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Employment Law Issues to Consider Before Including Work Made for Hire Clauses in Contractor Agreements

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/04/21

For most employers, it is important to own the intellectual property rights in written and/or graphic work commissioned from independent contractors.

Uzbekistan revamps the Law on Regulatory Legal Acts

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/04/21

The President of Uzbekistan signed a new amended Law on Regulatory Legal Acts (Law), which entered into force on April 20, 2021. The Law has revamped the procedure for drafting and adopting regulatory legal acts (legal acts) by making it more transparent and streamlined....

Dear Littler: What are the Wage and Hour Issues with our Wandering Workers?

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/04/21

Dear Littler:  We’re a small company based in Austin, Texas – but we’re growing.  We made it through the pandemic, and we’re all looking forward to getting back to work.  We recently announced that employees can return to the Austin office voluntarily, starting in August. ...

SEC Charges Eight Companies for Failure to Disclose Complete Information on Form NT

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/04/21

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged eight companies for failing to disclose in SEC Form 12b-25 filings, commonly known as Form NT, that their request for seeking a delayed quarterly or annual reporting filing was caused by an anticipated restatement or correction of prior financial rep

Florida Finally Enacts Sales Tax Economic Nexus Legislation

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/04/21

After several years of failed bills, Florida has finally joined the other 43 states that have passed economic nexus threshold for sales and use tax purposes in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc....

Costa Rica: Extension of the deadline to comply with the 2021 Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) Registry

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/04/21

The deadline for filing the UBO 2021 was extended another month, as per the publication of April 29, 2021, on the Official Gazette. Originally, the deadline to comply with this obligation was on April 30, 2021, and the new deadline for filing is May 31, 2021....

Virginia Tech MAAP Releases New Report on Public Perception on Drone Delivery

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/04/21

Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership (MAAP), a federally-designated drone test site, and Lee Vinsel, an assistant professor of science, technology, and society in Virginia Tech’s College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, released a new report this week about what the public really th

PAC Rejects Public Body’s Limitation on Criticism of Public Officials Absent Actual Disruption

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/04/21

In a recent decision, the Public Access Counselor (PAC)—the division of the Attorney General that reviews appeals regarding the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Open Meetings Act (OMA)—found that a city council violated the OMA by muting community members during public comment. ...

Updates to Price Gouging States of Emergency

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/04/21

Over a year ago, states of emergency were declared across the country. Such emergency declarations are often the trigger for state pricing restrictions. Tracking the start and end of the emergency declarations is essential for interpreting the pricing restrictions they impose.

Patent Owner Tip #3 for Surviving An Instituted IPR: How Patent Owner Experts Go from Zero to Hero

By EsqSocial Corporation 30/04/21

Drafting the expert declaration is another critical task for Patent Owners during the inter partes review (“IPR”) discovery period. As noted in our previous post, IPR expert witnesses provide declarations as affirmative testimony in lieu of live testimony before the Board at the hearing.

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