What you need to know Michigan lawmakers finalized and passed an amended paid sick leave bill just hours before the Earned Sick Time Act (ESTA) was set to take effect. HB 4002 – which took effect upon Governor Whitmer’s signature this afternoon – brings...
By Bryan Lemanski and Emily Dentinger No, it does not actually exist. This was a humbling revelation for sports fans and lay people everywhere, as the veil of intrigue was pulled back on the notorious yellow line. For those of us that discovered this reality...
By Erik Chmelar, PhD, PE 1. U.S. Export Control In recent years, the semiconductor industry has been at the forefront of rising geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China. As the U.S. broadens restrictions on exports of certain semiconductors and...
By Christopher M. Sims, research by Samuel Hall. In today’s legal profession, the preservation of client confidentiality extends beyond traditional ethical considerations to encompass the realm of cybersecurity. While the attorney-client privilege is a...
Effective February 21, 2025, Michigan employers will face significant changes under the new Earned Sick Time Act (ESTA), replacing key provisions of the Paid Medical Leave Act (PMLA). Current Law: Paid Medical Leave Act (PMLA) Overview Under current law,...
Overview The Corporate Transparency Act is now in effect. Under the Act, most corporations and LLCs operating in the U.S. are required to file a beneficial ownership information report with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network...
And here’s what you need to initially know about it. The European Union published the first-of-its-kind Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) on 12 July 2024, codifying a widespread regulatory mandate for artificial intelligence development and use. The EU Parliament...
The modern trend in the United States has been to restrict the power of employers to enter into noncompetition agreements with their employees. While some states, such as Massachusetts and California, have long imposed restrictions on these agreements, the federal...
California has historically maintained some of the strictest laws in the country regarding covenants not to compete. The California Business and Professions Code, Section 16600, provides that “every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful...
by Stacie Farina and Will Kehoe A design patent can be a valuable asset in a patent portfolio for protecting the “ornamental design for an article of manufacture,” namely the visual characteristics embodied in, or applied to, an article.[1] However, questions often...
Employers Required to Give Severance Agreements a Second Look Last week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) called into question years of common business practices with its recent decision, forcing employers to reevaluate their well-established practices and...
Young Basile, a member of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), is the only law firm to be a founding member of the consortium, which was tasked with growing the US quantum industry by the National Quantum Initiative Act (of 2018). Elliott Mason, a...
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) proposed sweeping changes to the rule defining unfair methods of competition that would upend decades of common business and employment practices. The proposed rule is a near complete ban on noncompete agreements between...
By Elliott Mason, PhD Published: The Quantum Consortium, October 1, 2021 My prior article looked at trends in quantum computing patents. This second installment focuses on patent trends for quantum communications over the past decade, 2011–2020. The data detail...
By Elliott Mason, PhD Published: The Quantum Consortium, May 24, 2021, This article presents global quantum computing patent trends over the past decade. The data details patents and patent applications reported by patent offices worldwide with publication dates since...
Young Basile’s international trademark experience and knowledge provides cost effective and complete trademark strategies for guiding clients through Brexit. The United Kingdom (UK) is officially separating from the European Union (EU) in what has been dubbed...
The COVID-19 virus is an unprecedented global crisis in our time. Policyholders are struggling with losses arising out of business closings, lost revenue, labor and employment issues and other potential losses they believe should be covered by their business...
STAY HOME ORDER EXTENDED AND EXPANDED On April 9, 2020, Governor Whitmer also extended and expanded the current Stay Home Order through April 30, 2020. The extended Stay Home Order (Executive Order 2020-42) prohibits all businesses and operations from requiring...
COVID-19 has had drastic effects on the marketplace causing the cancellation of major events as well as significant disruptions in supply chains. In this volatile economy, companies must be aware of their contractual obligations as well as what they may encounter from...
Emerging companies are often advised to build a patent portfolio. While this is sound advice, portfolios are sometimes built in a haphazard manner, without alignment to business strategy. The resulting patents are frequently too narrow or too hard to enforce and the...
