Weekly Roundup is a McNair Center series compiling and summarizing the week’s most important Entrepreneurship and Innovation news. Here is what you need to know about innovation this week: Microsoft Puts Slack in Cross Hairs with New Office Chat App Nick… Continue Reading
Weekly Roundup is a McNair Center series compiling and summarizing the week’s most important Innovation and Entrepreneurship news. Here is what you need to know about entrepreneurship this week: Clocking In: Small Business and Overtime Regulation Catherine Kirby, Research Assistant,… Continue Reading
Clocking in: Small Business and Overtime Regulation What is the New Overtime Regulation? On December 1, 2016, the Labor Department will officially institute new regulations on overtime eligibility for workers. Announced on May 17, the new rules require business owners to… Continue Reading
FTC Takes an In-Depth Look at Patent Assertion Entities; Three angles to look at Google’s Pixel phone: design patents, antitrust, copyright; What’s New with the Changes to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Rules of Practice; Lex Machina releases data on design patent litigation showing strong correlation with trademark infringement actions; and Self-driving car startup cancels first product because dealing with regulators and lawyers “isn’t worth it”. Continue Reading
Weekly Roundup is a McNair Center series compiling and summarizing the week’s most important Innovation and Entrepreneurship news. Here is what you need to know about entrepreneurship this week: Big Problems for Small Practices Catherine Kirby, Research Assistant, McNair Center… Continue Reading
Understood in its regional context, it is clear that Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s policy is a continuation rather than a departure from Southeast Asian drug policy, suggesting that for many Filipinos, this latest drug war may not seem unusual and may even be welcome as a necessary step to tackle drug use in the country. Continue Reading
This presidential election cycle has seen a storm of controversies and campaign promises from both major party candidates. While science and technology (S&T) policy is unlikely to make headlines in the two weeks leading up to the election, it is… Continue Reading