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McCarter & English, LLP Document Search Results (18) Show: results per page Sort by:  | The New U.S. JOBS Act - What's Immediately Useful for Canadian Companies?
Jonathan Guest; McCarter & English, LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 30, 2012, previously published on May 23, 2012 Given our countries' geographic proximity and a fair degree of common ground in our respective securities law, Canadian companies often seek to raise money from U.S. investors at the same time as they raise money in Canada. These cross-border offerings may be public or private in Canada, but the...
| | Release of New Industry Guidance: A Reason for Issuers to Revisit and Revise Pension Disclosures in Offering Documents
McCarter English LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 30, 2012, previously published on May 25, 2012 Last week, the National Association of Bond Lawyers ("NABL"), working collaboratively over 15 months and five drafts with issuers, underwriters, accountants, institutional investors, and other industry professionals, published its "Considerations in Preparing Disclosure in Official...
| | New NLRB Notice Posting Rule Delayed
McCarter English LLP;
Legal Alert/Article October 28, 2011, previously published on October 13, 2011 On August 25, 2011, the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") issued its Notice Posting Rule requiring employers subject to the National Labor Relations Act ("Act") to post notices informing their employees of their rights under the Act.
|  | Bankruptcy Court Holds: Affirmative Actions Taken By Mortgage Lender Exclude Rents from Bankruptcy Estate
McCarter English LLP;
Legal Alert/Article October 27, 2011, previously published on May 2011 In a decision that clarifies the rights of secured lenders to rents generated by a mortgaged property under New York law, a bankruptcy court in the Southern District of New York has held that rents which were assigned pre-petition pursuant to an assignment of rents executed in connection with a...
| | Patentability & The Non-Obviousness Requirement
Timothy P. Homlish; McCarter English LLP;
Legal Alert/Article October 27, 2011, previously published on May 27, 2011 An invention must be novel and non-obviousness over the prior art in order to be patentable. In brief, for an invention to be novel, it must be "new" in the sense that the exact invention is not in the prior art. For an invention to be non-obvious, the invention must go further than what...
| | Appeals Court Decides Important Life Sciences Case: Classen Immunotherapies, Inc. v. Biogen Idec, et al.
Erik Paul Belt, Jonathan M. Sparks; McCarter & English, LLP;
Legal Alert/Article October 27, 2011, previously published on September 6, 2011 On Wednesday, August 31, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an important decision in the life sciences realm regarding the patentability of immunotherapy treatment protocols and associated clinical studies. In Classen Immunotherapies, Inc. v. Biogen Idec, et al., Appeal No....
| | Patent Reform is Here. What Does it Mean For You?
McCarter English LLP;
Legal Alert/Article October 27, 2011, previously published on September 19, 2011 Patent reform, over six years in the making, has now become law. President Obama signed the America Invents Act on September 16, 2011. The new law will have immediate and important consequences for your patent filing and enforcement strategies. Although the new law ushers in many changes to...
| | Are Consumer Class Actions Dead?
Edward W. Little; McCarter & English, LLP;
Legal Alert/Article October 27, 2011, previously published on July 5, 2011 To increase your sales, you offer a free upgrade to everyone who buys a new car during Presidents' Day week - "Buy now, and receive a free portable GPS system." Several weeks later, however, your new customers cry foul when FTC rules prohibit "free" offers as part of your sales...
| | Changes Coming Soon to the CHRO
McCarter English LLP;
Legal Alert/Article October 27, 2011, previously published on September 7, 2011 Effective October 1, 2011, the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities ("CHRO") will implement changes to the procedures for processing complaints as required by Public Act No. 11-237. While certain changes may provide for early resolution of some complaints, for...
| | Delaware’s “Pro-Stockholder” Lambrecht Decision Actually Raises the Bar for Some Double Derivative Stockholders
William M. Moran; McCarter & English, LLP;
Legal Alert/Article October 27, 2011, previously published on May 2011 A shareholder’s standing to sue on behalf of a corporation may have gotten easier, thanks to a decision in August, 2010, by the Supreme Court of Delaware in which the Court clarified shareholder standing requirements in “doublederivative” suits. But as demonstrated in a recent...
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