As businesses strive to distinguish themselves in the marketplace, the risk of deceptive practices (knowingly or unknowingly) by competitors increases. The intellectual property law offers protection to registered trade mark. However, owners of unregistered trade mark are not without some remedies if their mark has acquired some good will in the course of commerce. At…
Some location names just make sense. It makes sense that the city of New York is part of the state New York. Sometimes things aren’t so simple. For example, guess which state Kansas City belongs to? Kansas would be a reasonable guess. And you’d be right! …kinda. You see, there is a Kansas City, Kansas,…
The Biden-Harris Administration has released initial details of a new set of plans to provide student debt relief to borrowers nationwide. The plans would include 4 million borrowers who have already been approved for debt cancellation by the Biden-Harris Administration over the past three years. James Kvaal“These historic steps reflect President Biden’s determination that we…
Since the last update on the AD / CVD aluminum extrusions investigation (dubbed Extrusions II) in what appears to be a response to strong opposition from trade industry groups, legislators, governments, and other interested parties, as well as dubious signals from the Department of Commerce, (Commerce) the Petitioners in the ongoing Aluminum Extrusions investigation have …
Is “Bob has a spreadsheet” your firm’s answer to most business intelligence queries? Or is your other tab right now a self-service dashboard, providing instant access to well-curated KPIs? “What gets tracked gets done,” as the saying goes, but law firms are all over the map on gathering BI-related metrics. That’s why we want to…
The move by NISAU, one of the most prominent Indian student representative organisations in the UK, comes as home secretary James Cleverly announced plans recently to review the Graduate Route in the coming months. The Migration Advisory Committee has been tasked with reporting back the findings of its review of the post-study work visa by…
Picture this: you are in a hospital setting and you witness another staff member ask a Black medical student if they need help cleaning up. The staff member assumes the medical student is the janitor. Unfortunately, experiences like these are all too common in healthcare today. Within professional environments, microaggressions persist as a pervasive and…
Robbery is larceny from the person by violence or intimidation. The exact relationship between the taking and the violence is vexing. There is authority for the proposition that the use of force must be such as to induce the victim to part with the property. State v. Richardson, 308 N.C. 470, 476, 302 S.E.2d 799,…
09 April 2024 BoyarMiller To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The New York Times recently filed a landmark lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of copyright infringement in the training of the chatbot ChatGPT which launched just over a year ago….
(Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Images) The basketball tournaments have ended, but we have one more showdown in the Above the Law annual bracket challenge. When we began, Donald Trump couldn’t find anyone willing to give him a half-billion dollar bond and the AG’s office began looking into properties worth seizing to cover the judgment. We…