This article addresses the various mechanisms by which an inventor can change their patent application after it is filed with the USPTO. It reviews the appropriate uses of each way of changing a patent application and highlights the various...
This article reviews the federal rules surrounding deferred compensation paid to either employees or independent contractors. It highlights the distinction in the Tax Code between qualified and nonqualified deferred compensation plans and...
One of the legal responses in the wake of the financial crisis was to mandate that the SEC provide awards to individuals who report violations of the federal securities laws at their companies. This article examines how Dodd-Frank mandated this...
When trying to determine the form of incorporation for your business as well as how you want it to be taxed, you will ideally consider the costs and benefits of the various options. This article adds to this consideration by pointing to a...
This article highlights several prominent news stories with some kind of nexus to legal topics relevant to startups. News stories profiled in this article include evidence of continued growth in CEO pay packages, hiring trends in the U.S....
This article highlights several prominent news stories with some kind of nexus to legal topics relevant to startups. News stories profiled in this article include a notice by the SEC that crowdfunding is not yet legal, Google's answer to...
One of the many changes to corporate governance in the wake of the financial crisis was to give public company shareholders a (non-binding) "say-on-pay" vote, which would allow them to periodically vote for or against a company's executives'...
This article highlights several prominent news stories with some kind of nexus to legal topics relevant to startups. News stories profiled in this article focus heavily on securities matters and corporate finance, such as the structure...
Boards of directors owe fiduciary duties of care and loyalty to common stockholders. Of course, many investors in startups take preferred stock, not common, which makes the question posed by this article especially acute in the startup...
This article represents the final entry in a series exploring and explaining important provisions in financing term sheets by briefly detailing a grab-bag of provisions commonly found in such documents. Provisions so reviewed in this article...