17 Apr, 2024 Deciphering the Standards Available to Evaluate the Sale of Goods and Services? By Jeffrey Nix Two private organizations are at the center of developing standards used to evaluate the quality of materials and services sold and...
10 Apr, 2024 George Eastman's Patent for the Kodak Camera By Taylor English In 1881, George Eastman, a former bank clerk from Rochester, New York, who grew fascinated with photography, formed the Eastman Dry Plate...
21 Feb, 2024 FTC Rite Aid Order Sets de facto Baseline for AI Facial Recognition Best Practices By Mitzi Hill In late 2023, the FTC fined drug store chain Rite Aid for its use of AI-powered facial recognition software in preventing shoplifting....
18 Jan, 2024 New Jersey Passes Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Law -- Bill Heads to Governor By Mitzi Hill If signed by the state governor, a newly passed bill in New Jersey will add the state to the ranks of those with a comprehensive consumer...
11 Jan, 2024 New App Lets Consumers Universally Opt Out of Marketing/Data Sales By Mitzi Hill The recent wave of consumer privacy legislation has created a number of compliance headaches for covered companies, but it also carries...
13 Dec, 2023 Does the UCC or Common Law Govern Your Contract? By Jeffrey Nix Most every purchase and sale of “goods” or “services” is governed by either the Uniform Commercial Code, (UCC) or common law of contracts...
27 Nov, 2023 Join Lauren Einhorn at MJBizCon 2023 in Las Vegas By Lauren Einhorn Please join me next week from November 28 - December 1, in Las Vegas as I look forward to connecting with familiar faces and friends and...
16 Nov, 2023 Should my business accept Digital IDs for retail alcohol/tobacco sales? By Riviere Duffy We all want to be progressive and keep our customers happy. With technological advances that seem to be occurring daily, customers are...
27 Sep, 2023 How Wastewater Treatment Plants are Used to Monitor Public Health? By Jeffrey Nix There are more than 16,000 wastewater treatment plants or WWTP’s in the US treating wastewater generated by more than 75% of the...
14 Sep, 2023 More Website Session-Replay "Wiretapping" Claims Struck Down By Mitzi Hill A federal court has rejected two wiretapping claims based on the use of session-replay technology, which is a common internet tool used...
24 Aug, 2023 Join Lauren Einhorn at ICSC Florida in Orlando By Lauren Einhorn Please join Lauren Einhorn at ICSC Florida from August 27 - 29. This is the biggest Florida event of the year for the Marketplaces...
08 Aug, 2023 Starbucks Trade Secret Case Decision Serves Up Timely Reminder About Statutes of Limitation By Michael Cicero In a July 26 decision, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington dismissed a highly-publicized trade secret...