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July 16, 2018 - Play-Doh scent & other new unusual trademarks

By Julianne Henley Miller, Nash, Graham & Dunn NW Law firm, Did you know you can federally register a scent as a brand? Hasbro, Inc.’s recent registration of the smell of Play-Doh “toy modeling compounds” has highlighted one of the lesser-known brand categories: scents. The United States defines a trademark […]


July 12, 2018 - Oregon’s high-tech outlook

By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analaysis This post circles back on the recent Headwinds and Tailwinds presentation I gave at the Northwest Economic Research Center’s forecast breakfast. It also ties directly into the previous post on Oregon’s industrial structure overall. The biggest high-tech takeaway from an industrial structure […]


July 10, 2018 - Uber led employment model faces risks

By Cascade Employers Association, Every business has, at some point, struggled with recruitment. The inability to find applicants means that sometimes you hire someone just to get a “warm body” in the seat, and hope they can complete the duties well enough to get by. In cases like these, staffing […]


July 9, 2018 - Final rules for how you schedule employee time

By Benjamin P. O’Glasser Bullard Law, Portland based law firm Oregon’s predictive scheduling law goes into effect on July 1, 2018. We previously wrote about Oregon’s predictive scheduling law in August 2017. In advance of the law’s effective date, BOLI has issued final administrative rules that will govern its administration […]


July 5, 2018 - 3 business impact rulings you likely missed

By Dr. Eric Fruits, Oregon Economist, This has been a big year for business in the courts. A U.S. district court approved the AT&T-Time Warner merger, the Supreme Court upheld Amex’s agreements with merchants, and a circuit court pushed back on the Federal Trade Commission’s vague and heavy handed policing […]


July 4, 2018 - Taxing corporate profits on per-country basis

Congressman Peter DeFazio, Press Release, Rep. Peter DeFazio introduced legislation to discourage multinational corporations from moving abroad by taxing corporate profits on a per-country basis. “Republicans promised that their tax plan would bring jobs home to the U.S., but instead it is encouraging multi-billion dollar corporations to move jobs and […]


July 3, 2018 - CA Consumer Privacy Act Ballot Measure on hold

By Maayan Lattin Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Oregon law firm The Los Angeles Times has reported that the California Legislature and the activists behind the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 have reached a tentative deal for the withdrawal of the privacy measure primed for the November ballot. In exchange […]


July 2, 2018 - Trade tensions affect Oregon businesses

By Oregon Prosperity Project When economists from the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis presented the Economic and Revenue Forecast in June 2018, they identified trade tensions as one of a handful of national and international political/economic factors – along with a tightening labor supply and rising interest rates – that […]