May 17, 2023 Don't Wait Too Long to File for a Patent By Coby Nixon As a patent lawyer, I was excited to come across a Wall Street Journal article the other day about patent strategies, but the title -...
May 25, 2023 Brad Jubber Published an Intellectual Property Article in the Know Your Legal Rights Column of the State Bar of Wisconsin By Bradley Jubber I’m excited to announce that I authored the article “Intellectual Property Rights for Emerging Businesses” for the State Bar of...
May 25, 2023 Lawmakers Push to Increase Federal Privacy Protection for Kids By Mitzi Hill Lawmakers at the state level have advanced or passed multiple actions in the last couple of years relating to kids' privacy online, as...
May 25, 2023 Michael Melfi Speaks on NIL Panel By Taylor English Taylor English partner Michael Melfi spoke on a name, image, likeness (NIL) panel at the 2023 Midwest Growth Capital Symposium for the...
May 24, 2023 Filing "Schedule A" Cases to Combat Counterfeiting on Online Marketplaces By Coby Nixon While Amazon's increased efforts to stop counterfeiting are certainly welcome, the problem continues to persist. One increasingly popular...
May 24, 2023 Modularization a/k/a “Supersizing Construction” is Slowly Expanding into the US Housing Market! By Jeffrey Nix “Supersizing” construction components reflects a variety of concepts including “modularization”, “prefabrication”,...
May 23, 2023 Are College Athletes Employees? By Peter Spanos The Los Angeles Regional Office of the NLRB has issued a complaint against the University of Southern California, the NCAA and the PAC-12...
May 23, 2023 EU Will Regulate AI By Mitzi Hill The EU in mid-May began its effort to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) for several reasons, including privacy, ethical application,...
May 22, 2023 Profits Interest Safe Harbor Gets Tested and Lessons to be Learned by Operating Agreement Drafters By Harry Teichman The US Tax Court (USTC) issued a Memorandum opinion (ES NPA Holding, LLC vs. CIR, T.C. Memo 2023-55) finding that the taxpayer (ES NPA...
May 22, 2023 New Study About Disclosure of Child Abuse By Debbie Ausburn Researchers recently published an interesting longitudinal study of disclosures of child sexual abuse (CSA). They reviewed records of...
May 20, 2023 More Young People Opting Out of College By Debbie Ausburn Recent news stories fret about the deep drop in college enrollment over the past few years. Even after the pandemic and the resumption of...
May 18, 2023 FTC and Meta Escalate Privacy Skirmishes By Mitzi Hill The FTC and other regulators have long had Meta (owner of Facebook and Instagram, among others) in their sights for privacy reasons. In...
May 17, 2023 Retired Federal Circuit Judge Predicts "Imminent" Congressional Action to Address Patent Ineligibility Plague By Michael Cicero On May 15, 2023, despite recommendations from the U.S. Solicitor General for the Supreme Court to grant petitions to review two cases...