Apple just escaped a $533 million jury verdict by invalidating the plaintiff’s patents on the grounds that the patents cover abstract ideas. The case is Smartflash, LLC v. Apple Inc., decided by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals on March 1,...
A new type of phishing scam is circulating via email that's targeting schools and universities. The scammers' malicious game is likely to leave their victims beyond confused when they find out scammers did their taxes!
The US Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System announced that it was raising the asset threshold for bank mergers that it considers unlikely to pose systemic...... By: Shearman & Sterling LLP
This week President Trump released the Energy Independence Executive Order that focuses on the Trump Administration’s energy strategy. Although much focus is on lifting the restrictions on American energy and on job promotion, the Executive Order...
If your initial response to this question is, "What anti-harassment training? Are we still supposed to be doing that? Isn't that kind of 'old school'?", your first step needs to be planning anti-harassment training in 2017....
Allowing customers to use credit cards at your store certainly boosts sales -- it's easy for customers to use, and they may be willing to pay more if they're not counting each dollar out of their wallet. But that doesn't necessarily mean it boosts revenue.
The European and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON) has published correspondence between the European Parliament’s negotiating team for the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID“) II package of measures and Vice-President Valdis...
In our previous post entitled “EPA’s Budget was Cut How Much? Making Sense of the White House’s ‘Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again,’” we discussed the White House’s proposed fiscal year 2018 budget outline for the federal government,...
Should digital downloads, streaming services and online purchases from foreign entities be subject to goods and services tax (GST) in Singapore? How about off-premise cloud computing?... By: Dentons
