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Potomac Law Group, PLLC

Three Tips for Your Company's Form Agreements

What’s missing from your company’s form agreements? Using form agreements allows companies to achieve efficiencies, consistency, and preferred contract language, but reliance on the standard terms that have become routine in...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

An Influencer’s Guide to Contracts: Key Terms you Can’t Ignore

The digital age has rocketed content creators to the forefront of entrepreneurship. Content creators often do more than create content; they build lucrative online presences that serve as platforms for diverse businesses...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Three Point Shot - June 2024

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A Céspedes for the Rest of Us! Ex-New York Met Has Himself a Day, Winning a Critical Preliminary Injunction, as Chandler Bats Founder Finds Himself in a Pickle - The companies of ex-MLB player Yoenis Céspedes—La Potencia,...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Important Considerations for Limitation of Liability Carveouts

Limitation of liability provisions are standard in almost every contract and are essential in helping the contract parties limit their risk. These provisions typically contain a broad disclaimer of consequential damages and a...more

Knobbe Martens

Who Owns the Royale With Cheese? - Miramax Sues Tarantino Over the Sale of Pulp Fiction Related NFTs

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On November 16, 2021, Miramax, LLC (“Miramax”) brought claims of breach of contract, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and unfair competition against director Quentin Tarantino. Miramax alleges that Tarantino...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

GPL Open Source Litigation Could Open the Door to Other Suits

In today’s digital age, the question isn’t whether there is open source software being used in a company’s products, but how it is being used and what license governs its use. Open source is ubiquitous.  Despite its...more

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Restrictive Covenants in the Time of Coronavirus

The spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to changes regarding many legal issues. Despite the changes, companies still need to protect confidential information, goodwill, customer relationships, and...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Fettucine Al Fraudo—New York Pizzaiolo in Hot Water After Alleged Theft of Secret Pasta Recipe

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Manhattan restaurant Sottolio, Inc., d/b/a Norma Gastronomia Siciliana hired Giuseppe Manco—“a noted Italian pizza chef, or pizzaiolo”—to consult on its menu. At the same time, Manco and his wife purchased a 9% interest in...more

FordHarrison

Non-Compete News: – Georgia Court Interprets Non-Compete Statute's "Sale-of-a-Business" Provision

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Georgia’s Restrictive Covenants Act (O.C.G.A. § 13-8-50 et seq.) (“RCA”) governs Georgia non-compete agreements entered into after May 2011. Very few courts have interpreted the RCA since its inception. In Bearoff v. Craton,...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Vested Rights Clause Restores Trademark to Original Applicant

Addressing the issue of trademark ownership under since-terminated development and commercialization agreements, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed in part and affirmed in part, finding that under a...more

Jaburg Wilk

Mildly Satisfied, Still Grumpy: Grumpy Cat Prevails over Infringers

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Celebrity kitty Tardar Sauce aka “Grumpy Cat” (or, rather, the entity that owns rights to the GRUMPY CAT brand) has prevailed on its claims of breach of contract and trademark and copyright infringement against a beverage...more

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