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Will NY’s BitLicense Stifle an Industry (or Just Relocate it)?

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/08/14

The New York Department of Financial Services riveted the attention of the virtual currency world (and just about everyone else involved with digital financial services), with its July 17 proposal to issue licenses for Virtual Currency Business...

Getting Around the Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Standard

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/08/14

Among the advantages to inter partes review proceedings, for petitioners, is the ability to have the limitations of subject patent claims evaluated pursuant to a “broadest reasonable interpretation” standard (“BRI”), instead of the Phillips standard...

Eugene Follows Portland’s Lead: Employers Required to Provide Paid Sick Leave

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/08/14

The Eugene City Council passed a sick leave ordinance this week that affects most employers engaged in business in the City of Eugene. The Eugene ordinance, which is scheduled to take effect July 1, 2015, requires that employers provide employees...

The Arbitration Obligations Imposed by the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/08/14

As we discussed recently in our blog post, “President Obama Issues Two Executive Orders in 10-Day Period,” last week President Obama issued the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order. Under this order, federal contractors will be required to...

FDA Issues Draft Guidance on 510(k)

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/08/14

The FDA issued a new draft guidance on July 15th which further explains how the FDA currently fails to protect consumers of medical devices and pharmaceutical drugs. It is important to remember that these sort of FDA-issued guidances are non-binding...

Task Order Protests: The Trek Toward Clarity On The Court of Federal Claims’ Jurisdiction

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/08/14

The United States Court of Federal Claims’ July 18, 2014 decision in Orbis Sibro, Inc. v. United States, represents one of the few straightforward decisions by the court in recent months relating to the court’s subject matter jurisdiction over...

Six Teams Submit SOQs for UC Merced 2020 P3 Project

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/08/14

The Regents of the University of California (the “Regents”), on behalf of the University of California, Merced (“UC Merced”), announced on August 1, 2014 that it received Statements of Qualifications (SOQs) from six teams in response to a Request for...

Skilled & Educated Immigrants Move to Germany

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/08/14

According to statistics issued by the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, Germany was only second to the United States in the number of skilled and educated immigrants it received in 2012....

Presidential Executive Order Seeks to Ban Federal Contractors with a History of Employment Law Violations

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/08/14

This week, the President signed an Executive Order designed to debar federal contractors (with contracts valued over $500,000) with a history of employment law violations from doing business with the federal government....

Abandon Random Acts of Interviewing — A Structured Process Is Worth the Effort

By EsqSocial Corporation 04/08/14

Law firms across the country once again are visiting law school campuses to interview students for much sought after summer associate or entry-level positions. A lot of time and effort will be devoted to this process, and yet, looking down the road a...

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