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The PTAB Is Unimpressed by Unsupported Attorney Argument

By EsqSocial Corporation 13/08/14

BAE Systems Info. and Electronic Sys. Integration, Inc. v. Cheetah Omni, LLC - In a final written decision, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) found several claims of the patent at issue unpatentable as anticipated and obvious. The PTAB...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Withdraws Proposal to List North American Wolverine as Threatened

By EsqSocial Corporation 13/08/14

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announced today that it is withdrawing its proposal to list the North American wolverine (Gulo gulo luscus) as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The decision to withdraw the listing...

Can You Hear the Whistle Blowing?: SEC Punishes Company that Did Not Address Fraud Allegations by Whistleblower

By EsqSocial Corporation 13/08/14

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced the latest whistleblower bounty awarded under the Dodd-Frank Act, which authorizes rewards for original information about violations of securities laws. Whistleblowers can receive 10...

CMS Temporarily Closes the Open Payments System

By EsqSocial Corporation 13/08/14

Open Payments is the website through which pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers (“Manufacturers”) report payments and transfers of value to physicians and teaching hospitals, as required by the Sunshine Act....

EPA Approves Maine's NOx Waiver Request – VOC Waiver Request Still Pending

By EsqSocial Corporation 13/08/14

Since the mid-1990s, Maine has had an EPA-approved waiver from the ozone nonattainment new source review (NNSR) requirements for NOx covering, at a minimum, areas of the state that attain the ozone standard. The NOx waiver has been renewed several...

China Update - August 2014

By EsqSocial Corporation 13/08/14

In This Issue: - U.S.-China Relations - Chinese Embassy News - Energy & Environment - Trade - Excerpt from U.S.-China Relations: 2013 Report on International Religious Freedom - On July 28, the State Department released the 2013...

Purdue Pharm. Products, L.P. v. Actavis Elizabeth, LLC (D.N.J.)

By EsqSocial Corporation 13/08/14

Plaintiffs hold an NDA covering tablets containing two strengths of zolpidem tartrate, which is used in the treatment of middle-of-the-night insomnia. In July 2013, TWi Pharms., Inc. (“TWi”) submitted an ANDA containing a paragraph IV certification,...

Legislative Update Report No. 2014-15 - Aug 2014

By EsqSocial Corporation 13/08/14

In This Article: - Federal Government - Alberta - British Columbia - Manitoba - New Brunswick - Newfoundland - Northwest Territories - Nova Scotia - Nunavut - Ontario - Prince Edward Island - Québec/Quebec - Saskatchewan -...

FAA investigates Southwest Airlines after whistleblower comes forward

By EsqSocial Corporation 13/08/14

A former Southwest Airlines cargo manager was allegedly fired for blowing the whistle on the unsafe transportation of hazardous materials on Southwest Airlines' passenger planes. The whistleblower, Jeffrey Bondurant, also questioned whether Southwest...

Robin Williams Set Up a Trust for His Kids. Should You?

By EsqSocial Corporation 13/08/14

Actor Robin Williams passed after taking his own life on Monday, but a trust he set up before his death aims to legally protect his children. According to TMZ, the legendary comedian set up a trust while he was alive to provide for his three children: Cody, 22; Zelda,......

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