Carmody & Torrance LLP will hold four training sessions in 2010 for supervisors on the prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace.

Helen Taylor from Northeast Utilities is joined by Marianne Dubuque, Eileen Schain and Lisa Schain from Carmody & Torrance at the very first Greater Waterbury Walk Now for Autism.

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Employees at Carmody & Torrance participated in a Jeans Day fundraiser in support of the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund. The money raised by the staff at Carmody & Torrance helped send underprivileged children to summer camp. The firm's contribution gave the fund a significant push toward their target goal for the 2010 campaign. 

To learn more about the Campership Fund, please visit http://blogs.rep-am.com/campership/.

On June 28th, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered a decision in one of the most anticipated patent cases in recent years in Bilski v. Kappos, U.S., No. 08-964. In a narrow 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court confirmed that business methods are not categorically excluded from patent protection, thus preserving the viability of business method patents, at least for the near future.   Unfortunately, the Court avoided providing any specific guidance to practitioners, examiners or the courts as to how to analyze whether (and which) business method inventions are patentable. However, the Court did hold that the "machine-or-transformation" test, recently adopted by the Federal Circuit (the court to which all patent cases are appealed), is not the sole test for patent eligibility under Section 101 of the Patent Laws. Click here to read the full article.