On March 4, the Securities and Exchange Commission published notice that The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (NASDAQ) had filed a proposed new rule that would require each NASDAQ-listed issuer to maintain an ...

Means-plus-function claiming has been disfavored (by and large) since at least 1994 when the Federal Circuit handed down its decision in In re Donaldson, where the Federal Circuit sitting en banc ...

On 5 June 2020, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its final guidelines on certain aspects of the recast Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) compliance ...

“Software modules are often specified in functional terms and the details of the underlying algorithms are left to implementation. While this level of description is generally enough to guide software ...

March 23, 2023 - The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is a historic investment, allocating $550 billion to build, repair, and improve our nation's roads, bridges, airports, railways, and ...

ESCs are self-renewing, fully pluripotent cells. Descendants from all three germ layers can be produced in vitro by allowing ESCs to differentiate as aggregates, known as embryoid bodies 1,2,3.

The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Aristocrat Technologies will require software patent drafters to take more care to describe algorithms covered by their software--or risk patent invalidity.

A key requirement for the function of regulatory T cells—immune cells that play a critical role in many biological processes, from suppressing inflammation and deadly autoimmunity to helping tumors ...

This paper discusses whether rationality, morality or prudence impose process-requirements upon us. It has been argued that process-requirements fulfil two essential functions within a system of ...

A district court held that Regs. Sec. 1.170A-9(c)(1) was invalid because the regulation impermissibly imposed the requirements that to qualify as an educational organization under Sec. 170(b)(1)(A)(ii ...