Today, Reavis Page Jump LLP takes center stage in the just-published 2019 "New York's Women Leaders in the Law" supplement to the New York Law Journal and New York Magazine. Each year, the supplement features the city's top women-led firms that are doing outstanding work and driving women's leadership in the legal field. Featured...
This is the third article in a series addressing proposed Title IX regulations, which were published by the U.S. Department of Education on November 16, 2018 and intended to address institutional procedures for investigating and resolving complaints of sexual harassment and sexual assault in educational institutions funded by the federal...
RPJ congratulates client Cowboy Bear Ninja LLC, who partnered with OZY Media to produce a four-part series entitled Black Women OWN the Conversation! The show premieres on OWN TV this Saturday, August 24 at 10/9c. The four one-hour-long episodes feature “intimate conversations about important issues with honest opinions and surprising solutions...
By Larry Brocchini When my college-bound son asked me if the word “THE” could be trademarked, I wondered if my love for IP law had rubbed off on him. Turns out, his curiosity was driven by his passion for sports, not trademarks. Specifically, Ohio State University (an institution my son...
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On July 24, 2019, RPJ Partner Helen D. (“Heidi”) Reavis gave a presentation entitled “#MeToo Today” to Columbia University Law School’s U.S. Business Law program open to foreign lawyers and MBA graduate students. Ms. Reavis spoke to the students on the historical context in which the #MeToo movement arose, as...
This is the second article in a series addressing the newly proposed Title IX regulations, published by the U.S. Department of Education on November 16, 2018, intended to address institutional procedures for investigating and resolving complaints of sexual harassment and sexual assault in educational institutions funded by the federal government....
Earlier this month, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the “PTO”) quietly announced a new rule pertaining to all trademark applicants, registrants, and parties to trademark proceedings whose permanent legal residence or principal place of business is outside the United States. Commencing as of August 3, 2019, when the...
Thirty years ago, mediation—settlement negotiations guided and supervised by a third party neutral—was something of an alien concept for New York civil litigators. We remember many conversations dismissing participation in early mediation of a case as a sign of weakness or simply as an opportunity for free discovery. Today, however,...
A licensor of copyrighted software is often faced with two potential pathways for a claim that the copyrighted material was misappropriated: (1) a claim under the Copyright Act or (2) a claim for breach of the licensing agreement. A recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second...