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Barack Obama signed the bipartisan Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act on 22 June of this year. This Act, which came into immediate effect, amends the core provisions of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the primary...

On Wednesday, June 22, 2016, President Obama signed the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (“Pub. L. No. 114-182”) into law, asserting “[i]f we can get this bill done, it means that somewhere out there on the horizon, we can...

Who: Clawback agreement; alias: Rule 502 Agreement. What: A mechanism to take back inadvertently disclosed privileged and/or confidential information and protect against an argument that you waived privilege....

Uber and Lyft, perhaps two of the most widely known gig economy employers, have resolved their nearly two-year legal battle which started when Lyft sued Travis VanderZanden, Lyft’s former COO, who left Lyft and became a top executive at Uber. The...

When an employee claims to own his employer’s software, the analysis will turn to whether that employee was an “author” for the purposes of the Copyright Act, and what the employee “contributed” to the software. This, in turn, raises the question of...

While the news for healthcare practitioners regarding regulatory liability under Federal law had largely been positive as of late, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld a new standard of liability under the False Claims Act in the case of...

FTC Raises Civil Penalty Maximums - On June 29, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) adjusted the maximum civil penalties for violations of 16 provisions, including the premerger filing notification violation provisions under the...

Prenatal testing enables parents to make a difficult decision no one would want to face: whether to terminate a pregnancy based on a genetic defect. This testing has helped many parents but it is an imperfect science and the people who perform tests don’t always interpret results properly.

Chris Tavantzis and ChrisTrikes Custom Motorcycles, Inc. ("ChrisTrikes") filed a complaint against a number of individuals and entities that allegedly infringed on a patent for a wheelchair-accessible motorcycle (the "Wheelchair Motorcycle Patent")....

Avid Technology, Inc. v. Harmonic Inc., C.A. No. 11-1040 – GMS, June 29, 2016. Sleet, J. Claim construction opinion issues regarding one term from one patent....
By: Morris James LLP

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