A USPTO office action is a letter from the trademark examining attorney at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that lists the legal problems standing between your application and …
READ MORE →You agreed with a customer, vendor, or business partner to change a deal, by phone, in an email thread, or simply by how you both performed, and now the other side points to the clause saying every …
READ MORE →In Minnesota, a trustee, a beneficiary, or another interested person can ask the district court to decide what a trust means by filing a petition under Minn. Stat. § 501C.0202. The court can construe …
READ MORE →In Minnesota, the time to contest a will or a trust depends on which document you are challenging and on what has already happened, such as informal probate of the will, a court order after a hearing, …
READ MORE →A Minnesota business hiring its first employee needs a Minnesota withholding account, an unemployment insurance account, workers’ compensation insurance, a signed written notice of pay terms at the …
READ MORE →When a customer, distributor, or national retailer sends you its vendor or supply agreement, the insurance section tells you which coverage to buy, whom it must protect, and what proof you must …
READ MORE →Minnesota’s junk fee law requires the price you advertise, display, or offer for goods or services to include every mandatory fee or surcharge. You may still charge the fee; what changes is where it …
READ MORE →A Minnesota business may ban guns from its building, either with a sign that meets the statute’s exact requirements or by telling the person directly, and it may restrict employees from carrying guns …
READ MORE →A no-contest clause in a Minnesota will cannot be enforced against a beneficiary who had probable cause to bring the challenge, under Minn. Stat. § 524.2-517. A trust created outside a will has no …
READ MORE →Outside general counsel is an outside lawyer your company keeps on an ongoing basis to handle its routine legal work, instead of hiring a new lawyer for each problem. No Minnesota statute defines the …
READ MORE →A Minnesota court may remove a trustee for a serious breach of trust or on three other grounds listed in Minn. Stat. § 501C.0706, and the settlor, a cotrustee, or a beneficiary may ask it to. The …
READ MORE →When a Minnesota principal ends an independent sales rep’s contract, or the rep resigns, two Minnesota statutes decide the minimum the rep keeps and when it must be paid. The rep agreement decides …
READ MORE →Most bad reviews of a Minnesota medical or dental practice should get a short, professional reply and nothing more. A review that is fake (written by someone who was never a patient, including a …
READ MORE →A Minnesota staffing firm, or any other business “acting directly or indirectly as an employer or manager for work contracted or requested by a customer,” can no longer stop that customer from hiring …
READ MORE →Answer every patient review the same way: thank the reviewer, describe your practice’s standards in general terms, and invite them to contact the office, without confirming that the person is a …
READ MORE →Selling a Minnesota medical, dental, or accounting practice is mostly an ordinary business sale, with four additions: who may own the practice after closing, what happens to patient or client records, …
READ MORE →When a Minnesota company’s CPA, tax preparer, or financial adviser makes an error that costs the company money, the company can recover if it proves the professional owed it a duty, breached the …
READ MORE →A Minnesota business whose trade secret has been taken can ask a court for six kinds of relief: an order stopping use of the secret, an order letting use continue only for a royalty, an order …
READ MORE →When your largest customer asks for net-60 or net-90 terms, it is asking you to finance its purchases with your working capital. The payment period is a contract term you can negotiate, price, and …
READ MORE →If you sell to a national retailer such as Target, Best Buy, or Walmart, the retailer may ask you to pay for shelf space, fund its promotions, and share its advertising costs. Whether you owe those …
READ MORE →If a national retailer is sued over your product and tenders the claim to you, formally demanding that you defend it and cover its loss, your vendor agreement’s defense and indemnity terms decide …
READ MORE →A Minnesota company ended a new employee’s employment within weeks of hiring. Days later, the employee filed a charge of discrimination and retaliation with a government agency, and the employee’s …
READ MORE →Two owners of a Minnesota company split the business under a written separation agreement. About a month later, the departing owner’s lawyer sent a demand letter. It claimed the company had withheld …
READ MORE →A Minnesota LLC bought out one of its founding owners and paid most of the price over time under a promissory note. The founder stayed on as an employee during a transition. The buyout’s separation …
READ MORE →If a national retailer such as Target or Walmart is ending your vendor relationship, it can usually do so on the notice your vendor agreement requires, but the exit does not erase what it still owes …
READ MORE →An employee tells you a medical condition is making part of the job hard and asks for a change: a different schedule, a chance to sit, permission to work from home. Under Minnesota employment law, …
READ MORE →When the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry (“DLI”) opens a wage investigation, it can inspect your workplace during reasonable office hours, demand payroll and time records within the time it …
READ MORE →To sell alcohol in Minnesota, a bar, restaurant, brewery taproom, or event venue needs a retail license from its city or county that fits what it pours and where it pours it. Unless the business …
READ MORE →You have found the person you want to hire, and that person works for a competitor. You can make the hire; Minnesota law decides how much risk comes with it. Three questions set that risk: whether the …
READ MORE →If you sell to a national retailer such as Target, Best Buy, or Walmart, the payment that arrives is often smaller than your invoice. The gap is deductions: compliance chargebacks, shortage and …
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