Legal

• Recent tax law changes: Widespread effect on sales/use, income/franchise, and property taxes
  (July 15, 2009) ...
• Chinese patent law reform: Sharpening the Dragon's Teeth
  (July 2, 2009) As China has continued to grow as a major contender in the world economy, the Chinese have become more aware...
• The Best Protection: Trade Secret or Patent?
  (June 26, 2009) When determining how to protect intellectual property (IP), it can be difficult to decide between trade secrets and patents. To...
• Supreme Court to decide patent eligibility of processes
  (June 5, 2009) A pending U.S. Supreme Court decision could have broad impact on a wide range of technologies including business methods, software...
• Justices to weigh issue of patenting business methods
  (June 2, 2009) The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide what sorts of business methods might be patented, an issue with the...
• New rules would expand HIPAA regulations to outside professionals
  (May 27, 2009) Certain health information privacy provisions in the federal stimulus package amount to a “massive” expansion of HIPAA, or the Health...
• Visit an adult web site at work and go to jail
  (May 12, 2009) ...
• Emails are major legal discovery risk
  (May 12, 2009) An electronic content management association and researcher AIIM has released a report that found that a third of organizations have...
• GPS tracking by police okay says Wisconsin court
  (May 12, 2009) An appeals court ruled that Wisconsin police can attach GPS to cars to secretly track anybody's movements without obtaining search...
• Board ties at Apple and Google are scrutinized
  (May 5, 2009) ...