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Cozen O'Connor

Québec Publishes Final Regulations Under Québec’s Charter of French Language, Broadening the Translation Exemptions for Trademarks...

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On June 26, 2024, the Province of Québec released the long-awaited final amendments to the Regulation respecting the language of commerce and business (Regulation), which amend multiple French-language requirements, including...more

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Why is Legal Translation Important?

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In today’s globalized landscape, legal translation is often necessary for everything from courtroom proceedings to contract negotiations. However, legal translation goes beyond just changing words from one language to...more

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Types of Legal Translation: A Detailed Guide

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Few document services reach stakes as significant as legal translation does. As a field that necessarily hyper-focuses on specific word choice, meanings, precedents, and more, dotting i’s and crossing t’s rarely matters as...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Document Translation Challenges in Modern Litigation

The increasing globalization of business, through Internet-based commerce and the activities of multinational corporations, has made it more likely than ever that litigators in U.S. courts will be confronted with documents...more

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Are U.S. courts delivering on language access?

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During a keynote speech at a conference at Seattle University School of Law in early March, Rachel Rossi, director of the Justice Department’s Office for Access to Justice, proclaimed that “Access to justice means language...more

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Foreign Language Business Meetings Not Unlawful Discrimination, Court Finds

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In a recent decision, a New York federal court rejected a former employee’s claims that permitting employees to speak only Japanese in business meetings, where individuals who do not speak Japanese are present and are without...more

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Breaking Barriers: Language Access Programs and the New Landscape for Businesses

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Today, in the United States, the number of people who speak Spanish or a language other than English is growing rapidly. According to the United States Census, about 68 million people do not speak English at home....more

Smart & Biggar

Canadian Trademark Law 2023: A Year in Review

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2023 was an active year in Canadian trademark law. Canadian Courts addressed a wide range of issues, from licensing to comparative advertising to co-branding.   Notable changes also emerged from the Canadian Trademarks...more

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Language law: A market-friendly view of the Supreme Court

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The Indonesian Supreme Court recently issued its formal view that addresses concerns of market pertaining to the interpretation of the statutory requirement for a Bahasa Indonesia version of any agreement made involving an...more

Linda Liu & Partners

The Similarity of Foreign Language Trademarks should be Judged Based on the Common Understanding of the Relevant Public in China |...

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The basic function of a trademark is to enable consumers to identify goods and their source. When the disputed trademark is a foreign language sign, the people's court shall, based on the common understanding of the relevant...more

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

Doing Business in Québec

Our Doing Business in Québec guide provides an overview of the legal framework governing Canadian business operations in the province of Québec. This guide provides up-to-date information about the following topics: •...more

A&O Shearman

UPC Court of First Instance changes procedural language from Dutch to English to ensure fair proceedings

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On 18 October 2023, the President of the Court of First Instance of the UPC issued an order changing the procedural language from Dutch to English (the language of the patent at issue). The Court weighed the interests of...more

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Cozen Cites - October 18, 2023

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BALTIMORE — AI to Help Baltimore Agencies Bridge Language Gaps- By year’s end, the City of Baltimore will be deploying a new AI-backed service to help 911 dispatchers communicate with callers in their native language...more

TransPerfect Legal

Navigating Multilingual Disclosure in Merger Control Proceedings

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In-depth merger control reviews are intense and time-pressured matters. As a result, merging companies and their advisors are challenged to meet regulators’ ever-growing demands for internal documents. When a regulator...more

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Multilingual eDiscovery and International Investigations

When a person hears of an incident, the common understanding is that it happened locally, or nationally. However, there are situations that encompass land and water borders, affecting people from different locations and...more

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[Webinar] How to efficiently perform document review in foreign languages - March 21st, 10:00 am - 10:45 am CET

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In this webinar, our eDiscovery experts, Karim Osman & Matthijs Luisman will outline some best practices on how to efficiently perform document review in foreign languages using intuitive eDiscovery solutions. Here's what you...more

Smart & Biggar

Failed second bite at the cherry (pie): Federal Court invalidates foreign-language marks filed in bad faith

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The Federal Court recently had occasion to revisit the issue of confusion between foreign-language trademarks involving the use of Chinese characters in Canada. ...more

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CFPB Bites of the Month - 2022 Annual Review - Nondiscrimination and Military Protection Laws

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In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2022 applicable to consumers protected by nondiscrimination and military protection laws. The CFPB has historically been particularly active with respect to...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Employer Alert: AB 2068 Requires Cal/OSHA Postings in Multiple Languages

Effective January 1, 2023, AB 2068 provides that employers posting a Cal/OSHA citation, special order or action must post the Cal/OSHA English version of the notice, along with multiple language versions of the notification...more

TransPerfect Legal

Finding And Understanding Multilingual Documents: Where Technical Nuance & Language Converge

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We live in a global environment where commercial disputes, white-collar crime, and antitrust issues frequently cross international borders. There are thousands of non-English e-discovery litigations and investigations every...more

Roetzel & Andress

Limited English, Limited Defenses (Potentially…)

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The U.S. court system has long recognized the difficulty with equal access to justice when an individual with limited English proficiency appears in a U.S. court. Therefore, courts across the country now require that...more

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Three Keys to Substantial Compliance in Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions

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Cross-border M&A deals reached an all-time high of $2.1 trillion in 2021. Many of these transactions were subjected to merger clearance proceedings in the US and/or abroad. As a result, an unprecedented number of US second...more

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Quebec’s Bill 96: How We Can Help

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This past May, the Quebec government adopted Bill 96, with the intention of ultimately strengthening the Quebec language laws and preserving the French language. Although businesses with more than 50 employees were already...more

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HHS Proposes Rule Strengthening Section 1557 Protections Against Nondiscrimination in Health Activities

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​​​​​​​On Aug. 4, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its proposed rule, Nondiscrimination in Health Care and Activities (Proposed Rule), to revise its regulations pertaining to Section 1557 of the...more

Miles Mediation & Arbitration

Bilingual Listening: A Bilingual Mediator’s Greatest Asset

In a 2014 TED Talk “The Power of Listening,” William Ury posed a simple question that is fundamental to negotiation and all human interaction, “if a person speaks … and no one listens, is that really communication?”1 He...more

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