We need to increase transparency in the litigation process, starting
with demand letters and patent ownership; we need to control the costs of litigation by, when appropriate, shifting fees and limiting expensive discovery; we need better programs for challenging bad patents; and we need to protect end - users and consumers.
Most of these cases never get to a court,» says Adi Kamdar, a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation: «We wanted to shine a light on what was really going on
with demand letters,» he adds.
She noted that small businesses are being hit
with demand letters for using ordinary office equipment.
These lawsuits are sometimes filed by lawyers who recruit clients to blanket entire city blocks of businesses
with demand letters posing an ultimatum to either pay a quick settlement or face the threat of an ADA lawsuit.
After the claim is reviewed and accepted by the debt collection service, the recovery process begins
with a demand letter being sent to the debtor and an acknowledgement letter being sent to the client (creditor who enlisted the collection service).
You may want to include a copy of the police report
with your demand letter, or show it to a personal injury lawyer if you are considering filing a personal injury lawsuit.
Maintain original copies of the information send copies along
with your demand letter to the insurer.
The foreclosure begins
with a demand letter, which offers the property - owner a very short time - frame in which to pay out the mortgage.
Not exact matches
If the salesperson claims his or her offering is exempt from the FTC requirements,
demand to see an opinion
letter from counsel before dealing
with them any further.
In a deft synthesis of escapism and dreadful reality — like successfully mixing ice cream
with Buckley's cough syrup — an unknown sports sophisticate and political junkie named Paul Kaplan (an Atlanta Braves fan, but that's not a crime) sent a
letter to his congressman to protest the defeat of his baseball team in the National League playoffs and
demand they be crowned the winners anyway.
Together, they came up
with a
letter to Mr. Kalanick that listed four
demands, the foremost being his resignation.
On January 2, 2013, Shkreli sent a
demand letter to Doe accusing him of reneging on his agreement to continue to work
with Shkreli in exchange for receiving Fearnow Shares.
The renegotiation process he initiated —
with a
letter detailing four
demands — in November will be cause for worry for investors and political leaders.
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«The persistent U.S. deficit in goods trade
with Canada and Mexico
demands that this administration take swift action to revise the relationship to reflect and respond to 21st - century challenges,» read the
letter, signed by Stephen Vaughn, the acting United States trade representative.
In a
letter sent to the Justice Department on Friday, she
demanded the agency detail any conversations it's had
with Trump or other White House officials about AT&T, Time Warner and CNN.
[We specifically
demand that Gawker Media and its employees] immediately provide us
with the name and all contact information for the unnamed «tipster» of the Story, so that we can serve that person
with an immediate cease and desist
letter to stop the spread of the false Story.
The Duke, Bassanio, and Antonio» once the threat is past» are all willing to allow a chagrined Shylock to walk away
with his money; it is the iron - willed Portia who
demands that he be held to the strict
letter of the law, just as he himself has insisted.
Paul's
letter attempts to rise above the fray, saying that what makes us indispensable to one another, and what distinguishes Christians from the wider world, is not what we eat, or our ability to win a theological debate, or our moral superiority, or the utility of our practices, but our baptism, our unity in the gospel which
demands that we remain
with one another precisely in those places where we disagree.
The
Letter to the Colossians speaks of Christ's redemptive work as «having canceled the bond which stood against us
with its legal
demands; this he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
If Mr. Easterly had let his imagination range beyond governments and government policies, he might have left his readers
with a hope and sense of responsibility that goes beyond writing a
letter to Congress
demanding that, in exchange for the next ten billion dollars, programs of massive ineffectiveness be made effective.
Luther wrote to Jonas: «A
letter of the Pope is circulating which the brethren have sent to Veit Dietrich from Venice... written in an absolutely arrogant and violent tone... to the Emperor... the Pope
with much and great and openly Italian arrogance
demands... why the Emperor dares to permit and promise colloquies about religion since it is not the Emperor's place to teach but rather to listen.»
«Having received the No Objection
Letter from the FDA, SweeGen and our valued distribution partner Ingredion are now able to support food and beverage manufacturers in the US as they work to meet consumer
demand for reduced - and no - sugar products made
with our new, high - purity, great - tasting stevia sweetener,» said Katharina Pueller, director, natural sweetener business of SweeGen.
This usually means a plan that allows them to have an ongoing relationship
with you through photos and
letters and doesn't make unreasonable
demands on them as to how they should raise the child.
Nicola Sturgeon's joined in the
letter writing craze among politicians this week
with her missive
demanding talks on a second Scottish independence referendum delivered to Downing Street today.
At an August 3 press conference, Schneiderman announced that his office issued cease - and - desist
letters to seven companies,
with the
letters demanding that the companies stop advertising the products as «Zika - protective» or «Zika - preventive.»
It's outrageous and unacceptable for the Governor to
demand that the Regents come up
with an entirely new teacher evaluation system in a span of only three months,» Samuels writes in the
letter.
In recent days Governor Andrew Cuomo has publicly engaged two of the massive transportation agencies he controls on hot button topics,
demanding in an open
letter that the MTA act to address a recent spike in sexual assaults reported as occurring on the New York City subway system and
demanding answers from the Port Authority on a report that NYPD officials ensnared in a corruption investigation arranged for a special escort,
with a lane closure, through the Lincoln Tunnel.
The legislature is not being inundated
with calls and
letters from the public
demanding enactment of her proposal.»
City Council Watch has previously covered the nexus of Latino politicians, including Espaillat, Melissa Mark - Viverito, and Julissa Ferreras, all of whom in apparent conjunction
with their political consultant MirRam Group, wrote
letters demanding federal action on Herbalife.
«The violation on Dec. 3, 2012 was not issued to us... nor were we ever notified or made aware that such a violation had been issued,» Smith said in an April 9
letter to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who had written Smith first under the mistaken impression that he was the owner of Hotel Indigo,
demanding he comply
with city regulations.
Olatunji said the government only agreed to meet
with the association two Fridays ago where the association seized the opportunity to X-ray its plights and
demands as contained in previous
letters.
And the community has begun to respond,
with letters pouring in from a variety of important players
demanding that a new position be funded to ensure that Kawamoto remains the keystone of this painstakingly built coalition — what New Paltz Police Department chief Joseph Snyder terms «the captain of the ship.»
In fact, Assemblyman Michael Miller wrote a
letter to Ms. Quinn in September, 2012 (and I am still waiting to see it, despite multiple requests), supposedly questioning the jurisdiction of the City Council
with regard to their failure to
demand a completed investigation by the Department of Investigations (that DOI investigators and officials initiated in May, 1993, but failed to complete), and Ms. Quinn's own role to initiate her own, independent investigation, as her August, 2006
letter clearly states.
With the threat of strike looming, a large coalition of New York Democrats issued a
letter demanding a fair contract for Macy's retail workers.
Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan this week sent a
letter to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio
demanding he comply
with the requirement his administration detail how the city is spending its education funds.
The advocates tried to deliver a
letter containing their
demands to Cuomo at his Manhattan office yesterday, but since he wasn't there (he was in Albany and Westchester,
with no public schedule), they traveled north to make a second attempt at the Capitol.
The broadside from the veteran europhile minister comes as David Cameron tries to face down a significant challenge on his eurosceptic flank,
with a
letter from 95 Tory MPs
demanding parliament be given a vote on all EU laws.
«Whilst I have attempted at all times to be meticulous
with rules and standards, I accept community annoyance, even anger,
with politicians» entitlements
demands a response,» she said in the
letter.
Some members of the nPDP being led by a former National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Kawu Baraje and a former governor of Osun State, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, had written a
letter to President Buhari,
demanding an urgent meeting
with him.
Past prime ministers know his power: it was good to see Gordon Brown weigh in yesterday
with a
letter to the culture secretary
demanding the takeover be delayed until after the second part of the Leveson inquiry is carried out into corruption of the police and officials at Murdoch - owned newspapers.
With the threat of strike looming, a large coalition of New York Democrats issued a
letter on Wednesday
demanding a fair contract for Macy's retail workers.
David Cameron appears unruffled after Tory eurosceptics bared their teeth
with a
letter demanding a referendum on Britain's relationship
with Europe.
Mr Brown had sent a
letter of his own to Cabinet members informing them complying
with Sir Thomas»
demands «does not bring into question their conduct».
In 2015, his office issued a
letter, in conjunction
with over 100 elected officials from across the nation,
demanding Congress enact legislation that would allow the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to enter bankruptcy.
I have sent a
letter to Metro - North
demanding they work
with NJT to identify another way for NJT to meet its PTC deadlines.
My file is filled
with many award
letters since fate brought me into my current assignment as an aide to a state's chief executive officer and I recall on one occasion I
demanded to know how did I qualify for a particular award I was nominated for.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R.) sent a
letter to former Rep. Blake Farenthold (R., Texas) Tuesday
demanding the disgraced congressman «cover all the costs» associated
with the special election to fill his seat.
Shelley Winters plays the concierge, a woman
with little time for the others occupants; veteran Hollywood actor Melyyn Douglas is Monsieur Zy, the recalcitrant owner of the building who
demands that his tenants live as quietly as possible; other tenants include the shrewish M. Dioz (Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden, The King and Four Queens) who wages spiteful wars on those
with whom she has fallen into disagreement, and the meek mother (Lila Kedrova — The Kremlin
Letter) and her disabled daughter who become the focus of Dioz's vitriol.
And in a further gesture of joint female protest co-ordinated
with the American Time's Up group formed in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein allegations last autumn, 190 British and Irish actors — including Carey Mulligan, Kate Winslet, Claire Foy, Noma Dumezweni, Emma Thompson, Jodie Whittaker, Sophie Okonedo, Emma Watson and Saoirse Ronan — have signed an open
letter of intent, published in the Observer for the first time, and setting out their
demands for change.