Nelligan Law

JUNE 11, 2021

2SLGBTQ+ rights have come a long way in Canada. Our Family Law group has created a timeline that revisits key legal decisions and events that have contributed towards progression 2SLGBTQ + rights in our country. While progress has been made, it is still important to recognize that there is a large gap between legislated rights. Read more » The post A legal timeline of 2SLGBTQ+ Rights in Canada appeared first on Nelligan Law.

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GDB Firm Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

With more than 45% of New York City residents fully vaccinated, New York and the CDC have adopted new, relaxed guidelines for requiring COVID-19 safety measures to be used in certain spaces as of May 19, 2021. But should these guidelines be followed in all buildings?

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IP Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

The path to stopping infringement of your Intellectual Property (IP) rights begins with two key questions: "Should I send a cease and desist letter?" and "Is a cease and desist letter enforceable?".

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Managing IP

JUNE 11, 2021

In-house sources at four companies reveal best practices for broadening patents, navigating international filings and strengthening enforcement

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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IP Tech Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

In a recent post , we discussed the importance of complying with the US Patent and Trademark Office’s duty of disclosure under Rule 56 of the Rules of Practice. This post focuses on the existence of this duty throughout the entire prosecution of a patent application, in a specialized factual context involving a priority application outside the US. Consider the following fact pattern: Within one year of an inventor’s public disclosure of an invention outside the US, a PCT application is filed.

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The TTABlog

JUNE 11, 2021

For some reason that completely escapes me, the Board has re-designated as precedential its February 2021 decision affirming a Section 2(e)(1) mere descriptiveness refusal of the proposed mark ONLINETRADEMARKATTORNEYS.COM for "legal services," Applicant Saucer Summers claimed acquired distinctiveness under Section 2(f) but its submissions were woefully inadequate to satisfy the heightened burden of proof for this highly descriptive mark.

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