The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released its annual Performance and Accountability Report on November 19, 2015, reporting record results in the agency’s enforcement efforts during fiscal year 2015. The report, which numbers over 100 pages, relates numerous instances of progress the EEOC made ...
At last night’s packed council meeting, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council voted 9-6 to increase the minimum wage in the city to $10.10 over the next three years. The ordinance provides that the minimum wage shall increase to $8.20 an hour on July 1, 2016, $9.15 an hour on July 1, 2017, and $10.10 an hour on July 1, 2018 ...
The Federal Circuit issued an important en banc ruling in August expanding what can constitute direct infringement of a method claim when one actor does not perform all of the elements of the claim at issue. See Akamai Technologies, Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc., 797 F.3d 1020 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 13, 2015) (“Akamai II” ...
I’ve deleted my fair share of late night or politically charged Facebook status updates (hopefully before too many of my “friends” saw them). Does anyone know if it is even appropriate to “like” a Facebook post conveying a bad day, adverse medical diagnosis or even worse, a death in the family? I’m still ...
Past performance is usually a decent indicator of future performance . . . but not always. Employees who were once excellent performers have periods of time when, for various reasons, their work product takes a dip. It happens to everyone. However, when a good employee admittedly violates numerous policies of the employer ...
Steve Hall, member of Wyatt's Intellectual Property Protection & Litigation Service Team, will be speaking at the Defense Research Institute's (DRI) Intellectual Property Seminar on the topic "Using the AIA’s First to File Rule and the Written Description Requirement to Invalidate Patents" on May 6, 2016 in Nashville. Mr. Hall's ...
By Will Gibbons
The so-called “SEC Primaries” on March 1, 2016 could have as much to do with deciding the Republican presidential nominee as the Southeastern Conference does with college football’s national championship. With that in mind, candidate Jeb Bush has toured the SEC this fall, and while he is undoubtedly watching great ...