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New Jersey Life Science Cluster - Where International Biotech Innovations Are Brought To Market - Part III
Other Considerations - Venture Capital Another consideration of a foreign innovative enterprise collaborating with a U.S. enterprise is that the foreign enterprise will then have more effective access to the better developed U.S. venture capital ("VC") industry. To be able to attract venture...
Read MoreThe Intersection Of Bankruptcy Law And Health Care Regulation
The recent Chapter 11 filings by several New York City hospitals is reason to revisit the inter-relationship of state health care regulation and the federal Bankruptcy Code. An inherent tension exists between the two by virtue of the fundamental differences in their goals and purposes. States...
Read MoreNew Jersey Life Science Cluster Where International Biotech Innovations Are Brought To Market
Legal Structure; LLCs Are Not Always Transparent Advice in structuring life science collaboration entities must incorporate advice as to the tax regimen of the jurisdiction of the foreign equity owners. For example, the broad acceptance in the United States of LLCs as a tax transparent...
Read MoreLeave Policy That Treats Pregnancy The Same As Other Temporary Disabilities Is Not Discriminatory
In Gerety v. Atlantic City Hilton, a 4-3 majority of the New Jersey Supreme Court recently found in a case of first impression that an employer does not discriminate against pregnant women by treating pregnancy the same as other temporary disabilities under the terms of its disability leave policy...
Read MoreInternational Law & Trade - Law Firms New Jersey Life Science Cluster here International Biotech Innovations Are Brought To Market
Our region, measured by the five hour train ride from Boston to Washington, D.C., with its center located here in New Jersey remains the largest, most effective life science cluster in the world. While New Jersey's "Garden State" moniker harkens back to when the State's economy was primarily...
Read MoreIssues & Overview The U.S. Technology Sector Is Alive And Well
What's all this talk about Moore's Law? As lawyers and businesspeople, we think we have enough laws and just don't need any Moore. Seriously, if technology development keeps up its rapid pace, we will not only be extending our lives indefinitely, we won't even have to be biologically born to live...
Read MoreTechnology - Law Firms The Most Counterintuitive Legal Principle - The "Work Made For Hire" Doctrine!
It is natural to believe that if you pay to have a work such as software, a website or even a statue created, you own all the rights in that work. This well-formed belief, however, may be wrong. Consider the following scenarios: Constrained by a tight budget, Newco, a young corporation, opts to...
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