There has been a recent wave of false marking cases brought under section 292 of the Patent Act, which allows individuals to sue companies for marking unpatented articles with an intent to deceive the public.

Social media is here to stay. You've heard the statistics: If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world, approaching 600 million users. Twitter users post 90 million "tweets" per day.

As reported in benefits alerts on February 17 and March 31, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) created a premium subsidy for "assistance eligible individuals" continuing employer-provided health care benefits under COBRA or comparable state and governmental continuation coverage requirements.

Medical device manufacturers scored a major victory against product liability lawsuits as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Riegel v. Medtronic.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act required the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a temporary $5 billion reinsurance program to reimburse employment-based group health plans for certain claims incurred by early retirees.

Pan-European pension plans are a popular topic of discussion for many multinational companies today.

President Barack Obama signed on January 29, 2009, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, which reverses the Supreme Court decision in “Ledbetter vs. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.”, 550 U.S. 608 (2007).

In a groundbreaking decision, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held on February 5, 2008, that it had subject matter jurisdiction and permitted a foreign employee working overseas for a U.S. company to sue her employers in the United States as a whistleblower under Title VIII of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

As health officials around the globe confront the outbreak of the H1N1 virus (previously referred to as swine flu), employers are faced with questions about what measures they should take to protect their employees and their organizations when presented with a contagious disease.

In 2006, we reported on the 2005 reform of the German competition and antitrust law to bring it closer in line with the corresponding EU legislation. We believe an update at this time is appropriate.

Health care reform has ushered in sweeping changes for employers and group health plans. Although many provisions will not take effect until 2014 or later, a number of provisions take effect this year and in 2011.

Congress adopted on July 26 major changes in the housing tax credit program as part of the Housing and Recovery Act of 2008. The President signed the bill on July 30, 2008 (the "Effective Date").

The Securities and Exchange Commission held an open meeting on December 16, 2009 at which it adopted changes to the proxy disclosure rules applicable to public companies' compensation and governance activities.

On January 30, 2009, President Barack Obama issued Executive Order 13496. The Order stated that the government would require federal contractors to post notices in the workplace notifying employees of their "rights" under the National Labor Relations Act (the Act).

The U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) recently proposed to raise the exemption threshold for Form BE-605 reporting from the current $30 million to $60 million, which, if implemented, would qualify more businesses for exemptions and significantly reduce the filing burden of these businesses.

How will a company layoff affect foreign national employees? The answer, of course, is that it depends.

Several important developments in Colorado tax law have already occurred in 2010. From new information-reporting requirements to the loss of deductions and exemptions, these changes have wide-reaching implications for both Colorado businesses and out-of-state businesses making sales to customers in the state.

Producer-to-retail price margins was the topic of the final workshop hosted jointly by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on December 8 in Washington, D.C.

The president signed into law on May 20 the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009, S. 386, (FERA).