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Maryland Legal Alert for Financial Services |September 04, 2019

State and Federal Legislators Seek to Curb Confessions of Judgment

Late last year, a series of Bloomberg News articles addressed the rise of the ca...

Maryland Legal Alert for Financial Services |September 04, 2019

Merchant Cash Advance Held to Be a Purchase of Accounts Receivable, Not a Loan

In a recent decision that should interest firms that provide financing under a m...

Relating to Real Estate |September 04, 2019

A Uniform List of Title Endorsements

For many years, our profession and our clients have benefitted from the form leg...

IP Tech Knowledgy |August 29, 2019

Clear Forum Selection Clause May Avoid Patent Challenge

Careful language in a forum selection clause may help avoid patents from being i...

IP Tech Knowledgy |August 15, 2019

Constant Vigilance Needed to Keep Trade Secrets

Trade secrets can offer broad and long-lasting protection of the core aspects of...

IP Tech Knowledgy |August 09, 2019

IP Trivia - MLC

The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) mentioned earlier in this issue admini...

IP Tech Knowledgy |August 09, 2019

Attacking Online Disparagement

As the internet has become the principle venue for public discourse, review site...

IP Tech Knowledgy |August 09, 2019

Software Means-Plus-Function Claiming

An element in a patent claim may be expressed as a means or step for performing ...

IP Tech Knowledgy |August 09, 2019

FUCT Can Be Trademarked [insert your favorite pun]

On June 24, 2019, in Iancu v. Brunetti, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the p...

IP Tech Knowledgy |August 09, 2019

Forum Selection in Dodocase

One of the last issues that we confront when drafting contracts is the forum sel...