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Stewart Sterk

Neighbors Lack Sufficient Interest to Intervene In Modification of Restriction on Land Held for Charitable Purposes Absence of Property Description Did Not Preclude Equitable Mortgage City Entitled to Cancel Contract With Delinquent Former Owner When Owner Failed to Appear At Closing Statute of Limitations Does Not Bar Continuing Nuisance Claim Against Drilling Contractor

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Landlord & Tenant Law

Stewart Sterk

Guaranty Did Not Extend Past Lease Term Holdover Rent Award Reduced Tenant Is Entitled to Yellowstone Injunction Despite Failure to Attempt to Cure

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Co-ops and Condominiums

Stewart Sterk

Shareholder's Failure to Seek Relief During Cure Period Bars Preliminary Injunction Non-Purchasing Senior Citizens Not Protected Against Eviction Upon Conversion Occupant of Rent Stabilized Co-Op Unit Entitled to Succession Rights

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Northern District of California Holds Vanity License Plates Are Not Government Speech Image

Northern District of California Holds Vanity License Plates Are Not Government Speech

Grace Tuyiringire

California DMV regulations excluding plaintiffs' personalized plates were like the PTO trademark registration restrictions of SLANTS and FUCT — restrictions struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court for violating the First Amendment.

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From the PTO to the FDA: What to Consider When Branding Clinical Trials Image

From the PTO to the FDA: What to Consider When Branding Clinical Trials

Brandon Leahy Susanna Lichter & Eva Yin

The legal implications of branding generally arise initially for companies during the process of selecting a company name and any initial product or service names. For drug development companies, however, careful consideration should also be paid to the implications of branding a clinical trial.

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IP News

Howard Shire & Shaleen J. Patel

PTAB to Follow Nautilus Standard of Definiteness

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Legal Issues and Monetization Strategies In a Quarantine-Streaming Music World, Part 2 Image

Legal Issues and Monetization Strategies In a Quarantine-Streaming Music World, Part 2

Gwendolyn Seale

Part Two of a two-part article While the livestreaming of music performances is not an entirely new phenomenon, the COVID crisis has transformed the live performance landscape, compelling artists from around the world to reach their fanbase by producing "quarantine streams," in which they livestream their sets on social media platforms. Unsurprisingly many questions have arisen.

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9th Cir. Finds No Fair Use In Dr. Seuss/Star Trek "Mashup" Image

9th Cir. Finds No Fair Use In Dr. Seuss/Star Trek "Mashup"

Robert J. Bernstein & Robert W. Clarida

In Dr. Seuss Enterprises L.P. v. ComicMix LLC, a unanimous three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit held in December that ComicMix's illustrated book combining elements of several Dr. Seuss children's books with characters, themes and other features of the popular sci-fi series Star Trek was not a fair use of the Seuss material from which it had admittedly been "slavishly" copied.

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Additional Perspective on Dr. Seuss/Star Trek Ruling Image

Additional Perspective on Dr. Seuss/Star Trek Ruling

Scott Graham

The court's decision means that in the Ninth Circuit commercial mash-ups will have to do more than place new characters in old settings to qualify for fair use.

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Lawyer Disbarred Over Mishandling of Investors' Funds for Film Project Image

Lawyer Disbarred Over Mishandling of Investors' Funds for Film Project

Charles Toutant

The New Jersey Supreme Court disbarred lawyer Gary Mason after finding he knowingly misappropriated $690,000 that investors paid to support the work of a fledgling filmmaker.

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