Whistleblowers may take heed of a February 2017 jury award to a General Counsel, who had been in his position for 25 years, of $3 million in back wages (which is doubled under the Dodd-Frank Act) and $5 million in punitive damages, for a total of nearly $11 million. The case pitted Sanford Wadler against Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc.,… Read more »
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Trademark Name and Logo Re-Registration in the United Kingdom
Commentators are suggesting that it is not clear whether a “Brexit”, meaning a U.K. exit from the European Union as approved in the recent U.K. referendum, will have an effect on recognition of the E.U. patent and trademark regimes. E.U. countries have a dual registration regime, so that it is possible to register at the E.U. and national… Read more »