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The America Invents Act, adopted in September 2011, introduced the new inter partes review (IPR) procedure, providing an opportunity to challenge the validity of issued patents at the US Patent and Trademark Office. Thus far, these IPR procedures are...

A police chase in Louisiana ended abruptly Thursday when the vehicle officers were pursuing crashed into the Vermilion Parish Courthouse.

On February 27, 2014, a bill (S1595) was introduced that appears to establish an increase in the minimum wage for tipped New Jersey employees—first to 40 percent of the standard minimum wage, and then after one year, to 69 percent of the standard...

On March 19, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a list of the responses it received to its November 2013 consultation on draft guidelines for complaints handling in the securities and banking sectors. The list includes...

In a ruling highly anticipated among government contractors, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held on February 11, 2014, in Metcalf Construction Company, Inc. v. United States, No. 2013-5041 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 11, 2014), that a...

Investors in private equity funds (Funds) typically invest in blind pools, under which passive investors commit to invest a designated amount of cash in a Fund over an investment period while relying solely upon the Fund’s sponsor (Sponsor) to...

On January 29, 2014, Stratas J.A. of the Federal Court of Appeal granted two motions to intervene in Canada (Attorney General) v. Pictou Landing First Nation. In deciding those motions, Stratas J.A. commented on the factors to consider in granting or...

Former Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis agreed to pay $10 million and to be barred from serving as an officer or director of a public company for three years to settle fraud charges brought by the New York Attorney General based on the firm’s...

People who consistently miss the point are frustrating. Focus is an important discipline. Whatever you do in life, the ability to focus is critical....
By: Michael Volkov

Regular readers of entreVIEW are no doubt aware that the Minnesota Angel Tax Credit, a frequent topic of interest here, ran out of funds a few weeks ago. The $12.2 million available for issuance had been used up by early March, as predicted in a...

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