The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to implement provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to make prescription drugs more affordable. Here are the significant changes to Medicare Part D for 2025 that you need to know about. Overview of 2025 Part D Redesign On April 1, 2024, CMS released the final … Read more
By Greg Care In this blog, we’ll be reviewing the status of the litigation challenging the validity of the FTC’s rule prohibiting nearly all non-competes. There have been some interesting developments that affect whether the rule will ever be enforced. To recap, in April 2024, the FTC issued a regulation that, except in limited circumstances, … Read more
Earlier this year, the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) issued an order (Cass., ord. no.11413/2024) in a case concerning the protection by copyright of a lamp design. Part I of this post outlined the decisions issued as the case made its way through the Italian court system. Part II will now turn to the … Read more
With an order (Cass., ord. no.11413/2024) that suprisingly triggered little attention, at the end of last April the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) proffered yet once more its original approach and reading of the principles inspiring the EU copyright harmonization – and particularly of those developed by the CJEU case law. This time, … Read more
Image via flickr Introduction This two-part blog post is aiming to explain what Rights Retention is and how it works in practice. In the first part, I’ll explain the forces at play in the publishing industry, why copyright ownership in academia is so important and how the publishing process works. These are technicalities that must … Read more
