The long-awaited decision of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Browning-Ferris Industries of California set forth new guidelines under which a company could be determined to be a joint employer so that it would be subject to collective bargaining.
A Bridgeport, CT, restaurant's use of a logo with the letters BBQ against a flame backdrop has an out-of-state restaurant chain fired up.
On June 12, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in Ariosa Diagnostics, affirmed a grant of summary judgment of invalidity of another patent in the biotech space. The decision adds to a long and growing list of patents that have fallen in the wake of the Supreme Court's recent 35 U.S.C. '101 jurisprudence.
Summary Judgment for Domino's in Death of Franchisee's Employee: Will It Last?
Franchisor That Sleeps on Its Rights May Not Be Able to Enforce Them
Colleges can't be required to let star athletes cash in on their celebrity status, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled on Sept. 30, reversing part of a landmark antitrust decision that had called into question the NCAA's entire business model.
Federal Circuit: In An IPR Proceeding, The Burden Lies With The Petitioner To Show 'Substantial Evidence' That The Prior Art Patent Is Entitled To The Priority Date Of Its Provisional Application
Federal Circuit: Scope Of Reexamination Claims Is Reviewed De Novo
The Future of the Music Business 4th Edition, by Steve Gordon.
This summer, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decided Glatt v. Fox Searchlight Pictures, an important decision concerning whether Fox's unpaid interns were "employees" under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and the New York Labor Law and, therefore, entitled to recover minimum wage, plus time-and-a-half for overtime, for the periods they worked at Fox.
Consumer Suit Over Beats Music App Sent to Arbitration
No Right of Publicity Claim for Company, But Individual with Same Name as Company Can Proceed
"Procure Employment" Clause in California Talent Agencies Act Survives "Vagueness" Challenge
Lex Machina, a legal analytics company that grew out of a project run by Stanford University's law school and its computer science department, has published a 37-page "copyright litigation report" developed from litigation data and court decisions covering thousands of copyright cases filed in U.S. district courts over the past five years. The report analyzes key filings, findings, judgment types, decisions, resolutions, damages and other data.
