrics, a litigation analysis firm, named the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida among the top five districts for speed to resolution in patent infringement cases.