IP Tech Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

To mitigate potential conflicts of interest and to improve the public’s understanding of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) procedures, the agency has recently made various amendments to its rules relating to the conduct of registered patent attorneys and agents. The resulting changes mirror some well-recognized provisions of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Rules of Professional Conduct.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

Image by stokpic from Pixabay. In the midst of the economic and social paralysis arising from the COVID 19 pandemic, the tireless discipline of law has prevailed as always, if anything with increased activity. The Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances (BTAP, hereinafter the “Treaty”) came into force on 28 April 2020 in the first thirty contracting parties (the minimum number required).

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Art Law Journal

JUNE 18, 2021

Steve Schlackman. The treaties and laws around archaeological treasures and cultural heritage sites makes it difficult to know who owns the artifacts from the discoveries.

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GDB Firm Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

A new amendment to New York's General Obligations Law §15-501 et. seq., which became effective as of June 13, 2021, is intended to simplify the process of drafting, and using, a power of attorney, while clarifying the powers and obligations of an agent.

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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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Art Law Journal

JUNE 18, 2021

The treaties and laws around archaeological treasures and cultural heritage sites makes it difficult to know who owns the artifacts from the discoveries. The post Who Owns Archaeological Treasures and Artifacts appeared first on Art Business Journal.

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GDB Firm Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

Important amendments to the New York Statutory Short Form Power of Attorney (POA) statute became effective June 13. The revisions are based on the recommendations of a New York State Bar Association Task Force to fix problems with the prior law. I was the Business Law Section representative to the task force.

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Trading Secrets

JUNE 18, 2021

Next Thursday, June 24, at 12:00 a.m. Eastern/9:00 a.m. Pacific, Seyfarth partner Dawn Mertineit will present a live webcast discussing Lex Machina’s Trade Secret Litigation Report for 2021. Dawn will join Morgan Lewis’s Seth Gerber and one of Lex Machina’s legal content associates and co-author of the report, Gloria Huang, to discuss the key trends in the report, including the number of trade secrets case filings, average timing for various stages of litigation, most active law firms and partie

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