The Law of Indemnification and Its Interplay with Liability Insurance
Sheri Pastor and Joann Lytle co-author chapter in The Law of Indemnification and Its Interplay with Liability Insurance: A Fifty-State Survey in the ABA Section of Litigation Fifty-State Survey. Indemnity is compensation given to make another whole from a loss already sustained. It generally Continue Reading
Cybersecurity—The Times (and Standards) They Are a Changin’—FAST!
Wage and Hour Laws: New Jersey
McCarter partner Adam Saravay authors Thomson Reuters Practical Law article, Wage and Hour Laws: New Jersey. He provides a Q&A guide to state-specific wage and hour laws for private employers in New Jersey, addressing minimum wage, overtime, exemption, and litigation questions Continue Reading
NJ Enhances the Angel Tax Credit Incentive
The NJEDA has recommended a major enhancement to its Angel Investor Tax Credit Incentive program to stimulate and incent technology company entrepreneurs to establish and grow their companies in New Jersey as well as investors to support them. Governor Phil Murphy recently signed Assembly Bill Continue Reading
Venture Capital & Emerging Growth Companies Activities—July 2019
McCarter is proud to kick off summer 2019 with exciting firm news: NJBIZ has named Joe Boccassini, Susan Feeney, Scott Kobler, and Dave Sorin to its Law Power 50 list for delivering outstanding results for clients in New Jersey. You can also tune in to the Growth Igniters Radio podcast to hear Dave Continue Reading
Foreign Trademark Applicants Now Need US Attorneys, Says Trademark Office
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has announced that all foreign trademark applicants and registrants and all parties to Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings must be represented by a U.S.-licensed attorney. The new rule applies to any party filing in the Trademark Office or Continue Reading
NLRB Expands Employer Rights to Limit Activities of Non-Employee Union Organizers
Since 1982, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) has interpreted the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) to prohibit employers from denying non-employee union organizers access to those parts of the employer’s private property that are generally open to the public, such as Continue Reading
“F” Word Doesn’t Faze Supreme Court—Supreme Court Says USPTO Cannot Refuse to Grant Trademarks Merely Because They Contain Expletives
George Carlin famously observed that there are seven words you can’t say on TV. Erik Brunetti didn’t get the message and thus sought to register a trademark for a line of clothing called “FUCT.” The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office refused to register the mark on the grounds that this obvious Continue Reading