Traditionally, when a person applied for individual life insurance, they would need to go through an extensive underwriting process that lasted several weeks (or months) and may have included personal...

by Dennis Crouch Petitioners in Thaler v. Vidal ask the Supreme Court one simple question: Does the Patent Act categorically restrict the statutory term ‘inventor’ to human beings alone? Thaler...

A possible upcoming U.S. ban on Chinese social media platform TikTok could prompt a redistribution of advertising market share, benefiting rivals in the digital ad space including Meta Platforms Inc....

Welcome back to the 325th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast! My guest on today's podcast is Brenda Hiscock. Brenda is a financial planner with Objective Financial Partners, an...

by Dennis Crouch Hantz Software v. Sage Intacct (Fed. Cir. 2023) (non-precedential)  The district court sided with the defendant Sage, dismissing the complaint for lack of eligibility.  In a short...

Some companies, such as Progressive Life Insurance, don’t underwrite policies directly but make policies available through other insurers. Factors Influencing Cost Type of Policy Since permanent life insurance policies are...

Online stockbroker firms have opened up the world of investing to anyone with a relatively small amount of money, a computer, and an Internet connection. These firms provide their clients...

Key Takeaways Banks borrow $11.9 billion under new Fed programDiscount window lending is larger this week than at the peak of the 2008 financial crisisRegulators and economists said lending was...

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” - this week’s edition kicks off with the news that just weeks after introducing its own self-clearing platform, RIA custodian...

by Dennis Crouch AlterWAN sued Amazon for patent infringement back in 2019, asserting two patents claiming claiming wide-area-network improvements. US8595478 and US9015471.  As the case moved forward, the district court...