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Patent protection and trade secret protection are alternative methods used to secure and enforce intellectual property rights. While neither method grants affirmative rights to practice an invention, both allow the holder to exclude others from doing so and may open the door to courtroom enforcement.

Two jury verdicts handed down within 24 hours of each other last month may represent the most significant development yet in social media liability litigation — but not for the reasons most coverage suggests.

Family offices have traditionally gravitated toward real estate, private equity, and public markets. 

Throughout this decade, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has repeatedly changed the criteria for determining whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), going back and forth with tests that are more favorable to classification as an employee or an independent contractor.