Sander Law

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Trademarks: Descriptiveness Objection. One potential objection an Examiner may raise in an Examiner Report is that the applied for trademark is either: 1) clearly descriptive of the products or services sold under the trademark; or. 2) deceptively misdescriptive of the products or services sold under the trademark. Clearly Descriptive. The rationale for not allowing clearly descriptive marks is that it would give one person or company a monopoly over a word or phrase that other businesses should

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IP Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In the 1880s, Thomas Edison used his patent of the electric light bulb as collateral to secure the capital for the foundation of General Electric. There is no question that patents have become one of the leading sources of wealth globally. So, let us talk about assets for a moment, particularly intangible ones, which can provide long-term benefits to a business.

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DuetsBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Welcome back to another edition of Merely Informational and Incapable Marks. The above neighborhood Applebee’s is on my usual route to going anywhere from our home, so I’m predicting I’ve passed by well more than 10,000 times. The temporary “Dining Room Open” signage is a recent addition from a few months ago, when Minnesota restaurants began to re-open their dining rooms.

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GDB Firm Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Order on August 8, 2020 placing a further moratorium on evictions through December 31, 2020, in keeping with State Executive Orders issued in New York earlier this year by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, and in response to the July 24, 2020 expiration of the 120-day moratorium on eviction filings set forth in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security ("CARES") Act passed by Congress.

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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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