5/3/2021· Intellectual Property
One-Stop-Shopping With Segmented Offerings Is Most Appealing For SEP Licensing In IoT Including 5G
By: Keith Mallinson
Patent pooling is increasingly attractive for licensing cellular technologies with emerging IoT including 5G because it can provide greater transparency, predictability, and various efficiencies such as lower transaction costs at scale in standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing with multiple dimensions and complexities including
4/21/2021· Aerosols - Aerosol Products
Aerosol Laboratory Safety – Eliminate Potential Ignition Sources
By: John Chadwick
While the attention to safety issues has dramatically improved over time, I am still amazed how often the simplest safety precautions are sometimes overlooked when filling aerosols sample with flammable propellants. I’ll save my horror stories for another article, except for one particularly relevant example.
4/20/2021· Insurance Coverage Analysis
The Dangers Of Absolute Exclusions, And Why Are Regulators Allowing Them?
The basis for many of the “absolute” exclusions is that the excluded exposure is supposed to be covered under other policies or not at all as to the insured’s conduct. In other words, if you have an E&O policy, insureds should not look to the policy to cover them for typical directors and officers exposures, employment practices liability exposures, or even technology exposures
4/12/2021· Failure Analysis
Glass Failure Analysis: Glass Oven Dish Failure
By: Dr. Thomas Read
The annealed borosilicate glass pie plate failed as a result of “thermal shock”. There were multiple origins for the failure, and these all initiated at damage sites on the bottom of the Pyrex baking dish. It appears that the bottom of the pie plate was convex. Thus, setting the dish down and moving it on hard (abrasive) surfaces such as tile or granite counters created bottom “rim” damage.
4/12/2021· Transportation
Defending Public Transportation Contractors, Part 1: Lead Agencies and Brokers
By: Ned Einstein
For decades, motorcoach providers have provided commuter-express service, under contract, to transit agencies (and, occasionally, to municipalities, counties or regions which do not have formal transit agencies). Particularly in the past 20 years, this role has expanded:
4/7/2021· Expert Witnessing
Retaining The Expert Witness: Begin With The End In Mind
By: Beth Mohr, CFE, CAMS, CCCI
This article will discuss the forensic accounting expert, but these same strategies apply to other types of expert witnesses in a variety of fields, including medical experts, psychologists, accident reconstruction experts, engineers and other forensic experts. The consulting expert is a member of the legal team whose job it is to support the advocacy of the attorney.
4/3/2021· Recreation & Sports
Injury Prevention: Amusement Course Safety
By: Dr. Laura Miele
An indoor trampoline park contains wall-to-wall trampolines, bordered either by angled trampoline walls or padding. Recently these parks have added features such as ninja courses, hanging nets, trapeze, wipe out, spider walls, foam obstacles and towers, to name few. All of these features require risk analysis to assist in keeping the public safe.
3/18/2021· Healthcare Facilities - Hospitals
Anatomy Of A Hospital Flex Budget Report
By: Sahel Shwayhat, MBA, FACHE
What does a Flex report tell us? The two right most columns are the crux of the Flex report. One column shows how a department performed against a static budget (developed months earlier with certain assumptions in mind), and the other column shows how a department performed against a newly "flexed" budget, that took product volume and mix into consideration.
3/14/2021· Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Meat Processor Selects Modern ERP System To Keep Pace With Its Rapid Growth
Vertical integration allows the company to control all aspects of beef production. It partners with ranchers and operates feed lots, ensuring cattle are fed to their standards. In addition to its processing capabilities, the company operates its own trucking line, providing products from farm to table. The company supplies beef to the US retail grocery and foodservice markets, federal school lunch programs and the US military worldwide.
2/25/2021· Digital / Crypto Currency
What Criminal Defense Attorneys Need To Know About Bitcoins
By: Beth Mohr, CFE, CAMS, CCCI
What is Bitcoin, and how might it impact your practice as a criminal defense attorney? In this article we’ll look at Bitcoin, what it is and how it works; we’ll discuss how bitcoins are used, both for illicit purposes, as well as for legal and legitimate business purposes. We will also examine how you might encounter bitcoins; discover ways
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