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Fast Fashion Creating Even Faster Copies?: Examining Shein’s Intellectual Property and Racketeering Suit

The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

However, independent designers are accusing Shein of something much more sinister: systematic and rampant intellectual property theft amounting to racketeering. She graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2022 and is interested in intellectual property matters as they relate to creative industries.

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Eight Legal Software Solutions for Eight Fields of Law

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I’d like to shine the spotlight on emerging vertical tools that address the needs of lawyers in specific fields like immigration, family law, or (my field) intellectual property. I specialize in Intellectual property law, not employment or personal injury. Field of law: Intellectual property.

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Alt Legal Partners with CompuMark to Expand Its Global Trademark Coverage

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Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO). Clarivate is a public company formed in 2016 after the acquisition of Thomson Reuters’ intellectual property and science business. Until now, Alt Legal’s docketing platform has focused on U.S. and Canada. .”

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Women’s History Month 2024

Legal Expert Connections

Janet Wood Reno (1938-2016): As the first female Attorney General of the United States, Reno had a life filled with “firsts.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020): The second woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court, Ginsburg achieved greatness when the legal profession was dominated almost entirely by men.

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Launching Today, Tangibly is First Platform to Systematically Manage A Company’s Trade Secrets

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.” Protecting ‘Brilliant Ideas’ Describing himself as “a chemist by training, an entrepreneur by circumstance,” Londergan told me he had long been concerned with the lack of formal protections for the know-how that was the core intellectual property for most companies.

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The e-Privacy Regulation

Global LegalTech Hub

The PymeLegal Team, Consultancy of private and intellectual property The e-Privacy Regulation will be the European regulation that will replace the Directive (EU) 2002/58 on Privacy and Electronic Communications in force in Europe, which in Spain was transposed by the Law on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce 34/2002 (the LSSI).

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Patents over Patients: How Pharmaceutical Companies use the Patent System to Keep Drug Costs High

Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

10] Although the initial patent on Humira expired in 2016, thanks to the over 75 patents filed three years before its expiration, AbbVie is set to hold the monopoly until 2034. [11] 30] The question is where exactly to draw the line when balancing patent holders’ intellectual property rights with patients’ rights to affordable medications. [31]

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