In October, a judge commanded a firm to pay more than $615,000 for misdemeanors relating to the company's sale of IT products to Internet cafes. The business litigation brought by the Ohio state attorney general claimed that the firm failed to adhere to state...
A trial has begun in an Ohio courtroom in which the defendant has been charged by the state of conducting a $100 million multistate charity fraud. The state alleges that the defendant defrauded donors to the United States Navy Veterans Association. The defendant's...
Companies in Ohio that do business internationally may be affected by the ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and 11 other countries over the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. The TPP talks, which involve countries lining the Pacific rim, seem to be stuck over...
A recent copyright infringement lawsuit may be of interest to Ohio residents. Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and her political action committee is being sued for her use of an iconic photo that was taken in New York on September 11, 2001. The well-known photo...
Harper Lee, the 87-year-old-author of the iconic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", reached a settlement in a copyright theft lawsuit that she had filed earlier this year against her former agent who she contended had conned her out of her copyright interest in her novel....
Ohio casino industry analysts were watching developments as the Las Vegas gambling giant Sands Corp. was ordered by the U.S. government to pay $47.4 million under a 10-day deadline to avoid prosecution. The business litigation fell onto the casino company after...
Ohio residents may be surprised to hear that the EPA has stopped allowing new contracts to be issued to BP, the oil giant responsible for spilling over 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico three years ago. BP is now suing the EPA over a temporary ban...
More than two dozen people have filed lawsuits against an Ohio auto company that has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to resolve numerous cases since December 2012. Some of the complaints lodged against the prominent Miamisburg dealership include fraud...
Ohio businesses may be interested in learning about the growth of intellectual property. There are three major forms of power that a business' leverage comes from: physical power, tangible objects and intangible objects. Physical power and tangible objects have...
Inventors and consumers in Ohio may have heard of 'patent trolls." The common perception of a patent troll is someone who files a baseless suit for patent infringement, hoping that the defendant in the suit will settle for a sizable sum rather than pay the legal costs...