Venture Capital & Emerging Growth Companies August 2020 Highlights
Our globally renowned Venture Capital & Emerging Growth Companies team empowers clients throughout the development cycle—from ideation to creation, capitalization, implementation, commercialization, and monetization. Helping our clients overcome obstacles The SEC has announced the adoption Continue Reading
Finding Coronavirus Coverage under the Property Insurance Policy
Could a lack of insurance coverage push a company into bankruptcy? Of course. The remains of the once financially powerful manufacturers, distributors and suppliers of products containing asbestos, that lacked coverage, make that very clear. Today, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Continue Reading
Managing New Brand Opportunities in a Post-Pandemic World
The COVID-19 crisis has forever changed the way we shop and communicate. After six months of staying at home, consumers have grown accustomed to shopping online, home delivery, and curbside pickup, and we all now communicate through social media and virtual video meetings more than ever. This is the Continue Reading
The Perils of Section 889 Part B Execution: The DoD Waiver
How USPTO Examiner Type Affects Patents: Part 4
Patent procurement at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is affected by the type of examiner. We gathered data from the LexisNexis PatentAdvisor database for each year from 2009 to 2019, for examiners in each of eight nondesign Tech Centers at the USPTO from the LexisNexis Continue Reading
Taxpayers That Paid the Net Investment Income Tax or the Additional Medicare Tax Should Consider Filing Protective Claims for Refund
Individuals, estates, and trusts that paid significant amounts of the 3.8% net investment income tax or the 0.9% additional Medicare tax in 2016 or later years should consider filing protective claims for refund of those taxes that may become available subject to the outcome of litigation pending Continue Reading
Under Merger Agreement, “All Amounts Outstanding” Did Not Include Debt Forgiveness
The Delaware Court of Chancery—in RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing Corporation, et al. v. Freedom Mortgage Corporation, et al. 07/22/2020, CA No. 2020-0161-SG—addressed a situation whereby the parties’ dispute ultimately boiled down to 11 words in Section 7.02(f) of the parties’ merger agreement: “and Continue Reading
Majority Shareholders Must Adhere to MFW Process or Risk the Benefit of the Business Judgment Rule
In HomeFed Corp. S’Holder Litig., C.A. No. 2019-0592-AGB (Del. Ch. July 13, 2020), Bouchard, C., the Delaware Court of Chancery denied the defendants’ bid to dismiss shareholders’ claims for breach of fiduciary duties, which arose out of a majority shareholder’s purchase of the remaining shares of Continue Reading
Like, Comment, Share, and Protect the Copyright of Digital Content
Do you produce and share content through social media or a blog? You may be surprised to know that, until now, little copyright protection was available under U.S. law for digital works. Especially considering the ability to release content frequently through online channels, current copyright law Continue Reading