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Treatise Update – Kane on Trademark Law: A Practitioner’s Guide (Seventh Edition)

Kane on Trademark Law is a comprehensive resource on trademark law that provides court-tested practical suggestions on how to quickly spot potential conflicts and save time on searches, overcome common descriptiveness rejections, update or amend registrations, and prepare witnesses for depositions. It includes detailed lists of cases, full-color illustrations of previously litigated marks, sample forms, and step-by-step checklists. The treatise is updated regularly to provide in-depth analysis of the most recent developments in the field.

The new release provides expert analysis and practical insights regarding a wide range of trademark issues. Topics of interest include:

Trade dress: A color illustration from the Tenth Circuit’s Bimbo Bakeries case has been added to Appendix B. The case is also cited in section 3:2.2[F].
Clearance: Revisions discuss the importance of ensuring that the appropriate rights have been secured to use the planned typeface for the brand (see section 4:3.4).
Priority: Revisions cover requirements to establish “use analogous to trademark use” (see section 5:1.1).
Internet: Revisions cover the Metabirken NFT jury verdict and issues surrounding artificial intelligence tools, such as ChatGPT and Dall-E (see section 11:1.3).
Defenses: Revisions include updates to the General Cigar case (see section 12:2.2[D][1]) and Bluetooth case (see section 12:1.4).

The Table of Authorities has also been updated.

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What’s New on PLI PLUS

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We add content to PLI PLUS every month to ensure our subscribers have access to the most up-to-date and relevant secondary source legal documents. Renowned legal experts regularly update our acclaimed Treatises/Practice Guides, Course Handbooks, Answer Books, Transcripts, and Forms to reflect recent changes and developments in the law.

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New Edition! Net Leases and Sale-Leasebacks: A Guide to Legal, Tax and Accounting Strategies (2023 Edition)

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PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new edition of Net Leases and Sale-Leasebacks: A Guide to Legal, Tax and Accounting Strategies.

This pragmatic guide offers invaluable strategies on how to best approach the most common ownership, financing, documentation, taxation, and accounting issues associated with net leases and sale-leaseback transactions. It provides example lease documents and in-depth coverage around net leases — along with the legal and structuring issues that impact how they are taxed. Author Ken Miller packs the pages with practical guidance and insight gleaned from his storied career helping clients close more than $7 billion of U.S. commercial real estate transactions, primarily involving net-leased properties.

Some of the highlights from the new edition include:

Chapter 2: New sections on legal doctrines relevant to net leases, including landlord liability for injuries on the premises (see §2:2.1), tenant estoppel certificates (see §2:2.2), implied covenants to provide tenant with possession (see §2:2.3), and liability of successor landlord for breaches by former landlord (see §2:2.4).
Chapter 5:
- New discussion of section 467 rental agreement accrual, including assignment of a tenant’s interest in a section 467 rental agreement (see §5:3.8) and early termination of such an agreement (see §5:3.9).
- New sections on self-employment taxes (see §5:12) and state taxes (§5:13), with a focus on franchise, excise, and similar taxes in Tennessee, Texas, and California.
Chapter 6: New discussion of I.R.C. section 4975 and the “look through” rule as it applies to investments made by benefit plan investors (see §6:1).
NEW Appendix F: Section 467 Rental Agreement Accrual Table.
Appendix D and Appendix E have also been updated.

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Free Legal Form of the Month

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PLI PLUS offers unlimited electronic access to more than 4,500 downloadable, searchable, and editable legal forms ready for use in your practice. In an effort to highlight this unique content type, we’ve selected one form per month and made it available for anyone to download for free – no subscription required.

July’s free form:

Cybersecurity Due Diligence Qu estio nnaire

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New Title! Cybersecurity Obligations for Attorneys: Confidential Information in the Age of Cyber Crime

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PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new practice guide Cybersecurity Obligations for Attorneys: Confidential Information in the Age of Cyber Crime.

This book provides a general understanding of the scope of cyber threats facing the legal profession. It focuses on the expansion of Rule 1.6 (confidentiality) obligations to specifically address cyber threats and security measures. It also gives lawyers ways to think about cyber risks when managing their practices on a day-to-day basis. Attorneys can use this one-stop reference to determine their baseline cybersecurity obligations to clients and third parties.

The book covers the following important topics:

The cybersecurity threat landscape (see Chapter 1)
Cyber threat prevention under the Model Rules and various state codes (see Chapter 2)
Obligations imposed by federal and state data breach and privacy laws (see Chapter 3)
Federal regulation of cybersecurity obligations (see Chapter 4)
How to demonstrate that cybersecurity measures are reasonable using the SAFETY Act (see Chapter 5)
Cyber risk mitigation options (see Chapter 6)

Notably, the book also offers attorneys practical recommendations on creating a cybersecurity strategy (see Chapter 7). All lawyers, ranging from solo practitioners to senior managers at large firms, can benefit from the information and guidance in this book.

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New Title! Employment Discrimination: A Practitioner’s Deskbook

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PLI Press is proud to announce the publication of the new comprehensive resource Employment Discrimination: A Practitioner’s Deskbook.

This book serves as a valuable reference for employment law practitioners and individuals interested in helping their organizations effectively navigate employment discrimination-related investigations, mediations, litigations, and jury trials. Presented in a straightforward, comprehensible manner, it provides the reader with information relating to the full range of employment discrimination litigation from an active practitioner’s perspective.

Notably, the book covers the following important areas:

Responding to employment discrimination and harassment complaints (see Chapter 1)
Discovery tools (see Chapter 3)
Motion practice before and at trial (see Chapter 5)
Jury selection (see Chapter 7)
Questioning witnesses (see Chapter 8)
Addressing the jury (see Chapter 9)
Handling matters before government agencies (see Chapter 10)

Additionally, it answers the following questions:

Does failing to “officially” respond to an unofficial “off-the-record” complaint create risk?
What are the best strategies for conducting effective and thorough investigations remotely?
What are tried and true discovery strategies and the best ways to participate in motion practice?
What should lawyers consider when picking a jury and how do they make compelling arguments at trial?

We are excited to share this new title with you!

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Free Legal Form of the Month

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PLI PLUS offers unlimited electronic access to more than 4,500 downloadable, searchable, and editable legal forms and checklists ready for use in your practice. In an effort to highlight this unique content type, we’ve selected one form per month and made it available for anyone to download for free – no subscription required.

June’s free form:

List of Steps to Take to Ensure Compliance with Data Protection Laws

More information about Legal Forms & Checklists:

Forms & Checklists Flyer – This flyer provides an overview of the forms & checklists on PLI PLUS and highlights a handful of popular examples.
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Save the Date: PLI’s Lunch & Learn @ AALL Boston

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Are you attending the 2023 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference in Boston this summer? Join us for a luncheon to reconnect and learn what is new with PLI, including enhancements and upgrades to PLI PLUS.

The luncheon will take place on Sunday, July 16 from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m.

Email us at libraryrelations@pli.edu to RSVP if you will attend, and we will include location details in your confirmation email.

Treatise Update – Advertising and Commercial Speech: A First Amendment Guide (Second Edition)

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Advertising and Commercial Speech: A First Amendment Guide offers a practical examination of how the U.S. Supreme Court’s commercial speech doctrine impacts advertising across nearly 50 industries and professions. The book explores legal standards for defamation, false commercial speech, and disparagement along with developments around advertising for alcohol, financial institutions, professional services, medication, real estate, tobacco, and more.

Among the many topics discussed in this new release are the following:

Compelled editorial transparency: New section 12:13 discusses laws passed in Florida and Texas targeting social media platforms’ efforts to combat user-generated disinformation posted on their websites.
On-site and off-site signs and billboards: Section 13:2.1[A][7] covers the Seventh Circuit’s ruling regarding whether to apply strict scrutiny or intermediate scrutiny to an ordinance limiting digital displays and off-premises signs.
Drugs & drug paraphernalia: Section 14:14 explores a case from the Washington Court of Appeals rejecting a challenge to the state’s advertising restrictions on marketing cannabis products.
Regulation of advertising content: Revisions to chapter 14 include:

The ruling of a Florida judge regarding whether part of the state’s Stop W.O.K.E. Act, which forbids companies from undertaking mandatory employee DEI training programs designed to limit or avoid discrimination practices, is unconstitutional (see section 14:16 on fair employment); and
The Eastern District of Arkansas’ final ruling in the Tofurky case involving marketing of plant-based foods (see section 14:20 on food).

In addition, this release includes an updated Table of Cases, Defendant-Plaintiff Table, and Index.

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