Patents are often a company’s most important asset. Thus, when a company is contracting with the federal government, the contractor has to proceed with caution to avoid loss of patent rights. Government contracts can include various forms of patent...
In This Issue: Energy and Climate Debate; Congress; Administration; Department of Defense; Department of Energy; Department of Interior; Department of Justice; Department of Transportation; Environmental Protection Agency; Federal Energy...
More companies looking to keep pace with the fast-changing mobile market are busily buying up app developers. Google spent almost $1 billion in June to acquire traffic app developer Waze. Apptopia is a growing online marketplace for the buying and...
What language is needed in the ERISA plan to confer discretion? The bar was just raised in the 4th Circuit. Here’s the case of Cosey v. Prudential Insurance Company of America, [PDF] __F.3d__ (November 12, 2013)....
The European Court of Justice decided on 21 November 2013 that EU national courts must assume that a measure qualifies as State aid, if the European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into that measure....
Backstop Capital Requirements, Higher Loss Absorption, Global Insurance Capital Standards: What Applies to Whom and When? In July 2013, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) designated nine insurance groups as global systemically important insurers...
Management at both Dentons and McKenna Long & Aldridge had recommended to partners that the two law firms merge. But partners at McKenna balked at the plan when it was put to a vote, the Wall Street Journal Law Blog (sub. req.) reports.
Lawyers for craft store Hobby Lobby will get a chance to challenge Obamacare's contraceptive mandate before the U.S. Supreme Court, after justices agreed to take the appeal on Tuesday.
In a recent decision, the Court of Appeals of Texas for the Fourteenth District revisited the scope of the appraisal process in light of the prior holding in State Farm Lloyds v. Johnson, 290 S.W.3d 886 (Tex. 2009)....
LinkedIn.com has introduced a special type of Company page they are calling Showcase pages, where organizations with multiple services, products and brands can concentrate on a single product line and aggregate its own community of interest....
