On May 18, the CFPB issued a report titled “Single-Payment Vehicle Title Lending.” The report provides an overview of the CFPB’s analysis of “de-identified data from vehicle title lenders consisting of nearly 3.5 million loans made to over 400,000...
An Australian Court has just ruled that for a given patent claim to be valid, every promise about the invention in the specification must be delivered by enacting that claim.... By: Freehills Patent Attorneys
Weirton Medical Center, Inc. (“WMC”), a hospital in West Virginia, entered into an agreement with QHR Intensive Resources, LLC, under which QHR provided hospital administrative services. WMC ultimately terminated the agreement and refused to pay...
On May 26, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued its decision in Lewis v. Epic-Systems Corp., finding that the company's arbitration agreement, which prohibits employees from participating in “any class, collective or...
Lloyd’s updates requirements for performance management - Lloyd’s has published a market bulletin to update its “Performance Management – Supplemental Requirements and Guidance”. It consolidates a number of existing requirements and guidance which...
Make sure your retail tenant’s “exclusive use” applies to all shopping center parcels. An “exclusive use” provision in a lease is a retail tenant’s best friend — it prohibits the landlord from allowing other space in a shopping center to be used...
The Question Worth Pondering: Innovation Provokers or Idea Thieves? - In the past five years Cisco and J.C. Penney have spent close to $350 million fending off demands from patent trolls, which are more politely known as 'patent assertion...
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a post on its Liberty Street Economics blog assessing the impact of interagency guidance intended to curtail leveraged lending issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve...
The ability to electronically perform transactions between individuals, and individuals and public bodies, has transformed the way business is conducted and the manner in which services are rendered to members of the public. In recent years, laws...
