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Advance Notice By-Law 2.0
Advance notice by-laws are a long-standing, commonly accepted corporate governance tool in Canada.
National employer vaccine mandate – closer to reality?
United States | Publication | October 19, 2021
In September, President Joe Biden announced a mandate that businesses with more than 100 employees either require COVID vaccines or administer weekly tests. On October 12, federal OSHA submitted the initial text of an emergency vaccine rule to the Office of Management and Budget for review.
The rule will take effect once the OMB finishes its review and it is published in the Federal Register. The rule will then be ripe for courts to consider the numerous expected challenges to its constitutionality.
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More termination clause drama in Ontario
An Ontario court has delivered yet another unfortunate termination clause decision.
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Canada’s Advanced Examination for Green Technologies
With the suspension of the USPTO’s Climate Change Mitigation Pilot, the Canadian Advanced Examination for Green Technologies mechanism can be used to accelerate examination for a corresponding Canadian application, which can then generate a work product usable for expediting examination in various patent offices around the world using the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH), reducing the time from patent application filing to grant.
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