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By Jim Butler, Hotel Lawyer | Author of www.HotelLawBlog.com 17 April 2007 Hotel Lawyer with landmark labor and employment decision from the California Supreme Court on wage and hour issues. Wage and hour claims are serious matters for employers, because they typically involve class actions with lots of current (and former employees), and the claims can cover a long period of time. They are also particularly bad for the hospitality industry becasue so many employees are nominally "exempt" ...

... ), University of Maastricht: Conference on public health, innovation and intellectual property - 15 April, Maastricht (Netherlands): (IPR-Helpdesk), NLSIU Symposium: 'Challenges to India's patent ... manufacturer, Belstaff USA Corp, from using his name and likeness to promote products without their consent: (IPKat), Microsoft - Challenging patent validity: Microsoft asks ... but not false advertising claim: Trans USA Products, Inc v Howard Berger Company, Inc: (43(B)log), Tyco - Common law claims of ...

... Arbitration Panel 'Ignored' Law, Vacates $95,000 Damages Award to Employee Barclays Captial Inc. v. Shen NEW YORK COUNTY Criminal Practice Mere Possession of False ID Is ... Contested Issues Sunnyday Industries Enterprises Ltd. v. Omanja 5 Star Ice Cream Inc. NASSAU COUNTY Family Law Court Finds That Daughter's Disinclination To Visit Father Will ... on Fraud Claim Arising From Disputes Over Her Words on Greeting Cards B. Lewis Productions Inc. v. Angelou U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ...

... both cases have relatively unusual names) in a Westlaw (allfeds) search along with "product liability" (with an after 2006 date restriction for good measure) and seeing what the computer ... June 17, 2008) (product identification); Heck v. American Medical Systems, Inc., 2008 WL 1990710, at *3 (D. Md. April 30, 2008) (duty ... all this? First, the courts started applying the Twombly standard to dismiss "formulaicly" pleaded product liability litigation within weeks of the Supreme Court's decision. Like us ...

... both cases have relatively unusual names) in a Westlaw (allfeds) search along with "product liability" (with an after 2006 date restriction for good measure) and seeing what the computer ... June 17, 2008) (product identification); Heck v. American Medical Systems, Inc., 2008 WL 1990710, at *3 (D. Md. April 30, 2008) (duty ... all this? First, the courts started applying the Twombly standard to dismiss "formulaicly" pleaded product liability litigation within weeks of the Supreme Court's decision. Like us ...

... , March, and April 2006, penthousestore.com received an average of 85,000 visitors each month. Through penthousestore.com, GMCI sells nearly 20,000 products, including ... October 14, 2004, the defendants registered the domain name penthouseboutique.com through eNom, Inc., a domain name registrar. The defendants admit that the penthouseboutique.com domain name is not their ... to distinguish the domain name from the mark. See, e.g., Brookfield Commc'ns, Inc. v. West Coast Entm't Corp., 174 F.3d 1036, ...

... to death when her head got caught in between the metal bars of a defectively designed bassinet manufactured by Simplicity, Inc., of Reading, Pennslyvania. What struck my eye was the statement from Simplicity's successor, SFCA, Inc. Normal 0 ... :#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} - that it was not responsible for products previously manufactured by Simplicity since it had purchased only the assets of Simplicity at foreclosure last April, not the liabilities. Quoting (or misquoting) Wilkie Farr's Barry ...

... IP Australia: Employees' IP and the employment relationship - incentives to innovate - 23 April, Melbourne: (IP Down Under), Australia: Open access and research conference ... Inc; parties disagree on how extensively claims amended: (IP Law360), (IPBiz), US: Insmed continues fight for generic biologic approval: (GenericsWeb), Pharma & Biotech - Products ... trade mark infringement in North American Medical Corp v Axiom Worldwide Inc: (IPwar's), (ipblog.ca), Bilski - BIO files amicus brief in Bilski ...

... medical devices and drugs. However, this is a story about the way that the FDA seems to have overreacted in April 2007, when it ordered US Marshalls enter Shelhigh, Inc.'s New Jersey factory premises and seize every medical device ... the female patient underwent brain surgery in 2005 in which the reported device was used. It is alleged that due to imperfections in the product, the patient has suffered a severe brain infection that required additional hospitalization, medical bills and lost wages ...

... over the FCC and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) with numerous hearings. Throughout March and April, the Committee held a total of seven hearings concerning media, broadband, spectrum management and wireless issues, and ... merger: deployment of broadband through more areas, increased competition for advanced pay television, improved wireless products, enhanced national security, and better disaster response and preparation. In its analysis of competitive effects of ...