April 1, 2014, is the first day USCIS will accept H-1B petitions for quota/cap-subject cases for FY 2015, commencing October 1, 2014. Only 65,000 H-1Bs are available nationwide per year for new jobs for foreign workers requiring Bachelor’s degrees,...

On March 21, 2014 Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) submitted its round zero proposal to the Secretaría de Energía (SENER), Mexico’s department of energy. Although the details of the proposal are not yet public, SENER has indicated Pemex seeks to retain...

Last week, we placed the union recognition effort of Northwestern University’s football players as the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region in our blog entry of issues that may change the face of the Final Four. That issue has now certainly cemented its...

Addressing a lower court’s ruling of non-infringement after claim construction, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded the non-infringement decision, finding that the lower court construed relevant terms too narrowly....