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New York, NY – February 18, 2025 – A panel of the National Advertising Review Board (NARB), the appellate advertising body of BBB National Programs, recommended that GuruNanda, LLC discontinue “natural teeth whitening” claims for its pulling oil product.

GuruNanda’s pulling oil, a mouthwash-type product, is based on a traditional Ayurveda practice that involves swishing oils, such as coconut, sesame, and sunflower oil, between the teeth to promote oral health.

The advertising at issue had been challenged by The Procter & Gamble Company before BBB National Programs’ National Advertising Division (NAD). Following NAD’s decision (Case No. 7377), GuruNanda appealed NAD’s recommendation to discontinue the “natural teeth whitening” claim. 

The NARB panel determined that NAD’s decision should be affirmed because the two clinical studies submitted by GuruNanda in support of its claim were not sufficiently rigorous to meet the standard of competent and reliable scientific evidence applicable here.

The NARB panel further noted that while the results in these exploratory studies may well point to a possible whitening effect for swishing oil, the research to date does not satisfy the standards for scientific claim support.

Therefore, the NARB panel recommended that GuruNanda discontinue the claim “natural teeth whitening.”

In its advertiser statement, GuruNanda stated that though it “strongly disagrees with NARB’s analysis,” it will “comply with NARB’s recommendation.” GuruNanda further stated that “additional scientific studies were already underway…that will continue to demonstrate” the product’s whitening abilities.

All BBB National Programs case decision summaries can be found in the case decision library. For the full text of NAD, NARB, and CARU decisions, subscribe to the online archive. Per NAD/NARB procedures, this release may not be used for advertising or promotional purposes.

About BBB National Programs: BBB National Programs, a non-profit organization, is the home of U.S. independent industry self-regulation, currently operating more than a dozen globally recognized programs that have been helping enhance consumer trust in business for more than 50 years. These programs provide third-party accountability and dispute resolution services that address existing and emerging industry issues, create a fairer playing field for businesses, and a better experience for consumers. BBB National Programs continues to evolve its work and grow its impact by providing business guidance and fostering best practices in arenas such as advertising, child-and-teen-directed marketing, data privacy, dispute resolution, automobile warranty, technology, and emerging areas. To learn more, visit bbbprograms.org.

About the National Advertising Review Board (NARB): The National Advertising Review Board (NARB) is the appellate body for BBB National Programs’ advertising self-regulatory programs. NARB’s panel members include 85 distinguished volunteer professionals from the national advertising industry, agencies, and public members, such as academics and former members of the public sector. NARB serves as a layer of independent industry peer review that helps engender trust and compliance in NAD, CARU, and DSSRC matters.

Top 100 Global Innovators Identified by LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions Across Database of ~16 Million Patent Families Using Patent Asset Index Methodology

New York, NY – February 18, 2025 – LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional today announced the “Top 100 Global Innovators” for 2025, the prestigious roster of companies around the world that are driving innovation in the global economy, based on exceptional shifts in patent portfolio quality over the last two years. The top 100 companies were identified through an analysis by LexisNexis^® Intellectual Property Solutions across a database of nearly 16 million global patent families using its proven Patent Asset Index methodology.

“Measuring and comparing innovation across different industries, technologies, and geographies may seem an impossible task, but the LexisNexis^® Patent Asset Index provides a trusted methodology to identify 100 companies that are leading innovation globally,” said Marco Richter, Senior Director of IP Analytics and Strategy for LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions. “From trillion-dollar giants to start-ups whose entire team could fit in a movie theater, this year’s Top 100 Global Innovators span the spectrum, but they share a common commitment to pushing the frontiers of research and advancing human knowledge. We commend all of this year’s honorees on their leadership in creating a better world, and we look forward to watching their continued innovation in the future.”

Top 100 Global Innovators by Industry Sector

For the fourth consecutive year, the U.S. dominated the Top 100 Global Innovators list with 47 companies, including the majority recognized in industries like Pharmaceuticals, Information Technologies, and Medical Technologies. Other countries with notable number of Top 100 innovators include Germany (12), China (7), Japan (5), and Korea (7).

There were 18 new entrants among this year’s Top 100 honorees, including Chengdu Qinchuan IoT, Coupang, CXMT, Henkel, International Flavors & Fragrances, JFE Holdings, Kokusai Electric, L’Oréal, Novocure, Novonesis, RTX Corp, Siemens, SK Innovation, Topsoe, Wave Life Sciences, Willow Laboratories, ZF, and ZTE. Five of the new entrants are US-based, while three new entrants each are from Germany and China.

The Top 100 Global Innovators list was released as part of the Innovation Momentum 2025: The Global Top 100 report. The report also focused on the blurring boundaries between traditional stand-alone industries and technologies as innovations like digitization, wireless connectivity, and mobile devices have started to erase boundaries that once seemed clear. The report illustrated the growing overlap in areas like autonomous and electric vehicles, 5G technologies, and biotechnology/pharma.

The report also explored the contribution of AI-related patents to the total portfolio strength, as measured by the Patent Asset Index, of Top 100 companies in the four largest industries represented in the list. Unsurprisingly, the Information Technologies industry stands at the forefront of AI innovation with roughly 15% of the total strength of the aggregate portfolios of companies represented in the industry derived from AI-related inventions.

The following are this year’s Top 100 Global Innovators:

Top 100 Global Innovators in Alphabetical Order with
Global Headquarters and Industry Sector

While the report focused on corporate patent owners, a parallel analysis was done of academic and public research innovators to recognize their achievements as well. Among those institutions, Broad Institute, Fraunhofer, Harvard, MIT, Stanford University, University of California, and Zhejiang University were recognized for demonstrating exceptional Innovation Momentum, while developing relevant and high-quality patent portfolios.

The full report is available for download at https://www.lexisnexisip.com/innovation-momentum-report.

About the Methodology

LexisNexis^® conducted an analysis across its database of nearly 16 million global patent families to identify companies that are leaders in global innovation. The methodology was based on the LexisNexis Patent Asset Index, which was used to measure the strength and quality of a company’s patent assets. The analysis tracked exceptional shifts in patent portfolio quality over the last two years to identify the companies named as the “Top 100 Global Innovators” in this year’s “Innovation Momentum 2025” report.

About LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional

LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis^® and Nexis^® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

About LexisNexis^® Intellectual Property Solutions

LexisNexis^® Intellectual Property Solutions bring clarity to innovation for businesses worldwide. We enable innovators to accomplish more by helping them make informed decisions, be more productive, comply with regulations, and ultimately achieve a competitive advantage for their business. Our broad suite of workflow and analytics solutions (LexisNexis^® PatentSight+, LexisNexis^® Classification, LexisNexis^® TechDiscovery, LexisNexis^® IPlytics, LexisNexis PatentOptimizer^®, LexisNexis PatentAdvisor^®, and LexisNexis TotalPatent One^®, LexisNexis^® IP DataDirect), enables companies to be more efficient and effective at bringing meaningful innovations to our world. We are proud to directly support and serve these innovators in their endeavors to better humankind.

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Bringing clarity to innovation

New York, NY – February 13, 2025 – National Programs’ National Advertising Division recommended that Total Wireless, a brand of Tracfone Wireless, a subsidiary of Verizon Communications Inc., modify its ads to avoid suggesting customers get both four lines for $25/month and four free 5G phones. 

Fast-Track SWIFT is an expedited challenge process designed for single-issue advertising cases brought to the National Advertising Division (NAD). At issue was whether Total Wireless made an unsupported claim that its customers can get both four lines of wireless service for $25 per month and four free 5G phones.

Total Wireless aired a commercial claiming it “has your back every day,” unlike other prepaid brands such as Metro by T-Mobile. The spokesman says, “Fact them,” with screen text restating the qualifying conditions for each offer: “We run on the network with America’s fastest 5G speeds for as low as $25 a month. They don’t,” that Total Wireless offers a five-year price guarantee, as well as “and to top it all off, we’ll give you up to four free 5G phones,” with text on screen that qualifies the four free phones is applicable “When you switch to the Total 5G+ Unlimited plan.”

After review, NAD found that though the visual cues in the commercial delineate the offers, the audio does not.

In addition, when presenting the last offer, NAD determined that the phrase, “and to top it all off, we’ll give you up to four free 5G phones,” implies the last part of a single offer. However, the audio does not indicate that Total Wireless offers different plan tiers and that the available benefits may depend on the particular plan that the consumer selects.

Therefore, NAD determined that the commercial conveys the unsupported message that Total Wireless customers can get both four lines of wireless service for $25 per month and get four free 5G phones regardless of the plan they select, and recommended Total Wireless modify its advertising to avoid conveying such a message.

In its advertiser statement Total Wireless stated that while it, “disagrees with the decision, it supports industry self-regulation and will comply with NAD’s recommendations in its future advertising.”

All BBB National Programs case decision summaries can be found in the case decision library. For the full text of NAD, NARB, and CARU decisions, subscribe to the online archive.

About BBB National Programs: BBB National Programs, a non-profit organization, is the home of U.S. independent industry self-regulation, currently operating more than a dozen globally recognized programs that have been helping enhance consumer trust in business for more than 50 years. These programs provide third-party accountability and dispute resolution services that address existing and emerging industry issues, create a fairer playing field for businesses, and a better experience for consumers. BBB National Programs continues to evolve its work and grow its impact by providing business guidance and fostering best practices in arenas such as advertising, child-and-teen-directed marketing, data privacy, dispute resolution, automobile warranty, technology, and emerging areas. To learn more, visit bbbprograms.org.

About the National Advertising Division: The National Advertising Division (NAD) of BBB National Programs provides independent self-regulation and dispute resolution services, guiding the truthfulness of advertising across the U.S. NAD reviews national advertising in all media and its decisions set consistent standards for advertising truth and accuracy, delivering meaningful protection to consumers and leveling the playing field for business.  

Report shows 80% feel genAI has met or exceeded expectations but insufficient training, lack of trust, and ethical considerations remain barriers to realizing its full value

NEW YORK — February 11, 2025 — LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of AI-powered analytics and decision tools, today released results from its second annual LexisNexis Future of Work Report, which demonstrates growing maturity and active exploration of generative AI (genAI) adoption. With more than 1,800 responses from professionals globally, the report reveals that 82% of respondents are open to the adoption of genAI technologies and products, with 73% indicating confidence in genAI’s capabilities and expecting a positive impact on day-to-day tasks.

Most notably, the survey reveals that professionals are no longer cautiously experimenting with genAI but are actively utilizing the technology to reap significant benefits in productivity and efficiency. Compared to LexisNexis’ 2024 Future of Work Report, the 2025 survey shows that respondents no longer see genAI as somewhat experimental but as a performance booster, with 80% noting genAI has met or exceeded their expectations. Significantly, 53% of professionals also noted saving one to two hours per day with genAI while 30% saw a three- to four-hour savings, reflecting a clear return on investment for organizations implementing the technology.

“As genAI becomes more integral to business, it’s transforming how we innovate and solve problems. To keep this momentum, we need to strategically implement AI tools that enhance human expertise and shape the future of work,” said Snehit Cherian, Chief Technology Officer of Nexis Solutions, a division of LexisNexis. “By using genAI effectively, we can boost productivity, drive innovation, and ensure long-term success.”

Additional insights and findings show:

• GenAI Reshaping Industries and Automating Tasks: GenAI continues to reshape industries including Professional Services & Consulting, Financial Services, Technology, Healthcare, and Education, with technology-focused industries showing the highest adoption of AI tools, and the financial sector also showing strong engagement. In terms of tasks, the top three areas where genAI excels among professionals are automating routine tasks, data analysis and insights, and creating written content.
• C-Suite Leaders Remain Committed to GenAI and Innovation: C-Suite leaders continue to demonstrate a strong readiness to utilize genAI, with more than half being “extremely” open to these new technologies and 84% being open overall – the highest level among all the career stages – underscoring their ongoing commitment to innovation.
• Generational and Career Synergy Enhances AI Integration: A blend of generational perspectives and career stages reveals that genAI thrives when experience meets technological fluency. Millennials and Gen-X professionals lead the charge in terms of AI integration, using their digital fluency to enhance productivity and foster innovation, while Gen Z’s inherent tech- savviness promises to further accelerate AI adoption.

Trust, Ethical Considerations and Training Required for GenAI Use and Adoption

While organizations are apt to explore and adopt genAI tools, barriers of trust, ethical concerns, and training must be addressed to attain genAI’s full value. 47% of surveyed organizations indicated concerns about data privacy or security and 44% noted a lack of trust in the accuracy of genAI outputs. When it comes to removing these hurdles, a multi-faceted approach is required, including:

• Clear organizational policies that balance security with innovation
• Better integration solutions for existing systems
• Comprehensive training programs
• Structured approaches to evaluating and implementing AI tools

By aligning AI initiatives with business objectives and continuously adapting to advancements, professionals and organizations can realize significant returns on their genAI investments.

For more details or to access the LexisNexis 2025 Future of Work report, please visit http://lexisnexis.com/futureofwork.

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LexisNexis® Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. For more information, please visit https://www.lexisnexis.com.

New York, NY – February 6, 2025 – A panel of BBB National Programs’ National Advertising Review Board, the body that reviews appeals of decisions made by the National Advertising Division, determined T-Mobile US, Inc.’s claim, “save 20% every month vs. the other big guys,” is supported.

In the underlying National Advertising Division (NAD) case (#7402), Charter Communications, Inc. challenged T-Mobile’s commercial featuring Patrick Mahomes, Snoop Dogg, and influencer Kai Cenat. In the commercial, T-Mobile advertises that “families can save 20% vs. the other big guys” with T-Mobile wireless service.

In its decision, NAD recommended that T-Mobile discontinue or modify the challenged advertising to make clear the companies that are the object of comparison and avoid conveying the message that customers can save 20% compared to Spectrum Mobile in the first year of service.

The National Advertising Review Board (NARB) panel disagreed with the NAD decision and determined that, in the mobile phone category, the “big guys” are Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, based on their significant market shares. The panel determined that consumers would not consider Spectrum Mobile, with its smaller market share, to be in that category.

Regarding the pricing claim, the NARB panel found that T-Mobile’s claim that consumers can, but not necessarily will, save 20% versus Spectrum Mobile is valid. The panel noted the availability of a “savings calculator” on T-Mobile’s website that allows consumers to calculate possible savings.

In its advertiser statement, T-Mobile stated that it “appreciates the panel’s careful consideration of the parties’ arguments” and “remains a strong supporter of the self-regulation process.”

All BBB National Programs case decision summaries can be found in the case decision library. For the full text of NAD, NARB, and CARU decisions, subscribe to the online archive. This press release shall not be used for advertising or promotional purposes.

About BBB National Programs: BBB National Programs, a non-profit organization, is the home of U.S. independent industry self-regulation, currently operating more than a dozen globally recognized programs that have been helping enhance consumer trust in business for more than 50 years. These programs provide third-party accountability and dispute resolution services that address existing and emerging industry issues, create a fairer playing field for businesses, and a better experience for consumers. BBB National Programs continues to evolve its work and grow its impact by providing business guidance and fostering best practices in arenas such as advertising, child-and-teen-directed marketing, data privacy, dispute resolution, automobile warranty, technology, and emerging areas. To learn more, visit bbbprograms.org.

About the National Advertising Review Board (NARB): The National Advertising Review Board (NARB) is the appellate body for BBB National Programs’ advertising self-regulatory programs. NARB’s panel members include 85 distinguished volunteer professionals from the national advertising industry, agencies, and public members, such as academics and former members of the public sector. NARB serves as a layer of independent industry peer review that helps engender trust and compliance in NAD, CARU, and DSSRC matters.

New York, NY – February 3, 2025 – As part of its routine monitoring program, BBB National Programs’ National Advertising Division found that certain efficacy claims for SBLA Beauty, Inc.’s Eye Lift Wand and its “breakthrough formula, including the patent-pending SBLA66Peptide, a truly revolutionary molecule” were supported.

However, the National Advertising Division (NAD) recommended that other claims be discontinued, including those conveying the unsupported message that the Eye Lift Wand can produce results similar to those achieved with an eyelift or other cosmetic surgical procedure.

Efficacy Claims

Based on SBLA’s pending patent application for SBLA66Peptide, NAD determined the claim “breakthrough formula, including the patent-pending SBLA66Peptide, a truly revolutionary molecule” is supported.

NAD also determined that certain claims regarding the key benefits of the Eye Lift Wand were supported by a reasonable basis, including:

• Opens the eye area by lifting the eyelids
• Lifts droopy eyelids; Tightens the skin of the entire eye area
• Diminishes crow’s feet and under-eye puffiness
• Improves skin texture and discoloration

Further, NAD found that the portion of the claim that refers to “continuous daily use [visible results] improve progressively” (“Visible results are immediate and with continuous daily use improve progressively”) was supported because SBLA’s expert assessment results show noticeable improvements over time.

NAD concluded that the claim “the first-ever eyelift at home, clinically proven to lift and smooth the eyelid in minutes” reasonably conveys that the product is an at-home alternative to plastic surgery by delivering a noticeably more youthful appearance in the eye area in minutes.

However, NAD found that while SBLA’s evidence demonstrated improved appearance in the eye area, the results are not comparable to an eyelift surgery. Accordingly, NAD recommended that SBLA discontinue the “try the first-ever eyelift at home” portion of the claim “try the first-ever eyelift at home, clinically proven to lift & smooth the eyelid in minutes” and similar claims to avoid conveying the unsupported message that the product can produce results similar to an eyelift or other cosmetic surgical procedure.

NAD also recommended that:

• The “clinically proven to lift & smooth the eyelid in minutes” portion of the claim “try the first-ever eyelift at home, clinically proven to lift & smooth the eyelid in minutes” and “visible results are immediate” portion of the claim “visible results are immediate and with continuous daily use improve progressively” be modified to indicate that the immediate visible results are for eye brightness or, in the alternative, that they reflect the subjective assessment results; and
• The “smooths” and “visibly smooths” portions of the “visibly smooths eyelid creases” and “Smooths…eyelid creases” be modified to match the evidence in the record.

Before and After Photographs

NAD noted that the before-and-after photos appear to represent an outlier result that is not representative of the photos in SBLA’s clinical study. Since outlier results cannot be highlighted as representative of what consumers can reasonably expect to achieve when using the product as directed, NAD recommended they be discontinued or modified to accurately reflect the results of the study, including disclosure of the length of time of use.

During the proceeding, SLBA informed NAD that it was permanently discontinuing the claim “Builds collagen and regenerates skin cells.” Therefore, NAD did not review this claim on its merits and will treat the claim, for compliance purposes, as though NAD recommended it be discontinued.

In its advertiser statement, SBLA stated that it agrees to comply with NAD’s recommendations.

All BBB National Programs case decision summaries can be found in the case decision library. For the full text of NAD, NARB, and CARU decisions, subscribe to the online archive. This press release shall not be used for advertising or promotional purposes.

About BBB National Programs: BBB National Programs, a non-profit organization, is the home of U.S. independent industry self-regulation, currently operating more than a dozen globally recognized programs that have been helping enhance consumer trust in business for more than 50 years. These programs provide third-party accountability and dispute resolution services that address existing and emerging industry issues, create a fairer playing field for businesses, and a better experience for consumers. BBB National Programs continues to evolve its work and grow its impact by providing business guidance and fostering best practices in arenas such as advertising, child-and-teen-directed marketing, data privacy, dispute resolution, automobile warranty, technology, and emerging areas. To learn more, visit bbbprograms.org.

About the National Advertising Division: The National Advertising Division of BBB National Programs provides independent self-regulation and dispute resolution services, guiding the truthfulness of advertising across the U.S. The National Advertising Division reviews national advertising in all media and its decisions set consistent standards for advertising truth and accuracy, delivering meaningful protection to consumers and leveling the playing field for business.

LexisNexis proprietary conversational search technology powers accurate, transparent results faster

New York, NY – January 30, 2025 – LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of AI-powered analytics and decision tools, today unveiled an enhanced conversational search and research experience in Nexis+ AI. The powerful proprietary search technology further accelerates research and decisioning intelligence functions by enabling conversation-based searching across the Nexis+ AI expansive repository of licensed news publications and corporate data – including the industry’s largest collection of Gen AI-approved news datasets.

Launched in July 2024, Nexis+ AI is a powerful business intelligence platform that gives researchers AI-based tools to accelerate routine research tasks, including data discovery, document analysis, report synthesis and news summarization. The new conversational search capability creates digestible, multi-source responses to research questions, with linked citations to all information sources used for greater transparency. A traditional search results list compiled from the entire LexisNexis repository of licensed news sources is also provided.

To enhance the precision and reliability of its responses and minimize hallucinations, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technologies generate responses from authoritative data sources within the LexisNexis collection, and global news content from thousands of licensed publications including The Associated Press, McClatchy and Gannett. This is a part of a four-pronged approach LexisNexis takes to deliver exceptional results within Nexis+ AI. The product also leverages a range of automated metrics to detect hallucinations and validate relevance, a humans-in-the-loop practice, and transparent citations back to original source content for quality checks and user-led validation.

“Conversational search allows Nexis+ AI users to engage with our industry-leading corporate data and global news content in ways that were never possible before, rapidly delivering valuable, trustworthy business insights that lead to faster, more accurate business decisioning and increased market competitiveness,” said Dani McCormick, Vice President of Product, Nexis Solutions. “Designing thoughtfully by respecting the integrity of publisher and user data enables us to deliver practical, time-saving AI solutions that solve a multitude of business challenges for our customers.”

Enterprise AI Solutions Built on Transparency, Security, Privacy and Trust

In addition to increased accuracy and transparency, Nexis+ AI places a heavy emphasis on data privacy, security and compliance so organizations can be more confident in the use of advanced AI technologies.

All Nexis+ AI conversations are stored in a secure, encrypted environment and are purged after 90 days. This prevents them from being accessed externally and they will not be used to train foundational AI models, protecting the intellectual property of both Nexis+ AI users and LexisNexis’s publishing partners. In addition, Nexis+ AI’s Privacy-by-Design principles ensure strict compliance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. LexisNexis, part of RELX, follows the RELX Responsible AI Principles, considering the real-world impact of its solutions on people and taking action to prevent the creation or reinforcement of unfair bias.

Organizations interested in learning more about Nexis+ AI, including exclusive news and engagement opportunities, can join the free Nexis+ AI Insider Program at www.lexisnexis.com/insiderprogram.

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LexisNexis® Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

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