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Three Proposed USPTO Board Rules That Should Not Be Adopted

March 11, 2012 17:36

Please welcome Andrew Baluch as a new contributing author for PharmaPatentsBlog! There is a lot to like about the USPTO’s proposed rules for the new patent trial proceedings that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) will conduct under the America Invents Act (AIA). On the whole, the proposed...

The Sunset of the California Board of Registered Nursing

Fredrick Ray
January 05, 2012 05:13

On January 1, 2012, the California Board of Registered Nursing was dissolved by a sunset provision in its authorizing statute.  California licensing boards, by law, must be renewed by legislation periodically.  The California Board of Registered Nursing, or BRN, was to expire on January...

Update - New Rule Requires Employers to Post Notice of Employee NLRA Rights

Dennis Westlind
December 27, 2011 17:27

In order to allow more time for legal challenges to its notice-posting rule to be resolved, the National Labor Relations Board has again postponed the rule's effective date, this time to April 30, 2012.  Stay tuned. For additional information regarding the NLRB's new rule and posting...

Advice for General Counsel and Boards of Directors on Pay-to-Play Compliance

November 29, 2011 15:24

The Conference Board was kind enough to share the following link to portions of a webinar they hosted a few weeks back on best practices for corporate political spending. It is about 20 minutes long and focused on some of the issues those tasked with pay-to-play compliance lay awake worrying...

Breach of Fiduciary Duty

Ray Mullman
October 20, 2011 12:25

McKnight's Long Term Care News had an interesting article about a shady group of Pittsburgh nursing home owner/operators' lack of oversight for their now-defunct nonprofit facility. The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the owner/operators may be liable under the law for siphoning money...