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A Supreme Court case involving the Video Privacy Protection Act likely won’t resolve increasingly fractured VPPA rulings among circuits. The outcome of litigation can hinge on choices about venue selection and data architecture.

Trademark review too often gets treated as one question: Can this graphic go on the shirt? US trademark law makes it two, and conflating those issues can lead to trouble. Brands that want registration should build trademark use into the product from the very beginning.

Well-designed feedback programs are more than instruments for measuring performance; they’re platforms for exploring what comes next. They allow firms to test assumptions, probe emerging priorities, and understand how clients interpret changes happening within their industries.

Forty years after its creation, the Form I-9 verification process had done little to deter unlawful employment but has given unscrupulous employers more leverage over workers while burdening workers and businesses.

A Houston-based patent attorney faced a tough Federal Circuit bench while seeking to wipe out a $207,000 sanction against him and his client based on findings of litigation misconduct.

Pro se litigants are seeking out help from artificial intelligence tools, leaving courts to parse appropriate actions when misinformation makes it into filings.

A Supreme Court case involving the Video Privacy Protection Act likely won’t resolve increasingly fractured VPPA rulings among circuits. The outcome of litigation can hinge on choices about venue selection and data architecture.

Forty years after its creation, the Form I-9 verification process had done little to deter unlawful employment but has given unscrupulous employers more leverage over workers while burdening workers and businesses.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI sued Colorado to block a new state law requiring tech companies to establish safeguards to prevent discrimination by autonomous tools in certain employment decisions, among others.

Apple Inc. is closing its retail store in Towson, Maryland — a location that drew national attention in recent years as the center of a rare unionization effort by the iPhone maker’s employees.

The top US trade official said restrictions on foreign technology will likely keep Chinese carmakers out of the US for the foreseeable future, throwing cold water on the prospect of those manufacturers establishing a foothold in the domestic auto market.

Late last month, Blackstone Inc. announced the first inbound Gulf private equity deal since Iran started attacking Middle Eastern hubs, while Citigroup Inc.’s top boss fired off a 600-word memo underlining the bank’s enthusiasm for its business in the region.

Foreign residents in Australia would face higher taxes on sales of large assets under a bill expanding the capital gains tax base for overseas investors, the government said Friday.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to visit India in May as New Delhi and Washington seek to reset ties strained by US tariff policies.

Presidential budget requests are rarely to be taken seriously. Congress typically ignores them and grinds out changes in spending and taxes according to its own priorities, in its own good time. Yet even by this standard, the White House’s budget for the next fiscal year is disappointing. Rather than merely failing to solve the country’s rapidly worsening fiscal problems, it chooses to ignore them entirely while advocating an enormous increase in defense spending.

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UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s last remaining bear is standing by his call even as the stock heads toward its best week in seven months after a surprise hike in Medicare rates.

Foreign residents in Australia would face higher taxes on sales of large assets under a bill expanding the capital gains tax base for overseas investors, the government said Friday.

The escalating cost of wildfires now adds $41 to the average monthly power bill for residential customers of California’s largest utility, according to a government report that calls for a systemic overhaul of how the state responds to conflagrations as climate change-driven disasters threaten its economy.

Stefano Gabbana resigned as chairman of Dolce & Gabbana and is considering options for his stake in the Italian fashion company ahead of negotiations with its bank lenders.

UBS Group AG says it won’t hand over a stash of privileged documents for a probe into Credit Suisse’s handling of Nazi-linked accounts after failing to win assurances that doing so wouldn’t expose it to new financial claims.

Heavily indebted Japan should rethink outlays on programs aimed at helping women, the environment and foreigners, according to a summary of responses to an online government survey published Friday.