Counsel split on IPAB
closure
While in-house and private practice counsel see the closure
of India’s Intellectual Property Appellate Board as an opportunity for wider
reform of the country’s overburdened judicial system, they have different views
on how that reform should be achieved, several revealed to Managing IP this
week.
While some say that the technical expertise of IPAB members has
been useful for IP owners, others argue that the huge delays in appointing
experts and members to the board have made the hearing process too arduous.
Mohit Patwardhan, legal and IP counsel at pharma company ACG
Group in Mumbai, says that because the courts are already overburdened, the
Injured woman secretly videotaped by insurer, then wrongly accused of fraud
An Ontario woman was secretly followed and videotaped by the organization that should have been helping her recover from a workplace injury. Instead, Ontario s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board tried to use the videos to discredit her. Experts say all kinds of insurers use covert surveillance to intimidate claimants or discredit claims.
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Look Walls & Interiors Expands Sales Team in California, Pacific Northwest, Canada
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Look Walls & Interiors, a leading wallcovering design, and print studio, today announced that in order to meet demand from interior designers and clients, the company has added three new experienced sales representatives in northern California, Canada, and the northwest U.S. sales territories. By evolving from a distribution model to direct-to-market in Canada, Look has also made it easier to obtain wallcovering samples, price quotes, design customizations, and shipments.
Diego RIvera s mural at the San Francisco Art Institute. Image courtesy the San Francisco Art Institute.
A mammoth fresco by Diego Rivera at the cash-strapped San Francisco Art Institute that the school’s board was considering selling to pay down its mountain of debt may soon be designated as a landmark.
That proposal came one step closer to becoming a reality after the city’s board of supervisors unanimously agreed on January 12 to a landmark-designation motion put forward by city supervisor Aaron Peskin.
The battle over the fresco, which was reportedly going to be sold to George Lucas for his forthcoming Los Angeles museum, is now heating up as activists make loud calls for any discussion of the sale to be halted, while others throw allegations of racism at the school board.
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When Megan Schoenleber had to send her daughter Marlowe to daycare at two months old because it was too hard to balance childcare with conference calls at her job, she knew she had to make a career change. Although she and her husband were working from home in their corporate jobs, it was tough to juggle taking care of Marlowe, born in January 2020, with the demands of a full-time job during the pandemic, and she wanted more time to enjoy her new baby.