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A Modern Look At The Nine Patent Licensing ‘No-Nos’ (Part Two): The Last Five ‘No-Nos’
In our last edition, we addressed the first four “no-nos” and their current status under U.S. antitrust law. Here’s a discussion of the remaining five. In the 1970s, Bruce Wilson, a former deputy assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department Read More
Dodd-Frank Implementation Update
Title VII of the Dodd-Frank financial reform, titled the “Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act of 2010” (the “Act”), was enacted on July 21, 2010.[1] Under the Act, which is generally intended to bring the $650 trillion over-the-counter derivatives market Read More
Party Foul! NLRB Orders Reinstatement and Back Pay for Party Bus Guide After Finding Facebook Postings Amount to Protected Union Organizing Activity
Providing yet another example of how online social networking can amount to protected conduct under the National Labor Relations Act, the NLRB ruled earlier this month in New York Party Shuttle, LLC and Fred Pflantzer, CN: 02-CA-073340 that a New Read More
European Commission Publishes Proposed Legislative Reforms of EU Banks
On May 6, the European Commission published a roadmap for legislative changes. This follows the October 2012 publication of the Liikanen report, which provided a set of recommendations on banking reform sponsored by the Commission. The initiative seeks to address issues in the EU Read More
What’s the Right Way to Respond to a Shareholder Books and Records Request?
Delaware law gives shareholders the right to request corporate books and records in order to investigate issues that are of interest to them. For several decades now, Delaware courts have encouraged shareholders to take advantage of this right as a Read More
Texas Insiders Say Businesses Champing at the Bit for New Trade Secrets Law to Take Effect
For decades, Texas was the wild west of trade secrets law, governed by the state’s outdated common law with no trade secrets statute on the books. That changed May 3 when Governor Rick Perry signed legislation making Texas the 48th Read More
