U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently announced that it is extending the remote I-9 verification for employers and workspaces operating remotely through December 31, 2020.

Intermarket Insurance Agency, Inc. recently escaped liability to its insured on a policy placement, winning summary judgment on the two counts of the complaint directed to it.

Elizabeth Borland and Scott Woldow successfully represented Evonik Degussa GmbH in a trademark opposition against Basic & Co. SRL before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

In the news this week, research firm IFI CLAIMS Patent Services reported that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted 304,126 utility patents...

Richard Rivera wrote the article, "Quixotic Applicant Cannot Register Tilted Windmill Design," published in the latest International Trademark Association Bulletin. Below is an excerpt

The patented technology provides diagnostic and treatment capabilities that use a unified code that is intrinsic to physiological brain function.

Following a ten-day jury trial, a Florida jury found that some of BRP's Sea-Doo personal watercraft vehicles infringed two of Arctic Cat's patents relating to steering technology for personal watercraft.

In order to register a trademark based on use in commerce, or to renew a registration based on a foreign or international registration, trademark owners are required to verify that the mark is in use in U.S. commerce...

Stryker and Zimmer are competitors selling devices which are a combination spray gun and suction tube for cleaning tissue during surgery

On July 5, 2016, the Georgia Supreme Court issued a decision in Scapa Dryer Fabrics, Inc. v. Knight, et al., in which the plaintiff alleged he was exposed to asbestos-containing products at a textile manufacturer's facility...

O.C.G.A. § 9-10-31.1 allows a court to dismiss a lawsuit filed in Georgia, "for the convenience of the parties and witnesses" when that claim "would be more properly heard in a forum outside of" Georgia.

Several Georgians borrowed modest sums and secured those loans using the proceeds they might recover on personal injury claims.

Earlier this month, Kobe Steel, Ltd. made several public announcements stating that products it had shipped during the past year had not met customer specifications.

One of the unique aspects of decisions of the Georgia Court of Appeals has been the concept of "physical precedent." With rare exceptions, the Georgia Court of Appeals relies on three-judge panels to decide cases.

A previous post in this blog reported that the Georgia Court of Appeals decided in Cherokee Funding, LLC v. Ruth, Case No. A17A0132 (decided June 27, 2017) ...

Continuing its aggressive approach to the enforcement of privacy law violations, the FTC last week imposed on Musical.ly, Inc., the operator of the popular TikTok app ...

Last week, following President Trump's March 13, 2020 declaration of a national emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) postponed the April 15, 2020...

If the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the "Act") is enacted, as currently drafted, then it would kill non-qualified deferred compensation as we know it today.

Many LLCs and partnerships amended their governing documents in 2018 because of the various new tax rules that came into effect last year.

On August 28, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued guidance for employers with respect to the deferral of the employee portion of certain payroll taxes.