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If your commercial contracts involve Incoterms, now is a good time to check those provisions to confirm that the correct term is being used and also to determine whether they are impacted by the update.

Investment advisers advising hedge funds and other private funds and their investors in Michigan may be exempt from registering with the Bureau. 

Employer-plan sponsors must review plan provisions/procedures related to hardship distributions to determine what actions are required to ensure administrative and operational compliance.

The overall effect of the proposed rules, if enacted, will be limit the degree to which unions and employers can prevent elections through unilateral action or by agreement.

Design patents continue to be an important strategic tool to protect innovation and the ornamental design of commercial products.

Nike acknowledges that Leonard provided a "rough draft" of a logo, but maintains that Nike registered a different logo that was created by a team of Nike designers on a "work-for-hire" basis.

These two trademark cases join two patent cases that the Supreme Court will hear during its next term.

For the most part, the new discovery rules more closely track the federal discovery rules. In some instances, however, the changes impose even greater obligations on parties than the federal rules.

Importers of List 3 Chinese-origin products should consider submitting exclusion requests by September 30, 2019.

Miller Canfield attorneys have acted as evaluators in some of Amazon's earliest evaluations of its new Utility Patent Neutral Evaluation Program, and we are thoroughly familiar with the process and procedures.