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Deciphering the USPTO's Material Alteration Standard for Amending Marks Image

Deciphering the USPTO's Material Alteration Standard for Amending Marks

Chris Bussert

As brands mature over time, their owners often seek to update marks that are subject to a federal registration or registration application. In some cases, the impetus for the amendment may be deliberately to freshen, tweak, or otherwise modernize the subject mark. In other cases, brand owners may recognize after the fact that their current usage of a mark does not match the mark as originally registered or applied for.

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Testing for Genericness After USPTO v. Booking.com

Alex Simonson

In the recent U.S. Supreme Court case of USPTO v. Booking.com, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the term Booking.com is not necessarily generic merely because it is composed of two components, each itself generic. In so deciding, Justice Ginsburg averred that there is an appropriate metric to determine if such a term is indeed generic, that of consumer perception.

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Real Property Law

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Neighbors Who Used Concrete Platform Adjacent to Fence Established Title By Adverse Possession Lawyer Who Failed to Terminate Contract in Accordance With Seller's Instructions Did Not Commit Legal Malpractice Developer Strictly Liable for Damages Caused By Excavation Contract Vendee Who Did Not Seek Mortgage In Its Own Name Failed to Comply with Mortgage Contingency Clause

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Methods for Trademark Valuations

Stacey C. Kalamaras & Henry Kaskov

Valuations of trademarks, such as those in the entertainment industry, are most commonly performed in relation to a sale or licensing transaction or for lending and collateral purposes.

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What's In Store for Bankruptcy Reform In a Biden Presidency

Mette H. Kurth & Dan Mette

Senator Elizabeth Warren has been relentlessly pursuing bankruptcy reform for two decades. And Joe Biden has adopted her comprehensive proposal. The proposals could impact commercial bankruptcy law and reverberate across our financial systems.

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Unforeseen Consequences for Bankruptcy Practice In CARES Act

Sourav Chaudhuri & Gregory Plotko

This article highlights several of these outcomes and discrepancies of the CARES Act stimulus package, including how accepting crisis funding could lead to a company becoming more distressed, how bankruptcy courts are inconsistently ruling on the ability for Chapter 11 debtors to receive PPP loans and how changes to the Bankruptcy Code altered the rights of equity holders and debtholders.

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CA Appeals Court Rules Hobbs & Shaw Film Dispute Must Be Heard By Court Image

CA Appeals Court Rules Hobbs & Shaw Film Dispute Must Be Heard By Court

Alaina Lancaster

Universal City Studios will have to settle a contract dispute with a producer from the Fast & Furious movie franchise in court after a California appeals court ruled the entertainment company could not enforce an arbitration agreement.

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Co-ops and Condominiums

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Fine for Refusal to Remove Dogs Upheld Under Business Judgment Rule

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Alice and Incongruity In PTAB Appeals

James W. Soong

This article discusses the significant contrast between consideration of issues related to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Int'l in prosecution and their resolution by the PTAB.

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New York's Commercial Lease Defenses to Paying Rent

Adam Leitman Bailey & Dov Treiman

Few landlords and commercial tenants have been completely immune from the governmentally imposed economic shutdown and COVID-19's wrath. Not including what may have been negotiated in a commercial lease, there are three traditional theories under which commercial tenants could seek to assert entitlement to forgiveness of their rent.

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