Attorney Robert Luce announced the launching of a new blog relating to traumatic brain injury, or TBI. The blog aims to improve the general understanding of the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of serious brain injuries.
The Vermont House and Senate have approved a first-in-the-nation bill that provides a legal tool for Vermont companies who face extortionate claims of patent infringement from “patent trolls.” DRM lawyers Peter Kunin and Eric Poehlmann were instrumental in developing the legal approach that is codified in the new legislation.
Podcast
Burlington attorney Kimberly K. Hayden was the featured guest on the Nature of BusinessTM radio program, hosted by founder Chrissy Coughlin, on August 8. Hayden discussed DRM’s growing renewable energy practice and briefly described the regional and national energy landscapes.
Webinar
This webinar focuses on basic principles and current issues involving domain name, keyword and other trademark violations and how they can be enforced in the online context, including cybersquatting and typosquatting, the ICANN Uniform Dispute Resolution Procedure, the Federal Anti-Cybersquatting Protection Act and the new Generic Top Level (gTLD) Domain Name program.
Gov. Peter Shumlin has signed a bill that will make the practice of patent trolling punishable under Vermont law as an act of bad faith. The legal approach was developed by DRM attorneys Peter Kunin and Eric Poehlmann.
DRM attorney Robert Luce visited a Middlebury courtroom last week with representatives of the Brain Injury Association of Vermont (BIAVT) to provide guidance and training to criminal justice professionals in Addison County on how to work most effectively with defendants with traumatic brain injury.
The Trusts and Estates Group at DRM provides an update on the consequences of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 for estate, gift and generation-skipping taxes.
Taking the Road Not Taken: Vermont’s Health Benefit Exchange and the Green Mountain State’s Journey to Single Payer Healthcare, an article by DRM attorneys Elizabeth R. Wohl and Paul Andrew (Drew) Kervick, was published in the August 24 issue of Health Lawyers Weekly. A publication of the American Health Lawyers Association, the newsletter is distributed to 11,000 AHLA members.
Attorney Elizabeth Wohl addressed best practice for mandatory compliance programs for the nursing home, residential care home and assisted living facility members of the Vermont Health Care Association
Patent attorney Thomas D. Kohler, in collaboration with CITEC Business Solutions, will provide a workshop on patent basics and intellectual property strategy for new product ideas on October 29 and 30, 2012 in Potsdam and Watertown, N.Y. The workshop is designed to assist North Country business leaders in developing skills that are essential in today’s dynamic economic environment.
