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25 Apr 2018, Speaking Engagement, Boston, United States
TiE Boston and Babson College join Boston Blockchain Week (April 23 - 27) - the largest gathering of blockchain founders, developers, and funders in Boston/Cambridge.
Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are funding exciting startups and presenting new opportunities for investors to get a piece of the action while also creating a new funding vehicle that is changing founder/investor dynamics.
The energy storage market has taken off in the Northeast. In late 2017, Massachusetts announced $20 million in grants for 26 projects through the Baker-Polito Administration’s Advancing Commonwealth Energy Storage program, while New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently committed to deploy 1,500 megawatts of storage by 2025. With storage finally here, communities and consumers are looking to marry solar with storage as a solution to reducing electricity costs, increasing grid resiliency and better-utilizing energy resources. Numerous Northeast Clean Energy Council (NECEC) members are leading in this space in Massachusetts, New York and other states that have jump-started their energy storage markets.
What does the generalist in-house counsel need to know about protecting designs? Designs occupy a unique space in intellectual property. In the U.S., designs are protected under the patent laws, while in Europe, designs are typically protected under industrial design law. Overlapping protection for designs also exists in the U.S. and Europe through copyright law and through trademark law as it applies to trade dress.
Foley Hoag LLP will present a 60-minute webinar on Wednesday, May 9 at 12:30 pm EDT offering guidance for in-house counsel regarding the basics of design protection from U.S. and European perspectives, as well as strategies for protecting designs effectively and economically.
A climate change lawsuit involving constitutional "issues of first impression" recently achieved a small victory as it pursues a court order directing the U.S. federal government to take actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In direct contradiction to the court's opinion in The People of the State of California v. BP P.L.C. a month earlier, a different court in the Northern District of California remanded three...
Last week, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear an important water rights case involving whether water can be transferred from one water body without a permit...
A minor provision concerning deductibility in Public Law 115-97, commonly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Act), may have significant impacts on administrative and judicial settlements between companies ...
Two recent developments have the potential to significantly impact governmental enforcement actions under the CERCLA, or Superfund, the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act, among other environmental programs.
A recent ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers California, Oregon and several other western states, potentially extends Clean Water Act (CWA) ...
Shooting Fish In A Barrel: EPA Loses Another Regulatory Delay Case (Video)
