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DPS Legal Counsel protects the business, regulatory, contract, transactional, intellectual property, compliance, and tax interests of health practices and small businesses from initial formation through founder retirement and practice/business succession
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Today’s Tennessee Trademark Update
Thanks for reading DPS Legal Counsel's Daily Tennessee Trademark Report for Saturday, July 10, 2021. All of the following information was obtained by a search of the USPTO's TESS database. So far in July, there have been 70 trademarks filed with the USPTO by Tennessee...
Today’s Tennessee Trademark Update
So far, there have been 456 trademark applications filed in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Tennessee businesses in the month of June 2021. Here are the number of filings in each of the twenty largest cities in Tennessee so far in June 2021: Nashville - 131...
What Happens to a Tennessee Single-Member LLC when the Sole Member Dies?
Benjamin Franklin is justifiably famous for many things, but one of them is this quotation: "In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." Whether or not that is precisely true (I can think of a few other things that are certain in this...
The Tennessee Public Participation Act and Defamation Lawsuits Arising from Online Reviews
On Friday, June 18, 2021, the Tennessee Court of Appeals published an opinion in a case entitled "Nandigam Neurology, PLC v. Beavers." This is an important case for all businesses and professional practices, including medical practices, to know about as it involves...
The Office for Civil Rights’ Right to Access Initiative – A Potential Landmine for Medical Practices
In 2019, the Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that it was going to be pursuing an enforcement priority of protecting a patient's right under HIPAA's Privacy Rule to receive a copy of the patient's medical records...