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How to Protect and Clear Your Medical Device During Development

By EsqSocial Corporation 29/10/20

Partner Hussein Akhavannik breaks down specific patent protection and clearance strategies for each stage of medical device development, from concept and design to the manufacturing and sale....
By: BakerHostetler

[Audio] Isla del Encanto-Introducing Boricua Split Dollar

By EsqSocial Corporation 29/10/20

Nowotny On Death and Taxes podcast episode #28, Introducing Boricua Split Dollar discusses combining the best of Puerto Rican tax incentives with the best sophisticated high end life insurance planning to produce superior results for the business owner....

Ontario, Canada: Bill 218 Would Introduce COVID-19 Liability Protection with Exceptions

By EsqSocial Corporation 29/10/20

On October 20, 2020, Ontario introduced Bill 218, Supporting Ontario’s Recovery and Municipal Elections Act, 2020 (Bill 218) for First Reading.

Amendments to the New York City Earned Safe and Sick Time Act

By EsqSocial Corporation 29/10/20

In April 2020, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law new paid sick/safe leave requirements for all New York State employers (the “State Law”). We provided a summary of the State Law in our previous client alert.

CDC Revises Definition of "Close Contact," Expanding Scope of Employer Workplace Contact Tracing

By EsqSocial Corporation 29/10/20

If an employer learns that an employee infected with COVID-19 was at the workplace, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other public health authorities encourage or require the employer to identify other employees who were in "close contact" with the sick employee while that

Patent Case Summaries - October 2020 #4

By EsqSocial Corporation 29/10/20

A weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board....

IRS Issues Section 1446(f) Final Regulations

By EsqSocial Corporation 29/10/20

On 7 October 2020, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released final regulations under Code Section 1446(f) (the Final Regulations), which clarify aspects of the withholding requirements with respect to the disposition of partnership interests by non-U.S.

Historic $2.9 Billion Anti-Bribery Settlement Has Important Takeaways for Manufacturers

By EsqSocial Corporation 29/10/20

It would be a mistake to think that the $2.9 billion settlement Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has agreed to pay in order to resolve allegations of widespread bribes to government officials in Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates has no relevance to those in the manufacturing industry....

When Sugars are Not Counted as Sugars: FDA Clarifies Nutrition Facts Labeling Requirements for Allulose

By EsqSocial Corporation 29/10/20

Key Points - The FDA will exercise enforcement discretion when Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels (a) exclude allulose from Total Sugars and Added Sugars declarations, and (b) use as low as 0.4 kcal/g for allulose calorie count; but allulose must be included as a Total Carbohydrate....

DOJ Procurement Collusion Strike Force Announces a Permanent Director and Brings Its First Public Indictment Against an Engineering Firm and Former Executive

By EsqSocial Corporation 29/10/20

Last November, the Department of Justice announced that it was forming a government procurement collusion strike force comprised of prosecutors from both the DOJ Antitrust Division and United States Attorney’s offices from across the country, the FBI, and Inspectors General from the Department of

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