By Ingrid Fredeen* – American Airlines, The Coca-Cola Co., Humana, Macy’s and Ford. All among the best-known brands in the world, each a stalwart of American business. All of them are among the most transgender-inclusive companies in the country according to the Workplace Equality Program at the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), an advocacy group for […]
Spilman Thomas & Battle PLC* – In what is potentially the largest “patent troll” verdict in history, Apple has lost a $625 million patent jury award to VirnetX, according to Reuters news service. The jury verdict in the Eastern District of Texas includes $334.9 million for infringement occurring prior to filing and an additional $290.7
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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw & Pittman – The future of ride-sharing companies has hung in the balance for more than two years while class actions and labor complaints were pending against industry giants Uber, Lyft and others. The ride-sharing companies have primarily fought with their drivers over the driver’s employment status—a conflict between whether the drivers
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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman – In our recent post, Living in a Nonmaterial World: Determining IP Rights for Digital Data, we discussed the potential impact of the Federal Circuit decision in ClearCorrect v. ITC, 2014-1527, in which the appeals court held that the “articles that infringe” are limited to “material things” and thus do not
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Morrison & Foerster – Aaron P. Rubin and Daniel A. Zlatnik Operators of social media platforms and other websites typically manage their risks by imposing terms of use or terms of service for the sites. As we previously wrote, websites must implement such terms properly to ensure that they are enforceable. Specifically, users must be
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Tommy Wyher* For too long now, and all over the world, irrational drug laws have seriously interfered with medical research. Marijuana is yet to be legalized in many parts of the world, and as a result there is even a hindrance on medical research. Despite the fact that we have established that marijuana does
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Navex Global – To help prepare compliance professionals for the year ahead, we’ve talked with industry experts, our colleagues at NAVEX Global, and ethics and compliance professionals from our more than 12,500 client organizations to gather insights on the top issues and trends that will impact compliance programs in 2016. We’ll share each of the
WickerParker Group* – The year is still new, but the refrain remains the same. Lawyers in firms are finally back at work, catching up from the protracted holiday break and now excited about the promise the new year brings. Yet I’ve already had the conversation with a client about the “attitude” busy lawyers have when
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Foley Hoag, David Kluft* – Haven’t seen the new Star Wars movie yet? The pop culture zeitgeist recommends that you binge-watch all six of the prior Star Wars movies before going to see Episode VII, The Force Awakens and, according to the Washington Post, there is some controversy about the proper binge-watching order. Should you watch them
Dorsey & Whitney – Superman has triumphed yet again, this time with help from the federal court in the Central District of California. It wasn’t actually Superman that scored this particular victory, but DC Comics, owner of the trademark rights in Superman’s iconic shield design. On December 15, 2015, the court in DC Comics v.
