More Than Your Mark

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Despite the widely diverging needs of the different industries that make use of the US patent system, US patent law applies essentially the same rules to innovations from all technology fields. This means that drug and biotechnology-based inventions are treated no differently by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as inventions in fields such as computer science, information technology, household consumer products, financial services, and industrial chemicals, etc.

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GDB Firm Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Many of our condominium clients face expensive capital improvement projects. While cooperatives can obtain a traditional mortgage loan by pledging their building as collateral, condominiums cannot do this. But there is still a way for condos to finance their projects.

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GDB Firm Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Welcome to the Gallet Dreyer & Berkey, LLP Banking and Financial Institutions Blog. Our firm provides legal services to a wide range of banks and other financial institutions, from some of the smallest in New York to some of the largest in the world. Every week, we encounter one or more tidbits of legal information, or legal issues, that we want to share with our clients and others in the industry.

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GDB Firm Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

?Unfortunately, many boards and managing agents of New York City cooperatives report continuing problems with shareholders who are always doing something to annoy their neighbors or who continually break co-op rules. What can be done? Fortunately, most proprietary leases provide the co-op with a choice of two remedies.

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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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GDB Firm Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

A subcontractor's mechanic's lien was dismissed as untimely when it was determined that the subcontractor's last few months of work did not count as work performed pursuant to the underlying contract.

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GDB Firm Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Often the Supreme Court opinions which are released to the least fanfare can have the biggest impact. While the Supreme Court decision in Timbs v. Indiana released on February 20, 2019, does not have the cachet of the decisions regarding the Affordable Care Act or equality in marriage, it does set a new and important limitation on the right of the police to seize property that was used in the commission of a crime.

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GDB Firm Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

As a landlord (especially in a Cooperative), you want to make sure maintenance is timely paid, as the building's own financial obligations are dependent on that income. But sometimes in the haste to get paid, some basic facts are overlooked or not even known.

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GDB Firm Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

An apparent split between Appellate Divisions has finally been resolved by the Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals held that a landlord can be liable on a mechanic's lien filed by a contractor which only performed work for a tenant in the building. The landlord's "consent" could be found in provisions in the lease requiring specific improvements.

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GDB Firm Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

For many - one of the allures of owning real estate in Manhattan is that owners are afforded certain liberties and freedoms that renters do not otherwise have. However, unit ownership in a multiple dwelling is not free from restriction.

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GDB Firm Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Effective December 12, 2018, per Local Law 117 of the City of New York, the owner of a unit in a multiple dwelling must provide to its tenant(s) stove knob covers for each knob located on the front of each gas-powered stove where the owner knows or reasonably should know that a child under six years of age resides in the unit. Owners must also provide stove knob covers in a unit without a child under age six if the tenant requests them.

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