Publications

On August 15th, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report sure to add fuel to the continuing debate over Medicare payments to rural providers: “Most Critical Access Hospitals Would Not Meet the Location Requirements if Required to Reenroll in Medicare.” After digitally plotting critical access hospital (CAH) and […]

Health care providers and suppliers are well aware that they are living in a world of increased enforcement and that the Federal government has a growing arsenal of tools it uses to enforce the Federal health care laws and regulations.  The Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human […]

TTAB Decisions Have No Preclusive Effect In Federal Courts B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Indus. Inc., No. 10-3137, 3013 U.S. App. Lexis 8296 (8th Cir. E. D. Ark. May 1, 2013). This Eighth Circuit decision involved a longstanding legal battle between Hargis and B&B Hardware over a trademark for the […]

The political world is taking aim at entities whose business model is to generate licensing and settlement revenue by threatening companies with frivolous patent infringement lawsuits. Such entities are formally referred to as “patent assertion entities” (PAEs) but more commonly known as “patent trolls.”   PAEs tend to assert claims […]

In a landmark ruling earlier this year, the Supreme Court held that the first sale doctrine, which allows for legally acquired copyrighted works to be resold by their owners, applies to all works, regardless of whether they are manufactured domestically or abroad. The ruling comes from the case of Kirtsaeng […]