1st Circuit Denies Covidien Post-Trial Request to Assign Invention Rights of Employee
4 hours ago The First Circuit ruled Thursday that a district court did not abuse its discretion in denying health care products company Covidien LP the rights to inventions by a former employee who breached proprietary information.
A jury found that former Covidien employee Brady Esch breached confidential information after he incorporated a new company, which would develop products to treat varicose veins, after he was terminated from his Covidien position, where he also worked to develop similar products and devices. Covidien moved for a post-trial declaratory judgment that Esch be required to assign the rights to his patented inventions that he made at his new company. The District of Massachusetts struck down Covidien’s request, bringing it to the First Circuit.
Mar. 12—LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued a directive Friday that will allow executive branch agencies to continue reaching separation agreements with departing employees, including certain confidentiality provisions, amid widespread criticism. Under the new directive, a state department can seek a severance deal with a non-disclosure clause if it maintains "confidentiality regarding an .
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Joyce Cullen to the board of the Independent Monitoring Authority as member with knowledge of the relevant matters in Scotland.
[December 28, 2020]
Help for Divorce introduces DIY solution for separating couples in Ontario
TORONTO, Dec. 28, 2020 /CNW/ - The strain of COVID-19 has taken its toll on married couples in Ontario, many of whom are separating and seeking divorce. According to the National Law Review, Asia, the United Kingdom and the United States have seen a 34% increase in divorce due to COVID-19 and based on the National Law Review Canada is expected to mirror that number within 6 â 8 weeks. Â
This was taken from Global News interview that I was a part of on October 29, 2020
To meet the increasing demand of couples seeking a separation, Toronto-based divorce services provider Positive Solutions launched an online DIY option for couples to divorce amicably, affordably and quickly.Â
are told by nbc universal very typical separation agreements and that they were not to be that these people were not being bound not to tell stories of sexual harassment. farrow also makes allegations about the way nbc executives handled the harvey weinstein story, ronan worked here he when he was working on that story, ultimately he left and told that story with another news organization. what is nbc s response? so look, it is important to point out that this book, the very large majority of it, is about what happened. and it would be impossible in the time that we have to adjudicate all elements of it. but i m going to highlight a couple of them and one of them is the allegation made by farrow that the company, quote, spiked this story because weinstein was threatening to reveal allegations through the national enquirer about matt lauer. that on top of phone calls and emails personally from harvey