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ATTORNEYS FEES [5 records]

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Record 1 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
  • Courts
  • Legal System
DEF

A court's last action that settles the rights of the parties and disposes of all issues in controversy, except for the award of costs(and, sometimes, attorney's fees) and enforcement of the judgment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
  • Tribunaux
  • Théorie du droit

Spanish

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Record 2 2017-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Patents (Law)
  • Copyright, Patent and Trademark Law
CONT

Basically, registering a copyright creates a public record of the creation of the work. This public record may be usable as prima facie evidence in a court case involving copyright infringement. Further, more monetary damages are awarded to the registered copyright in a court action--statutory damages, attorney's fees, actual damages and profits--as compared to only actual damages and profits in the case of the unregistered copyright.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Brevets d'invention (Droit)
  • Propriété industrielle et intellectuelle
CONT

Lorsque le droit d'auteur enregistré concerne la prestation d'un artiste-interprète, l'œuvre devrait être décrite comme une «prestation d'artiste-interprète».

Spanish

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Record 3 2014-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)
  • Courts
CONT

It is wholly inappropriate for the district court to rely on its overturned decision to support the denial of Moon's petition for attorney's fees in the instant case.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
  • Tribunaux
CONT

La décision infirmée accordait une pension provisoire en incluant par erreur des rentrées de capital dans le revenu de l'époux. La pension provisoire a ainsi été réduite de 1750 $ à 1350 $.

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trademarks (Law)
  • Trade
  • Commercial Law
CONT

To adopt a trademark, a thorough search should be done to determine that nobody has already taken that idea, then an application should be filed with the trademark office.

CONT

If you adopt a mark that is confusingly similar to an existing mark, then you may be liable for trademark infringement, with the possible consequences ranging from having to give up all use of your mark, to having to pay treble damages, attorneys fees, court costs, and prejudgment interest.

OBS

The general term "mark" is often used in texts as an elliptical variant of "trademark."

OBS

... Trademarks that describe the ingredients, qualities, features, purpose or characteristics of a product or service. These marks are not inherently distinctive, and thus do not receive trademark protection unless they acquire distinctiveness through secondary meaning.

Key term(s)
  • adopt a trade-mark
  • adopt a trade mark

French

Domaine(s)
  • Marques de commerce (Droit)
  • Commerce
  • Droit commercial
CONT

[...] avant d'adopter une marque de commerce, une recherche complète devrait être effectuée afin de s'assurer que la marque proposée ne prête pas à confusion avec une autre marque de commerce ou avec un nom commercial.

CONT

Il est indispensable de procéder à des recherches d'antériorité avant d'adopter une marque.

Spanish

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Record 5 2003-09-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Security
  • Stock Exchange
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

The revised statute increases the amount required to be tendered by a debtor for redemption of collateral to include attorneys’ fees and legal expenses incurred by the secured party(but only if provided for in a written agreement with the secured party).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des sûretés
  • Bourse
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)

Spanish

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