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Miller Nash LLP

Patent Portfolio Management: A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

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Most companies recognize patent portfolios as valuable business assets. They protect the investments made in research and development, and the efforts to bring products to market. As businesses evolve, and that cycle has only...more

Holland & Hart LLP

BLM Raises Fees for Unpatented Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Sites Impacting Payments Due September

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On July 1, 2024, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a final rule to adjust location and maintenance fees for federal unpatented mining claims, mill sites, and tunnel sites. The Mining Law of 1872, 30 U.S.C. § 28j(c)...more

International Lawyers Network

Buying and Selling Real Estate in Singapore (Updated)

KEY FACTS OF REAL ESTATE ACQUISITIONS UNDER SINGAPOREAN LAW - INTRODUCTION - There are two systems of land registration in Singapore: registration under the Registrations of Deeds Act, known as “unregistered land”,...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Massachusetts Judge Says Prepaid Vehicle Maintenance Plans Not Subject to State Dealer Statute

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A Massachusetts federal court judge has ruled that an OEM-branded prepaid vehicle maintenance plan sold and administered by a third-party to auto dealers is not subject to the Massachusetts Motor Vehicle Dealer Act and...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

“Business Judgment Rule” Applies to HOAs

California’s common law “business judgment rule,” as described by the courts, protects from court intervention “those management decisions which are made by directors in good faith in what the directors believe is the...more

International Lawyers Network

Buying and Selling Real Estate in Singapore (Updated)

KEY FACTS OF REAL ESTATE ACQUISITIONS UNDER SINGAPOREAN LAW - INTRODUCTION - There are two systems of land registration in Singapore: registration under the Registrations of Deeds Act, known as “unregistered land”,...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Announces 2023 Annual Pesticide Maintenance Fee Forms Available to Download from EPA Website -- Deadline for Paying Is January...

The January 17, 2023, deadline for payment of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) annual maintenance fee for pesticide registrations is approaching. The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)...more

Lowndes

CAM Expenses – Cumulative v Non-Cumulative

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During commercial leasing negotiations, landlords and tenants will often extensively negotiate the terms of a cap on the controllable operating expenses under a lease. Often, however, the issue of whether the cap will be...more

International Lawyers Network

Buying and Selling Real Estate in Singapore (Updated)

KEY FACTS OF REAL ESTATE ACQUISITIONS UNDER SINGAPOREAN LAW - INTRODUCTION - There are two systems of land registration in Singapore: registration under the Registration of Deeds Act, known as “unregistered land”, and...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Dear Patenticity: Should I Renew?

Dear Patenticity, My start-up has a small portfolio of about a dozen patents covering our core technology. One of those patents has the 11.5 year maintenance fee coming due in the next six months, but this particular...more

Roetzel & Andress

New Late Assessment Notice Requirement For Florida Condominium, Cooperative, And Homeowners’ Associations

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As of July 1, 2021, Florida condominium, cooperative, and homeowners’ associations will be required to send notice of past due assessments before they can collect attorneys’ fees from the delinquent owner. Currently, the...more

International Lawyers Network

Buying and Selling Real Estate in Singapore

KEY FACTS OF REAL ESTATE ACQUISITIONS UNDER SINGAPOREAN LAW - INTRODUCTION - There are two systems of land registration in Singapore: registration under the Registration of Deeds Act, known as “unregistered land”, and...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Substantial Increase In US Trademark Fees Will Ring In New Year 2021

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If you are considering filing a new trademark application or maintaining an existing registration, you may want to file your submission before the end of 2020. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will...more

Fish & Richardson

An Overview of Utility Patents in the United States

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What is a utility patent? The definition of a utility patent is a patent that covers “any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.”...more

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Canceled Patent Claims Do Not Entitle Former Patent Owner to a Refund

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CHRISTY, INC. v. UNITED STATES - Before LOURIE, REYNA, and HUGHES. Appeal from the Court of Federal Claims. Summary: The government’s refusal to refund patent issue and maintenance fees after patent claims are canceled...more

Fish & Richardson

Everything You Need to Know About Patent Maintenance Fees

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What are patent maintenance fees? Patent maintenance fees are mandatory fees that must be paid to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) at certain time points after a patent issues in order to keep a utility...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

Insights for New and Emerging Businesses Leasing in the Pandemic

If you are a new or emerging business owner beginning the process of finding a suitable property to lease, it is important to be critical of the lease provided by the landlord. You should also attempt to negotiate each...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Patent Junk Mail

As an Applicant for a patent, your information becomes public when the application publishes and once again when the patent itself issues. Unfortunately, there are several companies that mine this information for their own...more

BakerHostetler

USPTO Tightens Unintentional Delay Standards for Certain Petitions to Revive, Acceptances of Delayed Maintenance Fee Payments, and...

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) allows for the revival of abandoned applications, acceptance of delayed maintenance fee payments, and acceptance of delayed priority or benefit claims by the filing of a...more

Smart & Biggar

Detailed overview of deadlines and requirements under the new Canadian Patent Rules coming into force on October 30, 2019

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Recently, the government of Canada published the final version of the new Patent Rules (SOR/2019-251) in Canada Gazette, Part II on July 10, 2019. The new Rules and associated amendments to the Patent Act will come into force...more

Holland & Hart LLP

BLM Raises Fees for Unpatented Mining Claims and More

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Effective July 1, 2019, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a final rule (the Rule) to adjust location and maintenance fees for federal unpatented mining claims, mill sites, and tunnel sites. The Mining Law of 1872, 30...more

Maynard Nexsen

The House and Senate Reach An Agreement on the Roads Bill

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The Conference Committee on H.3516, commonly referred to as the “roads bill,” held several meetings late last week in an attempt to work out a compromise between the House and Senate versions of the legislation. The...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

SAP’s Licensing Time-Bomb - Software giant’s victory in “indirect use” case is cause for concern for companies worldwide

On February 16, 2017, the High Court of Justice in the United Kingdom held that Diageo plc, a global drinks company, was liable for unauthorized use of SAP software as a result of failing to secure “Named User” licenses for...more

McCarter & English, LLP

After New Connecticut Law, Sharing the Road also Means Sharing the Costs

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Connecticut has enacted a new law, Public Act 14-67 (the “Act”), that now by statute allocates the costs to maintain, repair, and restore private easements and rights-of-way among certain users of those rights. The Act took...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Fees are only part of a 401(k) Plan’s problem

10 years before I went on my own and started my own practice, I started The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C. It was a side venture, kind of an attempt to see if I can start my own practice without actually having to leave my day job....more

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