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It's been said that every lawyer who drafts a set of loan documents is a great lawyer-until that deal goes into default. Not until that point does everyone involved begin to pay close attention to what such documents really say.
A recent Court of Appeal decision has illustrated the value of determining the ownership of IP rights in software at the outset of a commercial relationship.
Trading Technologies’ patent dispute has brought the issue of protecting intellectual rights to the fore like never before. Paul Cozens looks at the risks behind not taking the right precautions.
With the State of Connecticut reeling from a series of massive security breaches that have exposed the personal information of hundreds of thousands of state residents, Connecticut's Governor and General Assembly joined forces in mid-June to make Connecticut only the second state (after Michigan) to mandate that private employers publish a policy on the protection of employee Social Security numbers (SSNs).
At a recent meeting of the EU Employment and Social Affairs
Council, agreement was finally reached after many years in
relation to the working time opt-out and definitions of on-call
time, as well as new proposals to extend employment protection
to temporary agency workers.
Last month, an appellate court ruling fueled an ongoing debate in healthcare: What is a hospital’s responsibility when responding to a reference check?