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Kwan T. Loh, Counsel, Smart & Biggar LLP, Barrister and Solicitor Trademark Agent, and Reagan Seidler, Associate, Smart & Biggar LLP, Barrister and Solicitor

This Quick Overview addresses when and how to oppose a trademark application in Canada. Those familiar with the process in the United States will find it much the same.

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Interest Area: Intellectual Property
Region: Canada
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, New to In-House
Joseph Simone, Partner, and Christopher Smith, Partner, Simone Intellectual Property Services
4 pages

This article provides a holistic overview of the need to create and register trademarks in the Greater China region. It also poses questions that should be considered before developing the trademarks, as well as exploring the various linguistic considerations that should be taken into account, due to the numerous oral dialects used through China.

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Interest Area: Intellectual Property
Region: China
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, New to In-House
By Sumi Trombley, Senior Legal Operations Consultant, UpLevel Ops
3 pages

In-house legal departments and their client business organizations have felt the excruciating pain of highly administrative contracting processes as the COVID-19 pandemic forced businesses into remote working situations. The first reaction many organizations have is "HELP! Get me a contract lifecycle management system." The pain felt across the organization may mean priority for budget, so it seems like a no-brainer. However, when organizations faced the challenge of implementing these tools, they found that the real morass was their approvals process. This article is about recommendations to streamline your organization's approval process for a more successful technology implementation.

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Interest Area: Law Department Management
Audience: Legal Operations
Emily Morgan, Associate Director, Clare Morton, Associate Director, Kathryn Fletcher, Director, and James Lewry, Director, from Control Risks

In this Top Ten, in-house counsel can learn ten steps that your business can take to measure, mitigate, and monitor social risks across operations and supply chains.

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Interest Area: Commercial and Contracts
Region: Middle East, United Arab Emirates, Global
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, New to In-House, CLO / GC
Rob Potter and Sarah Anderson – Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

This Quick Overview is intended to demystify "non-fungible tokens" (NFTs) at a broad level, introduce the concept and functionality to non-tech counsel, and provide a practical approach to addressing intellectual-property issues and other legal concerns that may arise in connection with NFTs.

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Interest Area: Intellectual Property
Region: United States
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, New to In-House, CLO / GC
Michelle Eastwell, Partner, Hall & Wilcox
2 pages

Listed entities should familiarise themselves with the recent changes ASX has made to Listing Rules and Guidance Notes, particularly in relation to disclosure and capital raising.

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Region: Australia
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career
Anne MacNamara, Partner, Matthew Curll, Partner, Adrian Verdnik, Partner, Grace Mitsioulis, and Ashlee Johnson, Wilcox & Hall
2 pages

Australian insurers, brokers and other entities involved at the various stages of insurance claims handling need to consider the impact of the claims handling reform by reviewing all steps in their claims procedures for each relevant insurance product. In this article, the impacts of those reforms are explained.

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Interest Area: Insurance
Region: Australia
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career
Vince Battaglia, Partner, and Nina Mao, Hall & Wilcox
2 pages

This article will highlight some key issues of the new Design and Distribution Obligations (DDO) regime you need to be aware of. In this article, we look at some of the hidden complexities in the new regime.

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Region: Australia
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career
Vince Battaglia, Partner, Adrian Verdnik, Partner, and Nina Mao, Hall & Wilcox
2 pages

The new design and distribution obligations (DDO) regime in Australia might have some surprising findings that you're not used to in your regular practice. This piece in a series of articles, we will highlight some key issues you and your team may need to be aware of.

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Region: Australia
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career
Meg Lee, Partner, Hall & Wilcox
4 pages

A new era in environmental law in Victoria will be introduced when significant amendments to the Environment Protection Act 2017 come into force on 1 July 2021. It heralds a renewed focus on risk identification and management and new obligations to minimise impacts on human health as well as the environment.

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Interest Area: Environmental
Region: Australia
Audience: Small Law Departments, Large Law Departments
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