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More Than a Recitation of Hooke's Law Needed for Patent Protection A Claim for a Chair Limits the Claim to a Chair

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Block and lot indexes prevalent in New York City were designed to make title searches simpler than those necessary under the grantor-grantee index system prevalent in many other areas of the state and country. Suppose, however, block and lot numbers change over time. To what extent are purchasers on notice of deeds recorded under a block and lot number different from the one prevalent at the time of purchase?

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Constructive Trust Does Not Require Transfer In Reliance Failure to Obtain Subdivision Approval Does Not Make Title Unmarketable Accounting Necessary When Property Is Purchased With Wrongfully Appropriated Funds,br> Church Documents Establish That Synod Did Not Wrongfully Take Local Church's Property Allegations of Fraud Insufficient to Extend Statute of Limitations on Foreclosure Action Bona Fide Purchaser Prevails Over Mortgagee of Erroneously Discharged Mortgage

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Landonwner Entitled to Nonconforming Use Status Public Trust Claim Reinstated

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Tenant Not Entitled to Recover Consequential Damages for Second Hand Smoke Tenant Failed to Establish Constructive or Actual Eviction Failure to Send Statutory Notice Subjects Apartment to Rent Stabilization Overcharge Claim Dismissed Because DHCR Had Primary Jurisdiction

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Purchaser Entitled to Return of Downpayment When Co-Op Failed to Consent

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This summer, the Madrid System turned 30 years old, and as two more countries prepare to join the Madrid Protocol we look at how the Madrid System has grown as it enters full adulthood.

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Now that we are in the digital age, questions have been raised about the trade dress of websites and apps.