On August 27, 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office quietly announced that it would be deprecating its current Patent Assignment Search and Assignments on the Web assignment search portals and ...

“I think they’re going to have to grapple with the fact that we don’t have to go to firms for soup-to-nuts work on any issue,” said one general counsel. While legal department jobs appear to be at ...

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Medicare. That eight-letter word conjures both relief and angst. Medicare, of course, is the government-sponsored program providing payment for some of the costs of health care to folks 65 and older.