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ArticleTrademark Week In Review: October 3, 2014And here’s your trademark trivia: RANGER trademark registered on this day in 1967 by Ford. As seen on this brochure from 1965United StatesIntellectual PropertyStites & Harbison PLLC
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ArticleKentucky To Consider E-Recording ReformsThe past two decades have seen a paradigm shift in the way states sign, record, and notarize documents.United StatesReal Estate and ConstructionStites & Harbison PLLC
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