In 2018, the First Circuit in Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC, 879 F.3d 389 (1st Cir. 2018) (the Tempnology Decision) decided that trademark licensees lost their rights under a trademark license when the chapter 11 debtor-licensor rejected the trademark license between the parties. This decision by the First Circuit conflicted with another circuit court decision from the Seventh Circuit, leading the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve the conflict amongst the circuits regarding the rights of a licensee in a trademark that is rejected by a debtor-licensor in a bankruptcy case.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has just proposed new overtime rules to replace those that were presented during the Obama administration, but frozen by the courts after the 2016 election. Since this new story broke, much has been written about it in the media. But most reports have buried the lead.

In this alert, Immigration partner Roxanne Levine reports on two business immigration updates - 1.) On March 11, USCIS announced that it would resume premium processing for all H-1B petition filings. 2.) The administration announced this week that it intends to shut down its USCIS international division, which services U.S. citizens, permanent residents and refugee applicants in its worldwide locations in order to furnish more staff with resources to handle lengthy backlogs in asylum applicants from tens of thousands of migrants crossing the southern border. Learn more about the implications of these developments.