January 15, 2014 | Inside Counsel
SEC aggression to increase against compliance officersThe SEC will now seek to hold compliance officers personally reliable for their companies' failures in a newly aggressive change of tack.
By Juliana Kenny
2 minute read
January 14, 2014 | Inside Counsel
Technology's disruptive effect on copyright lawAereo is being brought to the steps of the high court to defend itself against U.S. TV broadcasters who claim it unlawfully skirts retransmission fees using its antennae technology.
By Juliana Kenny
3 minute read
January 10, 2014 | Inside Counsel
Publisher cracks down on authors of academic articlesIn early December 2013, Elsevier began issuing massive numbers of takedown requests to Academia.edu -- a social networking website for academics -- as well as Harvard University, the University of Calgary, and the University of California-Irvine.
By Juliana Kenny
2 minute read
January 09, 2014 | Inside Counsel
Wage-and-hour lawsuit wave to continue into 2014A report titled the Workplace Class Action Litigation Report created for the tenth year in a row by Seyfarth Shaw L.L.P. cites the increased use of mobile devices as perhaps a bane for employers caught in labor litigation.
By Juliana Kenny
10 minute read
January 08, 2014 | Inside Counsel
Canadian IP law leaves room for improvementCanada has been on the Special 301 Report -- a report listing the countries that fail to adequately set in place intellectual property protection legislation -- for 23 of the 25 years that the report has existed.
By Juliana Kenny
2 minute read
January 07, 2014 | Inside Counsel
Stem cell research at center of lawsuit for public advocacy groupA new legal suit against the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which has a patent on stem cells derived from human embryos, has been brought on by the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog in what Consumer Watchdog claims is research that is too similar to earlier work and therefore undeserved to be owned...
By Juliana Kenny
2 minute read
January 03, 2014 | Inside Counsel
California grants law license to undocumented immigrantGarcia was just issued a law license by the state of California as of January 1.
By Juliana Kenny
2 minute read
December 30, 2013 | Inside Counsel
Startups still face big challenges from U.S. patent lawThe protection of intellectual property is no less important for smaller companies than it is for larger ones, and the technology industry is one of the most competitive landscapes for emerging businesses that need to ensure their IP is secured.
By Juliana Kenny
2 minute read
December 27, 2013 | Inside Counsel
Nokia could take on Google for mapping patentsA newer claim has entered the arena with two other big-name global technology companies: Nokia and Google.
By Juliana Kenny
5 minute read
December 26, 2013 | Inside Counsel
Canadian Supreme Court gives one year for revision of prostitution lawsA December 20 decision by Canada's Supreme Court gives legislators one year to revise laws regulating sex work to make them more fair to the sex workers themselves. The unanimous decision determined that current legislation endangers the lives of sex workers insomuch that it prevents those in the line of...
By Juliana Kenny
2 minute read