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Important Announcement from the Unified Court System:
by evansfox | Mar 16, 2020 | General Business
Memorandum to All Judicial and Non-Judicial Personnel of the Unified Court System Coronavirus - Procedures to Reduce Courthouse Traffic As part of our ongoing efforts to reduce courthouse traffic to combat spread of the coronavirus and protect the health and safety of...
A New Augmented Reality App Offers a Full-Bodied Experience For Wine Drinkers
by evansfox | Feb 27, 2020 | General Business, Restaurants & Bar, Tips For the Entrepreneur, Wineries
In the past few years, journalists have been passive aggressively blaming millennials for killing everything from cereal to chain restaurants to department stores. Wine may be just out of reach of money conscious millennials. Due to beer and liquor being cheaper...
Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour
by evansfox | Feb 25, 2020 | Brewery & Cidery, General Business, Restaurants & Bar, Tips For the Entrepreneur
Shakespeare first wrote about “happy hour” in 1599 in King Henry V. While his mention of a “happy hour” didn’t coincide with bellying up to a bar for a two for one special at the local pub for bards, the “happy hour” term for drinking came from Prohibition era...
A Sound Legal Strategy Can Protect Board Game Creators From Dicey Situations
by evansfox | Feb 12, 2020 | General Business, Tips For the Entrepreneur
Creating a board game can be a massive undertaking. From the initial idea to funding to research and development to test runs, you will spend hundreds of hours making sure you have the perfect game. To protect your investment in that time and energy,...
Cutting Corners on Student Loan Applications Can Be More Costly Than College Tuition
by evansfox | Feb 3, 2020 | Government, TJLF in the Community, Uncategorized
Like us, many of you have children preparing for college. The excitement can be tempered by the cost of tuition and other related costs. As much as it seems easy and harmless to bend the rules with student financial aid applications, do not do it. Fraud on...
Now Accepting Online Payments
by evansfox | Feb 1, 2020 | Firm News Archives
Evans Fox LLP is pleased to announce that we have implemented an alternative payment system after 21 years of counseling for what matters most. Starting February 1st, 2020, you will now be able to pay your statement online using LawPay. LawPay is a leading provider of...
Don’t be Crushed by the Wave of Copycats, Protect Your Trade Dress
by evansfox | Jan 30, 2020 | General Business, Tips For the Entrepreneur
Apple and Hollister stores are so recognizable to customers from the entrance design that they don’t even need to look up at the sign to locate the store. That’s branding at its best! Do you have a distinctive and recognizable retail store layout? Is the...
UBER EATS ANNOUNCED BIG CHANGES: WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR ROCHESTER AND BUFFALO?
by evansfox | Jan 27, 2020 | General Business, Restaurants & Bar, Tips For the Entrepreneur
At the close of 2019, Uber Eats announced that it will concentrate its services in high performing markets. If it is not the first or second most-used delivery service in a market, it plans to exit that market within a year and a half (by 2021). This will prevent its...
Meanwhile, In Canada.
by evansfox | Jan 23, 2020 | Trademark
For better or for worse, Canada has been hitting the trademark newswire in 2019. On June 17, 2019, a new Trademark Act took effect in Canada. The changes had a significant impact on the Canadian trademark laws, aligning them with the U.S. and Europe. Most...
Do Not Skip A Beat When Filing Patents
by evansfox | Jan 20, 2020 | Patent
Dr. Joseph Wiesel is pioneer cardiologist who, starting in 1999, filed five patent applications associated with detecting atrial fibrillation. In a 2006 patent, Dr. Wiesel described a method to detect atrial fibrillation (AFib) that used a light source that...
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