While Joe Coker crooned, “[y]ou can leave your hat on,” during the titillating movie “9 ½ Weeks,” no one could have predicted in 1986 that in 2020, lovers might be singing, “you can leave your mask on.” While we make this comment tongue in cheek, there is a...
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Amazon’s Pricing Policy Is Suppressing the Buy Box
Earlier this year, Amazon implemented a new pricing policy that is causing many sellers fits. Titled the “Amazon Marketplace Fair Pricing Policy,” the new policy seeks to provide shoppers with the lowest prices possible. To do so, Amazon now regularly monitors prices...
Zoombombing: Idle Hands and the Devil’s Keyboard
With campuses shuttered across the country, students are stuck completing their spring semesters through online distance learning with Zoom or other video conferencing technology. Even with the best professors, this online-only set up can be mind-numbing,...
COVID-19 and Intellectual Property
By David Posteraro As with all aspects of daily life, COVID-19 coronavirus has not spared intellectual property (IP). Neither has it brought it to a halt. As most patent, trademark and copyright filings and prosecutions are done online, and most IP attorneys –...
Personal Protective Equipment Needed: Donations Requested
By Kate Hickner Critical Need for Ohio's Health Care Providers & First Responders As many of you are aware, according to Director of the Ohio Department of Health, Dr. Amy Acton, the amount of personal protective equipment (PPE) that Ohio will receive from the...
The Domestic Relations Courts’ Adjusted Protocols in Response to COVID-19: What Lawyers and Litigants Can Expect
In light of the rapid rise of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) throughout all corners of the world in recent months, all experts now appear to agree that “social distancing” is critical to stemming the continued spread of the disease and, ultimately, saving...
Don’t Kiss With COVID-19!
By now you may have seen the video of college students on Spring Break, cramming together on Florida’s beaches while drinking and partying under the mantra “If I get corona, I get corona.” Aside from this attitude having potentially disastrous consequences for...
Spousal and Child Support During the COVID-19 Economy
It seems that every day, we receive more and more discouraging news regarding the economy as a result of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The markets have suffered substantial losses and many restaurants, bars and other businesses across the country have closed....
What Title IX and Coronavirus Have to Do With Each Other
By Susan Stone, Kristina Supler & Melissa Yasinow As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the country, colleges and universities are shutting down campuses and moving to online classes, possibly for the rest of the academic year. Given these events, students may...
Shop Safe Act Would Impose Liability on E-commerce Marketplaces for Sale of Counterfeit Goods
Four House members recently co-sponsored proposed legislation, the Shop Safe Act of 2020, that would hold companies like Amazon, eBay and other e-commerce websites liable for counterfeit goods sold on their marketplaces. This comes on the heels of a recent report from...