Licensing Practices News Today

As promised in our earlier post (see "Professor Sarnoff Provides His Perspective on Tillis Bill"), here we turn to Professor Joshua Sarnoff's thoughts on the portions of Senator Thom...

Charging excessive fees. qualcomms licensing practices have strangled competition and harmed rivals. equipment manufacturers and consumers in the process. the company makes computers and modems for smartphones but it makes most of its money from licensing technology that allows phones to connect to cell phone towers. the judge ruled qualcomm should not receive a percentage of sales of each phone a company sells and ordered it to renegotiate license terms with customers in good faith. the ruling ...

In texas you need 300 hours of course work just to work in the wig trade. im sure wig making is a fine art but regulations like this are ludicrous and hurt the working poor the most. let anyone who thinks they can arrange a bouquet set up shop as a florist and let the market decide if theyre any good, not some absurd board of accreditation. mostly made up of florists. in late may, republican house majority leader, eric cantor decided to take on beauty salon licenses and urged governors from acro...

Lawyer. in texas you need 300 hours of course work just to work in the wig trade. im sure wig making is a fine art but regulations like this are ludicrous and hurt the working poor the most. let anyone who thinks they can arrange a bouquet set up shop as a florist and let the market decide if theyre any good, not some absurd board of accreditation. eric cantor decided to take on beauty salon licenses and urged reform of licensing practices which create barriers for low-income workers. thats a st...