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What You Need to Know about Getting Someone’s Trademark Canceled
Is it possible to cancel a U.S. trademark registration owned by someone else? Yes. But there are rules and procedures that guide the process. Namely, you have to file a petition to cancel. Petitions to Cancel are filed with the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board...
Marks Gray Forms Comprehensive Business Advisory Team
Marks Gray, one of Jacksonville’s oldest and most respected law firms practicing business law, announces it has launched a comprehensive business advisory team that combines all legal counsel and services that businesses need arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic and...
New Decision Means You Can Temporarily Use Form I-797 EAD Approval for Form I-9 Verification
Qualifying Form I-797s must include a notice date on or after 12/1/19 through 8/20/20. Additionally, this form must be informing of Approval of an Application for EAD (Form I-765) until 12/1/20. Employees may use the EAD Approval Notice to establish employment...
HR Alert: There Is an Additional Extension of the Flexibility of Virtual Verification for Form I-9
DHS and ICE recently announced another extension of the flexibility of virtual verification to comply with the requirements of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. Previously, the deadline for flexible verification was set to expire on August 18. However,...
USCIS Conducts an Unprecedented 2nd H-1B Cap Lottery: What It Means for You
On August 14, 2020, without notice or warning, USCIS conducted an unprecedented second H-1B cap lottery for FY2021. Here’s what made the second lottery possible. After the initial lottery, certain employers chose not to file some of their selected H-1B cap...
Anything and Everything Is U
Michael Moore is a future-thinking artist and designer who believes that art not only surrounds us and is a cornerstone of all cultures, but that it helps to improve our understanding of different peoples as well. Because of this, he thinks it should be part of...
A Client’s Note of Appreciation Regarding an Approval
H-1B RFE approval “Thank you for all the help, effort and planning involved in responding to my H1B RFE. I am extremely happy that the end result worked out great to our benefit. I understand the efforts involved and wanted to let you know how much it means...
Best Practices for Photos on Your Website
Let’s say you start a business. Naturally, you decide you need a website to market your services or products. Maybe you choose to build the website yourself using a template. Or you hire a third party to create a customized website. In either scenario, you are going...