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UpCounsel Provides False Information on Design Patents

September 1, 2021 Griffin Klema One comment

Rely on UpCounsel.com to your detriment. The web is full of poor, and sometimes completely false, information. I recently came across a site that has been popping up in the top results when I’m searching for certain legal information: UpCounsel.com. These sites are usually just portals to hiring an attorney,

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Credit Card Fees and Florida Statute 501.0117

April 9, 2019 Griffin Klema One comment
credit cards

After the Florida Bar changed its rule on credit card fees, an attorney reached out to me still worried about whether lawyers in Florida could lawfully pass on the costs associated with accepting plastic. His concern stemmed from one of Florida’s consumer laws—a “no surcharge” law—that purported to prevent nearly

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Miami-Dade Summons Fillable Form

March 20, 2019 Griffin Klema 4 comments

You know what’s annoying? Finding a form online that isn’t fillable. You know what’s even more annoying? Having a form with additional pages that require re-entering the same information from the first page multiple times! Well, the Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts has just such a form for a civil court

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Griffin Klema Quoted in Florida Bar News on Credit Card Fees

January 15, 2019 Griffin Klema Leave a comment
credit cards

Attorney Griffin Klema has been quoted in the Florida Bar News on the Florida Supreme Court’s recent approval of an ethics rule change allowing lawyers to pass along credit card fees to judgment debtors and parties entering into settlement agreements. I am pleased that Floridians now have greater freedoms to

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Proposal for Settlement Calculator

October 25, 2018 Griffin Klema Leave a comment
PFS calculator

Calculating Statutory Settlement Offers Trying to figure out what an opposing party would have to get in a judgment to beat your proposal for settlement? Want to make an offer of judgment under Florida’s statute (Section 768.79) and need to calculate the amount? The math seems pretty straightforward, but in

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Suing for patent infringement outside the U.S.

June 22, 2018 Griffin Klema Leave a comment

The Supreme Court opens the door for collecting lost profits and royalties on patent infringement that occurs beyond U.S. borders. What if you have a U.S. patent, and a competitor makes some of the parts to your patented product in the U.S., but assembles them outside the U.S., say in

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Trademark Registration as Defensive Asset

April 10, 2018 Griffin Klema One comment
Registered Trademark Pie Shield

Can you use a trademark as a defensive shield to protect yourself and your business, besides using it to enforce your brand? Most people think of a trademark as a weapon to prevent a competitor from stealing their customers, ripping off their brand, and taking marketshare. True, that’s the primary

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Florida Bar Ethics Committee Proposes Change to Credit Card Acceptance Fees

January 31, 2018 Griffin Klema 6 comments

[bctt tweet=”Fla. Bar proposes change to ethics rule on credit card fees. Rule 4-1.5(h) ” username=”KlemaLaw”] Recently I felt compelled to see if I could have an impact on all Florida attorneys and their practice. Currently, the ethics rules prohibit lawyers from charging a losing party (or their client) the

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No Trade Secret for Uber’s Data in Government License

January 12, 2018 Griffin Klema Leave a comment
Uber vs. Yellow Cab

No Trade Secret Protection for Uber’s Rider Data On January 10, 2018, the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeals held that rideshare company Uber (through its subsidiary Raiser LLC), could not claim trade secret protection to prevent the disclosure of its rider data. The case resulted from traditional taxicab company,

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Trademark Duration, Renewal, and Section 8 Affidavit

December 13, 2017 Griffin Klema One comment
Trademark clock

How long does a trademark last? What do you need to do to keep your trademark? Here is some insight into the life of a trademark, how long it lasts, and renewal process and deadlines. So you have a trademark, are using the “circle-R” to show it off, and now

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