U.S. lawmakers are exploring potential visa programs that would pair skilled workers with communities in need of economic development in response to a growing gap between local markets and sustainable worker populations.

Owners want their brand everywhere, but Peloton Interactive Inc.'s bid to cancel “spinning” trademarks reminds companies they must manage threats of a certain kind of pervasiveness—a mark that ends up defining a product, not its producer.

A U.S. Supreme Court case over Illumina Inc.’s fetal DNA test patents gives the justices a chance to solidify a road map for how biotech companies can protect their diagnostic inventions.

California’s latest privacy law will require companies to establish data retention schedules, renegotiate agreements with third-party vendors, and create new procedures for managing sensitive personal information.

Lawyers are great at asking questions, but how are they at answering them? Bloomberg Law is talking with lawyers and other legal industry players at the top of their fields to find out what makes them tick, what challenges they face, and how they do what they do.

The SEC plans to take a hard look at how public companies apply 2010 agency guidance that emphasized the importance of disclosing how climate change impacts their bottom lines.