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Actionable Trademark Infringement
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has held that the sale of products lacking a unique serial number applied by a brand owner for anticounterfeiting and quality control purposes constitutes trademark infringement under federal law. This is so even if the removal of the code does not cause physical damage to an otherwise genuine product and consumers are not aware that the code has been removed.
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Highlights of the latest equipment leasing news from around the country.
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Performing a Litigation Audit on Your Lease Agreements
This article discusses the applicable general principles and drafting considerations for some of the most frequently litigated boilerplate provisions: choice-of-law, forum selection, venue, jury trial waiver and attorney's fees.
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Invest in Next Gen X Leaders Now!
Many smart companies and professional firms are betting that training and coaching the next generation in leadership skills will help them through the recovery period and give them an edge when competitors start building again. Now is the time to focus on generational leadership development.
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Practice Building Skills: Where to Focus Your Efforts with Online Social Networking
Online networking is no substitute for face-to-face business development meetings. An online presence will make it easy to contact you, showcase your knowledge, help meet potential clients and generate leads. But the goal of online networking is to meet with a contact in person.
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Client Speak: Quality Work v. Quality Service
Many marketing professionals with whom the author has spoken have no doubt that quality work, while clearly essential, will not cause a firm to stand out from the competition ' but that quality service will. Is this still true?
Media & Communications Corner: Making Outlook More Useful for Relationship-Centered Professionals
If your outlook on everyday business communications is heavily influenced by, well, Microsoft Outlook, then there's a good chance you've wished at one point or another that you could tweak the software to make it serve your needs more efficiently. The good news is that you can.
A New Beginning
Thinking of law school as an assured meal ticket or as simply a safe harbor in which to weather the economic storm is probably not appropriate in today's world, particularly given the substantial debt that law students typically incur in order to pay for their education," notes a prominent law school dean.
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