A successful business strategy can hardly ignore the acquisition and enforcement of intellectual property. Employee mobility, reverse engineering, international business partners, malicious actors, and mere disregard all pose infringement risks. Clients need a firm that can design and execute an effective strategy to protect its intellectual property rights.
For many clients, Scale is the firm to vindicate their rights. Scale’s team of attorneys have worked on clients’ most important matters, ranging from billion verdicts to matters of strategic significance. Our litigators’ experience in-house and in elite law firms helps us to distill issues and deliver immediate value to our clients. We build winning strategies from day one. And we think through all the angles. Our clients trust us to achieve the right result.
Scale LLP’s nontraditional structure and the breadth of experience of our attorneys aligns with our client’s IP litigation needs, including leveraging financing, litigating with nimble teams, and sharing risk with clients.
OCC Bulletin Offers Guidance on Venture Lending
In the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank crisis and other incidents of banking distress last year, new participants continue to enter the venture debt market — resulting in the formation of new banking relationships. Accordingly, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) issued Bulletin 2023-34 (the “Bulletin”) to address what it sees as “heightened uncertainty” created by these developments.
California’s New Small Business Commercial Financing Regulations
The goal of S.B. 666 is to protect small business borrowers by restricting the types of fees they may be charged by brokers or providers of certain business loans.3 In this article, we address key issues arising under S.B. 666 for both borrowers and lenders.
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