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		<title>CMS PROPOSES AMENDMENTS TO CLINICAL LABORATORY REGULATIONS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 12, 2011 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services proposed a new rule that would amend the regulations promulgated under Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (“CLIA”). The proposed regulations specify that a lab must provide access to completed test reports upon a patient’s request. The lab’s authentication process must confirm that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on HUD LEAN Mortgage Insurance Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I posted about whether the HUD LEAN Mortgage Insurance Process is working. It appears that HUD still has an unmanageable backlog. Yesterday HUD&#8217;s Office of Healthcare Programs announced that it is changing its electronic firm application package requirements and deleting various documents from the firm application. These documents will only have to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEW IRS FORM FOR SOME EXEMPT ORGANIZATION DETERMINATIONS And a Refresher Course on Certain Private Foundation/Public Charity Issues</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciakanewilliams.com/healthcare-and-affordable-housing/new-irs-form-for-some-exempt-organization-determinations-and-a-refresher-course-on-certain-private-foundationpublic-charity-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[advance ruling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All nonprofits must file either a Form 1023 or a Form 1024 in order to obtain an initial determination of exempt status. The IRS has released a new form that tax-exempt organizations will use to request certain determinations about their tax exempt status. The new Form 8940, Request for Miscellaneous Determination, will be used to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN VERMONT DATA MINING LAW</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciakanewilliams.com/healthcare-and-affordable-housing/supreme-court-strikes-down-vermont-data-mining-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciakanewilliams.com/healthcare-and-affordable-housing/supreme-court-strikes-down-vermont-data-mining-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare & Affordable Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Privacy Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Hudson Gas & Elec.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IMS Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pharmaceutical marketing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patriciakanewilliams.com/?p=276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court has spoken. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which had held that Vermont’s Prescription Confidentiality Law unconstitutionally burdens the speech of pharmaceutical marketers and data miners without adequate justification. Sorrell v. IMS Health, Inc., No. 10-779, (S. Ct. June 23, 2011.) At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Industrial Design – The Intersection of  Copyright and Trademark Law</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciakanewilliams.com/trademarks-copyrights/industrial-design-%e2%80%93-the-intersection-of-copyright-and-trademark-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Collezione Europa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[false designation of origin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greenwich Industries]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[reverse passing off]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Universal Furniture International]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are many, sometimes overlapping, ways to protect from misappropriation products designed and manufactured by a company. Patent law can be used to protect the “mechanics” of the product, the part of it that makes it perform what it was designed to perform. Copyright law protects the aesthetics of the product, its form as opposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Will the IRS Exempt Organizations Division Be Looking for in 2011?</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciakanewilliams.com/healthcare-and-affordable-housing/what-will-the-irs-exempt-organizations-division-be-looking-for-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[            In December, the IRS Exempt Organizations Division issued a combined summary of activities in 2010 and work plan for 2011.  Here is what to expect in 2011:

The Pension Protection Act of 2006 made two important changes affecting exempt organizations.  First, all exempt organizations, other than churches and church-related organizations, must file an annual return [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Constitutionality of Restrictions on Prescription Data Mining Reaches Supreme Court</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciakanewilliams.com/healthcare-and-affordable-housing/constitutionality-of-restrictions-on-prescription-data-mining-reaches-supreme-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare & Affordable Housing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[            I discussed at http://tinyurl.com/2b9c9pt the cases from the First Circuit holding constitutional New Hampshire and Maine statutes restricting the sale of prescriber identifiable prescription information.  The Supreme Court declined to hear appeals from these cases.  I predicted that it would take a conflict among the circuits, i.e., a holding from another circuit striking down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on P2P Music Downloading</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciakanewilliams.com/trademarks-copyrights/more-on-p2p-music-downloading/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciakanewilliams.com/trademarks-copyrights/more-on-p2p-music-downloading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Information Technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[contributory copyright infringement]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[file sharing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[LimeWire]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At http://tinyurl.com/2bqsuty I discussed the Harper v. Maverick Recording Company case. In that case, the Fifth Circuit held that a 16-year old cheerleader was properly held liable for copyright infringement by downloading 37 audio files through the file-sharing program LimeWire. It also held that she was not an &#8220;innocent infringer&#8221; and imposed minimum statutory damages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Post: Former CEO on Board Can Stifle Business by Pam Babcock</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciakanewilliams.com/healthcare-and-affordable-housing/guest-post-former-ceo-on-board-can-stifle-business-by-pam-babcock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare & Affordable Housing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deciding whether a departing CEO should serve on the board and oversee a successor might seem like a benign consideration. But it can impede an organization’s efforts to move forward and ultimately affect the bottom line, a recent study found.
&#8220;Departing CEOs are likely to have valuable knowledge about the firm, but these CEOs also could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Spencer v. World Vision</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciakanewilliams.com/nonprofit-organizations/update-on-spencer-v-world-vision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At http://tinyurl.com/2d6zfy6 I discussed Spencer v. World Vision, the 9th Circuit case holding that World Vision could terminate employees on the basis of religion.  Since the opinion was rendered, additional proceedings have been filed.
On September 7 the employees filed a petition for rehearing en banc (i.e., rehearing by the entire panel of 9th Circuit judges).  They stated that [...]]]></description>
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