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What happens when two businesses, one an insurance broker on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls and the other a bank holding company on the American side, begin using similar domain names and trademarks that result in thousands of misdirected e-mails?
Due to the increasing integration of the global economy and the Internet's pervasive effect on modern-day trademark law, the aggrieved parties have at least three different legal bodies from which to seek relief:
This article describes one party's choice of the TTAB, which is expected to decide the case in the coming months. As part of the TTAB's outreach efforts to the trademark bar, the Board occasionally hears actual oral arguments in pending cases – with the consent of parties to the actions. In this case, a hearing for final arguments was held at the New York City headquarters of the CLE group Practising Law Institute in February. Here's the gist of the arguments.
First Niagara Insurance Brokers Inc.
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
UCC Sections 9406(d) and 9408(a) are one of the most powerful, yet least understood, sections of the Uniform Commercial Code. On their face, they appear to override anti-assignment provisions in agreements that would limit the grant of a security interest. But do these sections really work?